No, and I didn't mean to imply that it was. We use native high-capacity cartridges for ML2. It has its own management challenges of course, but is working well for us right now.
One question often comes up when discussing using tapeless systems for ML2: If I'm going to have it on disk anyway, why did I migrate it? The question gets into muddy areas because the DS8xxx series has options for adding lower-cost and/or lower-performance drives, which are primarily aimed at the same use cases as tape. So - do you send ML2 to those types of drives? Offsite storage also presents questions: do you let your 'tapeless' virtual tape system replicate its back-end disk, or do you just replicate your DS8xxx system and avoid going to 'tape' at all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
