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VTL Conductor and Tracker (IBM i)

Integrates into your existing IBM i Power Systems environment and Media Management Software (MMS), delivering automated, host-based policies that leverage all of the Virtual Tape Library’s (VTL) functionality without leaving the standard IBM i interface. Supports BRMS or DSI Tracker media management applications.

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DSISYS250.SAVF
Conductor for IBM i - Virtual Tape Library media managment. After logging in, Conductor downloads are located in the following FTP directory:

https://dsisupport.hosted-by-files.com/Common/DSI Software/DSI IBM i Software

DSISYS250.SAVF requires VTL Agent version 2.03.019 or higher

What’s New in Version V2R5:

MAINTENANCE RELEASE

V2R25 contains various internal improvements and bugfixes.

Notes for version V2R4:

SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Support for LT08 and 12,000GB maximum tape capacities for VTL 10.x servers.

Authorization data for managed client LPARs is now automatically provided to Failover servers, where applicable, eliminating the need for the user to transfer this data automatically.

Conductor’s *IMPORT and *TRANSFER abilities may now be enabled and disabled for managed clients via the Service Management application, allowing the service provider to easily enable or disable these functions for a managed client:

  • When enabled, managed clients will be able to register *SIR (dedupe) servers to their EV0, enabling imports to use the “import/dedupe” logical unit of work as well as support Conductor managing *TRANSFER activity, and provides temporary access to other supporting activities for these functions that are otherwise blocked from use by managed clients.

  • Upon *IMPORTS and/or *TRANSFERS being disabled for a managed LPAR, any *SIR registrations will be automatically removed from the managed client configuration, and otherwise restricted functions/options are returned to a disabled state.

Creation of replication policies via the service management application now utilizes stored, encrypted passwords for replica servers;  these passwords may be captured, encrypted, and stored using the “agentPWD” command provided with the DSI Agent software.   See the DSI VTL Agent documentation or your DSI support representative for more information.

Virtual resource assignments are now executed using the VTL Target WWPN (instead of the LPAR client WWPN).   This allows for creation of Fibre Channel clients in a variety of ways, some of which cannot be completed using the VTL Console (e.g., Multipath where allowed, some logical library configs using multiple fibre paths).

See the VTL Conductor for IBM i – Service Management - V2R4 document for more information.
 

CONDUCTOR

A new build process results in a much smaller installation and software footprint.

Improved communications management between the IBM host and the VTL Agent.  This improves performance and reliability when multiple Conductor clients will be accessing the same DSI VTL.

Conductor has been qualified for use with the new DSI “Cloud” VTLs available to IBM cloud customers (iSCSI).

An improved Job Management application provides more list filtering, the count of jobs in the current view, and an ability to dump a job report using the current view of the Job Management application.   See section 5-Reviewing/Managing Conductor/VTL Job Activity for more information.

A *TRANSFER capability has been added to Conductor.  This allows for the replication-based migration of media inventories to new DSI VTL servers or for automated recovery of primary media inventories from replica servers.   It may be thought of as an export process for DSI-to-DSI migrations.

Migrations may be performed at the BRMS-Network level or at the LPAR level, with media qualification at each level available.   Conductor will automatically perform all of the adjustments to the Conductor media database as well as perform all of the media property maintenance on the VTL and in BRMS that may be required to complete the media transfer:

  • The *TRANSFER option may also be used to recover primary media inventories from replica servers should this become necessary.
  • See section 3.8.9-Performing Automated Media Transfers or Recoveries for more information on using the *TRANSFER function.

The *IMPORT function has been adapted to allow for automatic BRMS-Network level media qualification.

  • BRMS-Network level imports may now be run from the *ALL relationship created by Conductor (via Option 6 – IBM i System Integration);  previously, network-level imports required the load of the DSISIS/IMPCTL table and the use of an alternate import management mechanism.

  • This alternative model remains available but, in most cases, may be superseded by the use of the *ALL relationship *IMPORT.

  • See section 3.8.2-Importing BRMS Legacy Media via LPAR Relationships for more information on using the *ALL-LPAR *IMPORT functions.

A new command “DSI” is added to access the DSI Conductor Main Menu (the old “Conductor” command remains available).

The media duplication engine has been improved to better support BRMS duplication of media sets produced in parallel-drive backups as well as duplication of individual tapes produced by a parallel backup.

*IMPORT and automated media management activity may now auto-suspend, and auto-resume, based on the available storage on the primary VTL falling below and rising back above a specified minimum ratio of free storage.  See section 3.4.5-Configure Monitoring for more information on how to set the suspend threshold value for these functions.

*IMPORT processing will now recognize media overruns during imports.  Overruns may occur when the source tape contains more data than allowed by the VTL’s “Maximum Capacity” value for a library.   Previously, these tapes would indicate a normal completion status.   In V2R4, *IMPORT jobs that result in overruns will automatically delete the imported media at *IMPORT completion and place the *IMPORT job in *FAILED status with appropriate messaging as to how to recover the import within the job details.

Corrected an issue where Conductor was in cases attempting to release unallocated storage, which produced dump reports on some systems.

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VTL Agent (IBM i & Unisys)

DSI VTL Agent, when combined with Unisys MCP and IBM i media management software, allows for full automation of VTL functionality from the media management operator console, simplifying backup and restore operations.

PLEASE NOTE! The latest VTL agent can be downloaded from our FTP site (login required).

  • For DSI5xx/iDSI5xx VTL servers download the *-el7.x86_64.bsx version
  • For DSI6xx/iDSI6xx VTL servers download the *-el8.x86_64.bsx version

After logging in, downloads are located in the following FTP directory:

https://dsisupport.hosted-by-files.com/Common/DSI Software/DSI VTL Agent/current_release/

Install-VTL-Agent-2.03.019-el7.x86_64.bsx 
Install-VTL-Agent-2.03.019-el8.x86_64.bsx
VTL-Agent-2.03.019-Release-Notes

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DSI Restore

DSI Restore is a deduplicating backup and recovery virtual appliance. This software version of our world class enterprise Virtual Tape Library (VTL) makes all the stress of completing a clean backup disappear. Scalable from TBs to PBs of deduplicated backup data, it provides commercial, financial, and government organizations with a high performance data protection strategy that may be integrated with your existing hypervisor. Data recovery will be seamless in the event of a disruption.

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PLEASE NOTE! IBM Restore requires VTL agent *-ppc64le.bsx, and can be downloaded from our FTP site (login required):

https://dsisupport.exavault.com/p/Common/DSI Software/DSI Restore/VTL Agent (IBM Restore)

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