ADSM-L

Re: migrate mvs server to unix

2000-07-11 14:50:59
Subject: Re: migrate mvs server to unix
From: "Tracy T." <adsmigmo AT YAHOO DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:50:59 -0700
I'm not the adsm admin - I just maintain of of the
unix clients - the only one dumb enough (apparently)
to use HSM.

Do you mind if I forward your name and email to our
adsm admin?  He may have some questions about how you
moved your servers.


--- "Cook, Dwight E" <cookde AT BP DOT COM> wrote:
> Naaa I went from MVS to UNIX...
> Naaa I went from MVS to UNIX...
> MVS just has to use virtual volumes over on the unix
> box to write "export"
> data to and then just import in on the UNIX box...
> I move off two pretty healthy sized MVS adsm servers
> over to UNIX adsm
> servers...
> now we just run 12 aix tsm servers... ;-)
> Dwight
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Tracy T.[SMTP:adsmigmo AT YAHOO DOT COM]
> > Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > Sent:         Tuesday, July 11, 2000 11:58 AM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Re: migrate mvs server to unix
> >
> > I got some clarification on why my HSM client data
> > can't be migrated from an MVS ADSM server to a
> UNIX
> > server.  According to the Tivoli guys a UNIX
> server is
> > not going to be able to read the EBCDIC tape
> format
> > from the MVS system - so apparently *all* data on
> the
> > tapes will be poo-poo.   We'll be starting from
> > scratch - all history will be lost.  Doesn't seem
> > right.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> wrote:
> > > >We're planning on moving from a MVS server to a
> > > UNIX
> > > >server, sometime the first of next year.  We
> were
> > > told
> > > >that (for whatever reason), HSM data on clients
> is
> > > not
> > > >migratable from one server to the next, even
> though
> > > we
> > > >plan on using the same tape library.
> > >
> > > Tracy - Whoever told you that should explain to
> you
> > > what they
> > >         meant.  Certainly the Export Node
> command
> > > will export
> > > Spacemanaged data.  You didn't tell us what
> flavor
> > > of Unix, but
> > > certainly AIX and Solaris have HSM client
> support.
> > > Worst case, you could get two 36GB disks for all
> the
> > > data, mark
> > > it Read-without-recall on the present client,
> and
> > > network transfer
> > > it to the new system's disks for non-HSM
> storage.
> > > And there are
> > > file systems which auto-compress data.  Lots of
> > > possibilities
> > > with today's technology.
> > >    Richard Sims, BU
> >
> >
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