Re: quadstor vtl with as400

There is some possibility for PCI passthrough on VMWare but i would not rely on this for that type of application
(this was one of the topics why we quickly ended testing with VMWare and used native hardware).

For backing up your VTL - quadstor (and other VTLs) can do replication to a second VTL or to an external Tape Library.

for sure - what is the use of a backup if if cannot be backed up? ;-)
-h

Am 19.03.2019 um 14:24 schrieb DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

First I did not think that that VMWare allowed direct access to hardware. So how do you make the FC adapter available to the VTL Software? Since it appears that's been done I must be wrong in this regard. Curious to know hot to that.

More importantly though this is the backup to IBM i, the computer most likely to contain exceptionally valuable data to your business. Backing it up is of paramount importance. In a disaster you need to be able to get that data back 'with the quickness'. Having to potentially rebuild storage of VMWare. Then VMWare. Then this VM. And finally, only then could you even BEGIN to start restoring IBM i..... I can't see how one of these in any virtualization layer would be a backup I could rely on.

And consider then that this VTL being on VMWare would need to be backed up itself or you wouldn't be able to restore IT! So you would need a backup of a backup! At the very least you would want it replicated off site.