How to use Virtual Tape?

UNIX AIX
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Dear all,

i have a virtual tape connected to a vhost1

SVSA            Physloc                                      Client Partition ID
--------------- -------------------------------------------- ------------------
vhost1          U8202.E4C.066BC9R-V1-C3                      0x00000003

VTD                   vtscsi1
Status                Available
LUN                   0x8100000000000000
Backing device        devdisk0
Physloc                
Mirrored              N/A

VTD                   vtscsi2
Status                Available
LUN                   0x8200000000000000
Backing device        devdisk1
Physloc                
Mirrored              N/A

VTD                   vttape0
Status                Available
LUN                   0x8300000000000000
Backing device        rmt0
Physloc               U78AA.001.WZSHC8L-P1-D1
Mirrored              N/A

can i add the virtual tape to a vhost0 ? or i have to remove first the vttape0 on vhost1 ?

SVSA            Physloc                                      Client Partition ID
--------------- -------------------------------------------- ------------------
vhost0          U8202.E4C.066BC9R-V1-C2                      0x00000002

VTD                   vtopt0
Status                Available
LUN                   0x8400000000000000
Backing device        cd0
Physloc               U78AA.001.WZSHC8L-P2-D9
Mirrored              N/A

VTD                   vtscsi0
Status                Available
LUN                   0x8100000000000000
Backing device        qadisk0
Physloc                
Mirrored              N/A

VTD                   vtscsi3
Status                Available
LUN                   0x8300000000000000
Backing device        qadisk1
Physloc                
Mirrored              N/A

thanks for help

Regards

2

In this case I expect you will need to remove it first. Not because you could have two virtual tapedrives, but because I expect you only have one Backing Device (in your case qadisk1).