On May 14, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote:
I wonder if anyone is attaching a LTO4 (Linear Tape Open,
Generation 4),
via FCP, to a z9 or z10 running zVM 5.4?
Yes, to SLES 10 SP 2 on both a z9 and z10 under zVM 5.4, via NPIV to
I10K SAN switch.
And if yes, are there any zVM utilities (DDR, SPXTAPE, etc) that
support
LTO4s?
Don't think so.
Or does zLINUX even support LTO4s?
Certainly does.
We're using them in an IBM ATL (3584 I believe is the type).
With a bit of development effort, or some penalty of network/memory/
CPU overhead (i.e. going the NFS route--which could use an internal
Guest LAN) you could certainly do CMS filesystem backups through--
well, *my* choice would be Bacula--a Linux guest to LTO tape.
Neale put together a minimalist Bacula client for CMS back in the
Bacula 1.3x days; with some work that could be ported forwards. I
think as he did it it only knew about minidisks rather than SFS though.
Adam
