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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

1. Customer Name

2. On-prem appliance, cloud VTL or bot

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. 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)

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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• Type of backup -  Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly etc

• Size of each backup

• How often each backup is done - Example : Daily 6 days a week, Weekly once a week,

• Retention of each backup - Example : Daily 14 days, Weekly 35 days

• Start time of each backup

Example

NOTE: Additional considerations need to be made if data is going to be replicated and backups will be occurring at different sites. If this is the case, make sure you indicate which systems will be backed up at each site and what will be replicated

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