Hello,
This question is specifically aimed at the 1-Touch recovery process for an IBM i client, but may be applicable to other client types.
The save of the system portion (SAVSYS) will create up to nine [4.27GB] ISO image files that are then individually ‘burned’ to DVDs for use by the 1-Touch Recovery process. The first ISO image file [DVD] will be used for the initial boot of a system, with the remainder of the ISO image files used for the install of the base operating system and other objects that will get the system to the stage where it can communicate with CommVault to complete the restore of the entire system.
With this many ISO image files it is quite cumbersome and time consuming having to burn nine ISO images to DVD. Likewise using this many DVDs for a recovery is a slow process.
IBM Power9 servers have a USB3 port that can be switched and allocated to an individual IBM i LPAR as a virtual optical device, allowing a USB flash drive to be used as a boot device. Hence my question - is there an option or is CommVault considering the use USB flash drives instead of DVD where all ISO image files could potentially be burned to one USB flash drive?
Thanks,
Jozsef