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Figure 4-61 Logical Partition: Storage
4.7.8 Optical and tape devices
Optical devices, both physical and virtual and physical tape devices, can be
assigned to an LPAR. With an IBM BladeCenter JS23 or JS43, the physical
optical device must be available to the BladeCenter slot that you are working with
through the media tray assignment before assignment to an LPAR can be made.
Virtual Optical Devices are not dependent on the media tray assignment. Refer
to “Virtual optical devices” on page 135 for an explanation of how to create the
media library and virtual optical devices.
As of this writing, only the IBM System Storage TS2240 SAS attached tape
system is supported in a BladeCenter JS23/43 VIOS environment.
Figure 4-62 on page 153 shows the optical device selection window. In this
example, no physical optical device are available. By default the LPAR wizard will
Note: Physical and virtual optical devices cannot be used on logical partitions
that will be used in Partition Mobility.
A virtual tape or virtual optical device is required for backup for IBM i.
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