Luminex and Optica are the low end of the cost spectrum for VTS's that are
still completely acceptable for enterprise use. They are both fairly robust
and the cost is pretty close. Optica is just slightly better with respect to
ease of use (day to day support of keeping the VTS and your tape
I had 12 different boxes installed in 11 different customers with z/OS (v1 and
v2), OS/390 (v2), z/VM (v5 v6), z/VSE (v5) and VSE/ESA (v2).
One of customers has 2 boxes (production and DR) using replication.
All these boxes has being installed since 2012 and has no trouble with hardware
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