Re: Move a tape drive to another partition

Glad you have your tape figured out. We use VIOS to virtualize that card.
We never have to move it to any of our multiple lpars of IBM i to use it.
Not only that but that one card connected to multiple drives in a
library. How? We put a SAN switch in between. Worked great! And, if
you have multiple drives in that library you can have multiple lpars
backing up at the same time.
We still have that fiber card, and the SAN. The multiple drive library
has been replaced by a Data Domain 2500 VTL. Now all the lpars can be
backed up to the numerous "drives" set up in the VTL. We actually have
the lpars doing parallel saves to four "drives" each.

And all these scenarios play well with BRMS.


Rob Berendt