You could look at a disk array that can be connected on Fiber Channel, you should have FICON cards on your mainframe... Then you can use the SCSI storage on Linux, and it will work very well.
Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. 2012/8/16 Larry Bernacki <lawrence.ctr.berna...@faa.gov> > Does zLinux support non-IBM disk array storage? > > The background: > We're currently running a Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server 5.5 on zOS, > and have found out that TSM 5.5 is the last version on zOS. IBM does not > plan to support TSM v6 on zOS. > So we need to move our TSM server. IBM has a migration path for TSM v5.5 > to TSM v6 onto either a system running AIX or zLinux. > Since we run zLinux, we're going with the zLinux option. > To decrease the storage cost and help with out disaster recovery, we are > looking at moving the TSM storage pools to a non-zSeries storage medium. > > We are looking at a disk storage array direct connected via an OSA card. > Does anyone know if zLinux can utilize disk arrays in this manner? > > Thank you in advance, > Larry Bernacki > Laboratory Technical Services Branch, ANG-E13 > FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center > Atlantic City International Airport, NJ 08405 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
