Hi, 

this link can be useful. 

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21239546

In many cases people are using VIO server, if this is your case you will need  
to add hbas dedicates only for LPAR lanfree Backup. 

With NPIV  the HBA presents multiple unique WWNs to the OS, this is a solution 
to share the Hba among Lpars. Then LPars can be TSM Servers or LanFree Clients.
In my opinion, if you need high performance backup you will need to add a 
number 
of hbas depending on the performance you needed. 

It is possible to share disc a tape traffic in the same hba. The problem is you 
don't get the ,more optimal performance, for not production environment it is 
cheaper. 


Regards, 

Fran




----- Mensaje original ----
De: Mehdi Salehi <ezzobad AT GMAIL DOT COM>
Para: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Enviado: jue,19 agosto, 2010 11:22
Asunto: LAN-free backup in a logical partition

Hi,
A Linux/AIX logical partition on IBM POWER systems has only virtual SCSI
adapters. Can this partition use TSM LAN-free backup in any way? (tape,
GPFS, SANergy,...)

How about if the client uses NPIV? If yes, is NPIV virtualization completely
transparent to TSM/SAN equipments?

Regards,
Mehdi