Channel attached. We're running TSM on z/OS. With the level of utilization, though, it's getting to be expensive. We were looking to cut costs by moving the server to engines with flat pricing.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of David Boyes > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Linux on z and VTS == compatible at all? > > > What is the possibility of reliably running TSM server on Linux with > the > > backups going to our brand spanking new clustered TS7700? > > I couldn't find any literature supporting it. > > If it's channel-attached, then the probability is exactly > zero. TSM on Linux doesn't do channel-attached tape. If you > had TSM on z/OS -- or even the old TSM on VM server -- you > could drive it that way using DFSMS/VM RMM and use > server-to-server migration to get the TSM servers to work together. > > I don't know of anyone using it via FCP attached tape. The > generic SCSI changer commands don't seem to work very > reliably; the only SCSI VTS I have access to seems to hang > reliably when presented with SCSI changer commands. This > makes the PTBs unhappy, so I've stopped trying. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
