Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-28 Thread Timothy Sipples
Bill Bishop wrote: >One issue that you may encounter with going to a new storage >system on a z9 processor is the speed of the ficon cards and >whether the new unit can z9 cards. I am not sure the new >Hitachi's can work with 4GB ficon. While Radoslaw Skorupka clarified that it's possible to

Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread Mike Schwab
I have used FDRPAS, TDMF which were all vendor compatible, and Dell z/OS Migrator which must have their hardware as the target. Most movement was done with the system running at full speed. The different software packages did require different software products to be down to SWAP their files.

Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread Ken Bloom
Hi. If you are interested in upgrading your dasd, you may want to consider the visara VI-8810. It’s rack mounted, SSD drives, compatible with all IBM OS and processors. Will certainly work with your Z9 Contact me offline and you can tell me what you require in terms of channels and

Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 8:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL Carmen Vitullo - Original Message

Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Grant Taylor" <023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 10:33:02 AM Subject: Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support On 6/26/20 9:18 AM

Re: [EXTERNAL] DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread R.S.
26, 2020 10:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support On 6/26/20 3:16 AM, R.S. wrote: 3. 18 months is close to half of typical service contract for new dasd array. Still we don't know how sure is 18 months - maybe it would be 3

Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/26/20 9:18 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: it's not that difficult and most vendor will provide a migration solution depending on your requirements . Do the vendors support migrating between vendors? Or is this vendor specific? some provide a tool to replicate the data, flip the switch

Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread R.S.
W dniu 26.06.2020 o 17:04, Grant Taylor pisze: On 6/26/20 3:16 AM, R.S. wrote: 3. 18 months is close to half of typical service contract for new dasd array. Still we don't know how sure is 18 months - maybe it would be 36 months? Even 12 months means the dasd array would have some residual

Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread Carmen Vitullo
- Original Message - From: "Grant Taylor" <023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 10:04:36 AM Subject: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support On 6/26/20 3:16 AM, R.S. wrote: > 3.

Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread Nightwatch RenBand
There are several OEM products such as FDR from Innovation, and CA, which can speedily migrate between different disk drive architectures. I think IBM utilities can do it as well, but my experience has been with the OEM's. In general, migration is easily solved. On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 8:04 AM

Re: [EXTERNAL] DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Grant Taylor Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 10:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support On 6/26/20 3:16 AM, R.S. wrote: > 3. 18 months is close to half of typi

DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/26/20 3:16 AM, R.S. wrote: 3. 18 months is close to half of typical service contract for new dasd array. Still we don't know how sure is 18 months - maybe it would be 36 months? Even 12 months means the dasd array would have some residual value. n00b questions: 1) Is it possible to