In my 35 years of working on or around VM, I have never once had to take
a stand alone dump of VM. In the past, the PSW RESTART dumps were
sufficient. Now, you have that and the SNAPDUMP command. The only times
that the stand alone dump tape got used was for the production TPF
systems when I was at Piedmont Airlines.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Collinson.Shannon
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:24 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: 3590 tape drive support in zLinux/zVM?
This is cross-posted on the linux-390 and ibmvm listservs...
Is there a manual or webpage somewhere that references all the
types of hardware that will work under various versions of zLinux and
zVM? Or could someone tell me where I could confirm that a Magstar 3590
model E11 standalone tape drive would work under zVM 5.3 and/or SLES9
SP3? We're new to the zVM/zLinux world-just finished with our POC and
now trying to ready an LPAR for production use-and didn't realize till
just recently that we'd need a tape drive to do a standalone dump of the
zVM lpar. We have some no-longer-in-use 3590s available so thought we'd
put them on the lpar as a temporary solution, but don't know how to
ensure they're supported. Thanks!
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