How many devices can be supported?
...tual tape device paths are supported derived from:
Up to 256 devices per control unit
Up to 16 control units per port
Up to 256 lpar-cu paths per port (logical paths)
Up to 256 lpars per c...
- What Mainframe Operating Systems are supported?
A: Virtually all versions of MVS and Z/OS are supported as
well as VSE and VM.
- Can a mainframe be IPL’d from a Channel Gateway?
A: Yes. There is no difference between a 3490 tape drive and
the Channel Gateway. The IPL tape
must be logically mounted either through a command line interface on the server
or through the Lu...
- What is the storage capacity overhead introduced by the Channel Gateway?
A: The overhead is very small – usually in the range of .05%
to .10% of the total storage capacity.
The overhead is 8 bytes per tape block.
Thus if you write a 10 Gbyte tape using a bl...
- How much data is pre-allocated for each virtual tape?
A: No storage is reserved for a virtual tape.
Unlike true tape, there is no wasted space on the storage device.
- Does Channel Gateway X (CGX) support multipath FICON?
...obs. Error recovery performance will be dependent on the mainframe platform and OS. For example, a z10 will significantly outperform a z890 with respect to its failover and recovery process.
- How does the Channel Gateway determine which storage pool to use when a scratch tape is mounted?
...n mechanism is script based and
easily modified by Luminex engineers. The two default methods are: 1) Use the
filesystem with the most free capacity, and 2) Use the filesystems in a
round-robin mod...
- What tape management software does the Channel Gateway work with?
A: The Channel Gateway has successfully been used with TMS, Control-T, Dynam-T, RMM, BIM/Epic and other
standard tape management software.
- Does the system need to be on the customer network?
A: No, unless the storage system is to be accessed via NFS and resides on the customer network storage or
if the Luminex browser interface is to be used over the network.
- What storage interfaces are supported?
A: Any device that can be seen by the native Sun Solaris
system. Storage devices can be SCSI, iSCSI, Fibre-Channel, and NFS.
- Are virtual tape libraries supported?
A: Yes. Virtual Tape
products available from companies such as Copan,
Sepaton, FalconStor and FalconStor OEMs are supported.
- Is the Centera product from EMC supported?
A: Yes
- What filesystem formats can be used?
A: The Channel Gateway supports the use of many filesystems
such as ZFS, UFS, NFS, QFS, and
the Veritas filesystem VFS. Any
filesystem that is supported by Solaris is usable by the Channel Ga...
- Does Channel Gateway/CGX support Data Domain OS 5.2.1.0?
...nel Gateway and Channel Gateway X (CGX) with attached Data Domain storage systems running DD OS 5.2.1.0. Channel Gateway was designed from the ground up for maximum compatibility and flexibility, and ...
- Can remote diagnostics be performed?
A: Yes, but only if remote access is provided to
the Channel Gateway.
- Does Channel Gateway work in OAM environments?
...
A: OAM typically utilizes 3995 Write-Once
Optical Media. That product from IBM is
now EOL’d and customers are looking to upgrade and convert from 3995. The Channel Gateway opens up a wid...
- What changes are required to my current application setup?
A:
The upgrade and conversion process is to reconfigure the OAM application to use
tape-based storage and then to migrate the existing 3995 data to the Channel
Gateway virtual tape storage. T...
- Is virtual tape a good fit for OAM applications?
...odern, cost effective and massively scalable storage solutions are
available to replace the EOL’d 3995 devices
- How does Channel Gateway support disaster recovery?
A:
The Channel Gateway enables the upgrade of existing disaster procedures to use
new cost effective, secure and high performance DR storage solutions.
- What are my options to get the data to the DR location?
A: Many….