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Migrating tapes without tape library

  • March 10, 2026
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Hello,

One of our clients has an On-prem CommCell with IBM 3576-MTL6 library with 6 drives and over a thousands tapes. Considering customer is planning workloads/clients migration to a new CommCell is it possible to migrate indexes of these tapes and lift and shift actual tapes, however without migrating the actual library and tape drive hardware. What is the best option?

 

Thanks 

Tomas

 

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Sureshkumar S
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Hi ​@Tomas Koller ,

Good day!

Will you be doing commcell migration for the clients ?

Regards,
Sureshkumar S


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  • March 13, 2026

Hello back ​@Sureshkumar S ,

Workloads (virtual) are going to be migrated to new cell. Can we retain existing agents installed on them to use in the new cell? Another suppose Q is if VSA that can be migrated alongside workloads and retain configuration/reconnect to new commcell.

If yes that leaves question if legacy Commserve server, MAs and the Library and Tapes need to migrate or configs can be exported and merged with new cell config.