i5/OS V5R4 Virtual Tape: A Guide to Planning and Implementation

In this IBM Redbook we provide a detailed explanation of the new virtual tape support provided by i5/OS V5R4. We cover the concepts, planning, and use of virtual tape support.
Backup and Recovery Media Services (BRMS) is an important program product for System i5 customers to enable management of their system and data backups. This publication describes how BRMS uses the new virtual tape support for virtual backups.
This redbook is intended for IBM, Business Partner and customer technical professionals who will be planning, implementing, and operating virtual tape support.

Chapter 1. Introduction to virtual tape
Chapter 2. Planning for virtual tape
Chapter 3. Implementing virtual tape storage
Chapter 4. Multiple virtual tape scenarios
Chapter 5. Saving Domino with BRMS and virtual tape
Chapter 6. BRMS and virtual tape
Chapter 7. BRMS and virtual tape working from the Navigator
Chapter 8. Debugging examples using the GUI
Appendix A. Block sizes
Appendix B. Sample command language
Appendix C. Quick start guide

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Publish Date
04 August 2006

Last Update
06 March 2008

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Author(s)

Nick Harris is a Consulting IT Specialist for the iSeries and has spent the last eight years in the International Technical Support Organization, Rochester Center. He specializes in eServer i5 and iSeries hardware, i5/OS and OS/400 software, LPAR, High Availability, external disk, Windows integration, and Linux. He writes IBM Redbooks and teaches IBM classes at ITSO Technical forums worldwide on all these areas and as they are related to system design and server consolidation. He spent 13 years in the United Kingdom (UK) AS/400 Business, where he worked with S/36, S/38, AS/400, and iSeries servers.

• Nick Harris

Brian Bohner is a Software Engineer for the IBM Rochester iSeries Support Center, Rochester, MN. He has been a specialist on the Save/Restore and BRMS team since 2001. His areas of expertise include upgrades, backups, recoveries, PTFs, BRMS, and virtual media. Brian has authored several technical documents including an article that first introduced Image Catalogs which was published in the eServer iSeries magazine. He continues to provide remote technical support, future release functions/support, and lab testing, and travels nationally and internationally to perform system installations and disaster recovery.

• Brian Bohner

Dan Johansson is a Software Specialist working in Information Technology Services for IBM Sweden. He specializes in software support for System i5, i5/OS, OS/400 and BRMS.

• Dan Johansson

Albert Karels is an IT Specialist Advisory in IBM The Netherlands. He has worked at IBM for 17 years. In 1997 he joined the iSeries software support team in the Netherlands, where he still works today. His areas of expertise include BRMS, save&restore and tape support on iSeries.

• Albert Karels

ISBN

0738497207

IBM Form Number
SG24-7164-00

Number of pages
498