[Z-man]

Today was great! I got the IBM ATL/VTS copyexport process fully automated via a couple of REXX programs I wrote. Did our first eject of live production data from the new silo. Other than a couple finger-check related JCL errors, the process worked flawlessly.

3 tapes containing 7TB of data. Amazing.

So after that, I continued with the migration process. Working on HSM backup tapes - Daily(05) through Daily(07) and then the Spill volumes. Tomorrow, ML2 is going to virtual tape, as well as our full volume disaster recovery volumes.

Also had a meeting with the VMWARE folks to setup a plan on how to resolve the out of sync condition between the sVC LUN's and the hosts' SCSI ID's.

Also met with IBM to discuss some datacenter consolidation efforts - seems IBM is putting a good word in for me - suggesting that I be the key person on the storage side. (May mean a promotion)

All in all, it's been a good day. I do get jazzed up when things go as planned - especially with the ATL/VTS stuff. Been working my butt off on that project since January...

-Z-man.

PS: If any of the above makes sense to you, then you get your uber-geek points for the day.