System Capabilities

CA Vtape supports the following specifications:

Maximum number of CA Vtape subsystems per LPAR: 8
Maximum Virtual Devices per subsystem: Up to 512 (256 recommended)
Maximum Virtual Devices per LPAR: 2,048
Tape emulation: IBM's 3480 or 3490
Maximum DASD buffer per complex: No limit
Maximum number of Virtual Volumes per complex: 1,000,000
Maximum number of stacked physical tapes: No limit
For the CA Vtape Peer-to-Peer Option (CA Vtape P2P), maximum number of Remote connections: 16
For the USS Backstore feature, maximum number of file system mount points: 33