Re: VTL for IBM i

Hi Bruce...
For EMC Data Domain, we did not select it because the highest emulation it
can do is lto3 (used to)
Sorry no info on crossroads
Thanks

Br,
Welly
On Nov 23, 2015 10:06 PM, "Bruce Collins" <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks again guys for all the good words. If any of you have experience
with Crossroads Sphinx or EMC Data Domain I would appreciate any
experiences good or bad you have experienced. You can contact me offline if
you need too.

Thanks


Bruce “Hoss” Collins
George C Wallace Community College
Director, MIS
1141 Wallace Drive
Dothan, AL 36303
Phone 334-556-2447
1-800-543-2426, Ext. 2447
bcollins@xxxxxxxxxxx







On 11/16/15, 12:00 PM, "MIDRANGE-L on behalf of DrFranken" <
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Rob that is a Very good point! They both contain the words 'Tape'
and 'Virtual' but are very VERY different in usage, and nearly every
other way as well.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 11/16/2015 7:31 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I think we need to make sure that everyone knows that we are talking

about

a special appliance called a VTL or virtual tape library. And not a
virtual tape device like

CRTDEVTAP RSRCNAME(*VRT)...
Device description . . . . . . . . : VRTDEV
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . : *TAP

Device type . . . . . . . . . . . : 63B0
Device model . . . . . . . . . . . : 001
Resource name . . . . . . . . . . : TAPVRT01


Rob Berendt

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