This is a Power 8 box running 7.4 with NO changes, other than the VTL a year ago.

I am not going to pay it. Makes no sense for what we are running.


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See the bulleted items at
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-control/5.4.12?topic=overview-virtual-storage-center
Do any of those sound familiar?
Are you or have you used IBM SAN products?
Are you or have you used products which have went through naming changes like "ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager", "Tivoli Storage Manager", "IBM Storage Protect", "IBM Spectrum Protect"? These are basically products used to perform saves of heterogeneous operating systems like PC's and many others to one server. Numerous reports are available listing who has been saved when, who hasn't been saved recently, etc. We use the current version of this. Some people used to use BRMS to save IBM i to such a beast. We never did. IBM is dropping the IBM i part.

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 12:57 PM (WalzCraft) Jerry Forss < JForss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All

IBM sent us a bill for $610 for IBM Virtual Storage Center Entry
Edition per Terabyte Annual SW Subscription & Support Renewal.

They said we purchased this in 2021. We have NO record of such an order.
When I ask IBM for documentation they basically say it's our problem
to figure out.

We installed a VTL about a year ago so I know it has nothing to do
with that.

Any ideas what this is?





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