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 Use telnet or PuTTy to connect to the VIOS partition. Sign in using padmin as the user
ID.
 Enter cfgdev to check for new devices.
 Enter lsdev | grep rmt to view the tape devices and ensure that they are in Available
state.
 Enter lsdev | grep vhost and note the last vhost listed there.
 You need to associate this device with a VSCSI adapter pair. You need to use the SDMC
interface to create those. Refer to the “Error! Reference source not found.” section for
details. Then return to this step.
 On the VIOS CLI enter lsdev | grep vhost. There should be a new vhostY listed. This
vhostY is the VSCSI adapter in VIOS that you just created.
 To map the tape drive to the vhostY, enter mkvdev –vdev <rmtX> -vadapter vhostY.
 Enter lsmap –all | more and press the Spacebar key to advance through the mappings.
Look for the vhostY and make sure the vttapeZ device is associated with it.
 On SDMC: update the inventory to view the changes.
 On the IBM i virtual server with auto configuration turned on, a TAPxx device appears.
Vary it on to use it.
8.3 Virtual tape configuration using IVM
VIOS will see a supported tape device as an rmt# device. If you physically connected the tape
device to its associated adapter after VIOS came up, you will need to use the Hardware link and
click on the Configure Devices button to see the rmt# device.
IVM has an interface to move the tape device under the View/Modify Storage pane
 Click the Tape tab.
 Select the rmt# device and assign it to the IBM i partition.
 If auto configuration is enabled on the IBM i partition, the tapxx device will be configured.
 Vary on the device using the WRKCFGSTS *DEV TAP* interface.