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Considerations and information about DSI VTLs

If requiring sizing for Dynamic Solutions International (DSI) Virtual Tape Library (VTL), send the following information to IBMsizing@dynamicsolutions.com (see attachments for DSI sizing spreadsheet).

1. Customer Name

2. On-prem appliance

3. What VTL/Tape drives are used today

4. If using a VTL,

   1. What is the current deduplication ratio

   2. What LPARs are been saved at what location if there are multiple sites

   3. The average size of virtual volumes

   4. Using 10Gb adapters for replication (Yes/No)

   5. Using Fibre Channel cards for replication (Yes/No)

   6. Using DSI Conductor for migration of media (Yes/No)

   7. Do you initialize media when it expires or do you plan to (Yes/No)

5. Data collected from one of the actions below

6. If using a mixture of VTL and physical and you are planning on continuing the same practices, list control groups that will use physical media

7. These commands need to run in the same job stream.

8. The PRTRPTBRM EXPDATE(*ACTIVE) parameter was introduced in 7.2 and later and requires one of the following PTFs: 7.4 SI72867 7.3 SI72866  7.2 SI72865

If using BRMS backup control groups, load and apply 7.4 SI72867 7.3 SI72866  7.2 SI72865 or superseding PTF and then run the following commands, in the same job stream, on each LPAR and send the spooled file. The spooled file can be zipped to transfer easier.

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