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List:       adsm-l
Subject:    Re: ISP and Ubuntu support - tapes
From:       Angelique R Budaya <arbudaya () US ! IBM ! COM>
Date:       2021-04-29 1:32:31
Message-ID: OF3CFB78A1.3D535203-ON002586C6.00082AA6-072586C6.00087873 () notes ! na ! collabserv ! com
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Hi Harry,

Tape support for Ubuntu is supported by the IBM Spectrum Protect server as
of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ONLY for both Linux on x86_64 and Linux on POWER LE.
Currently Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is not supported at all (neither for disk only
environments nor tape).

All the best,
Angelique Budaya


"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 04/26/2021
01:31:40 AM:

> From: Harry Redl <harry_redl@YAHOO.COM>
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 04/26/2021 01:32 AM
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ADSM-L] ISP and Ubuntu support - tapes
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am in the process of planning the upgrade of customers ISP environment
> (8.1.6 running on CEntOS 6.x). As the customer is mostly Debian based,
> they would consider moving their server(s) to Ubuntu.
> As far as I know - years ago IBM started to support the Ubuntu for the
> server with disk-environments only.
>
> Looking at the IBM page I can see the limitation is still there for
> Linux on POWER LE, but not for x86_64
>
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/overview-ibm-spectrum-protect-
> supported-operating-systems#Linux%20x86_64_0
>
> Does that mean the server is supported on Ubuntu with tapes? Is there
> anyone out there really using it?
>
> Another question is - I feel a slight difference in "RHEL 7.6 and later
> ..." (like RHEL 7.7 is "later", therefore supported) and "Ubuntu 16.04.2
> LTS and all updates ...." (like "16.04.3" - if there is any - is OK, but
> not 20.04 LTS as it is not the same level) - is it meant this way or the
> Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS (with updates) is supported as well?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Harry Redl
>
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