Re: Move a tape drive resource between LPAR's ?

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I don't do it on a nightly basis but I manually do it via the HMC.  Some 
lpar's are Mimix or Domino replicas and only get backed up every other 
month.  I can live with manual for that.
Never tried the HMC automated scheduler.  I've heard that if you reboot 
your HMC the scheduler goes away.  Try that and see.  Repeat I don't use 
it and I'm going on hearsay.
Barsa Consulting had a product called APRM for Automated Partition 
Resource Management.  They open sourced it or something like that.
Apparently there are some api's you can execute from an lpar on the i to 
go tell the hmc or something to move the resource to the other lpar.

We have drives that are shared between multiple lpars and physical boxes 
nightly.  No vary off/on.  All connected at the same time via a fiber 
switch.  Each lpar has their own fiber card however.



Rob Berendt