Storage

A Helpful Guide to Getting Started with NPIV

Rob McNelly returns to a familiar topic and takes note of an upcoming event

‘The Easy Bit Is Moving the Data’: Mainframe Storage Migration in the Real World

Chris Harvey, senior technical delivery manager at Vertali, explains why uneventful migrations rarely happen by accident

Minimize VIOS Downtime With Alternate Disk Updates

Chris Gibson shows how to use the updateios command to update a VIOS from 4.1.2.00 to 4.1.2.10

What to Do if Your VIOS Backup Fails

Rob McNelly aggregates updates and alerts from IBM Support, including vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS, recent APARS, updateios and altdisk problem scenarios and more, including an update on his Arizona adventures

Taking Greater Control of Live Partition Mobility

Using the vfc resource label as an example, Chris Gibson provides a practical introduction to VIOS group labels

Reactive to Proactive: A More Confident Approach to IBM i Monitoring

Businesses trust IBM i to support the applications and workflows that process their invoices, operate their warehouses, dispatch their shipments, and most important of all, serve their customers. IBM i is the high point for reliability for any business application, but even the most reliable environments need visibility to be properly secured, maintained, and monitored. […]

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IBM’s Mainframe Certificate Course Is Full of Surprises, Even for a ‘Grayframer’

Veteran mainframer Bruce McKnight discovers the value of re-examining platform fundamentals with fresh eyes

In IT, There Are No Points for Humility

Rob McNelly on the importance of giving credit where due, a guide to NPIV setup and more

The Operational Costs Hiding Inside AWS Environments

Why organizations often lack visibility into the costs of running workloads on AWS, and why those issues tend to surface over time

Manage z/OS Storage Without the Green Screen: A Unified Approach with UDM

From Technical Debt to Storage Mastery: Modernizing z/OS Management with UDM In the modern agile enterprise, Storage Resource Management (SRM) serves as the cornerstone of operational resilience. However, many organizations remain shackled to “monolithic legacy debt”, rigid architectures that have failed to evolve alongside the data center. When an infrastructure tool requires more effort to […]

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