Re: Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Petka
If at all possible you may want to bypass L1 migration and go directly to L2, even if it means keeping some data on L0 longer. SSM will kill your mips. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-11-01 Thread Tim Hare
I agree with many that a duplex VSM/VTS situation solves the DR problem but that's capital outlay that probably won't happen. That leaves us with one virtual box, and the DR "solutions" in that case are more problematic. I haven't yet compared the DASD cost so I will have toI accept at face

Re: Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-11-01 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- I'm in agreement with what Kees said - and TMM is *not* $0. After much effort (years) one of my customers finally jumped from a large TMM implementation to (duplexed) VTSs. The DASD cost of TMM was about 30% of the installation - maybe more

Re: Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-10-31 Thread Shane
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:11 -0500, Tim Hare wrote: > VTS disk may be cheaper than online disk, but the the total cost of the > VSM box with DASD may not be cheaper than what we need to go to TMM, > especially since that DASD is "free" - it's capacity we already own but > don't use. I appreciate

Re: Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-10-31 Thread Rugen, Len
We never went to VTS, we could implement partial TMM for $0. We analyzed tape jobs that caused specific volser mounts, then TMM'ed the small (Mb) tapes first. We have dropped from 100's of specific mounts per day to 0-20. We still use about 50 3490 scratch tapes some days, but they are backup ta

Re: Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Hare
VTS disk may be cheaper than online disk, but the the total cost of the VSM box with DASD may not be cheaper than what we need to go to TMM, especially since that DASD is "free" - it's capacity we already own but don't use. I appreciate the point, however, and we'll try to see if we can figure

Re: Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-10-31 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED] e.fl.us>... > The virtual tape mount question in the SMF JWT thread prompted me to post > this: > > We're thinking about moving off virtual tape, to Tape Mount Management. > We've been kicking the idea around because: > > 1. We thin

Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Hare
The virtual tape mount question in the SMF JWT thread prompted me to post this: We're thinking about moving off virtual tape, to Tape Mount Management. We've been kicking the idea around because: 1. We think we have the DASD to accomodate an x-day buffer of user tape 2. All of our important b