IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library

A highly scalable, automated tape solution addresses data protection and long-term retention

 IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library
Key optional features Benefits
Shuttle connector
  • Connects up to 15 TS3500 tape libraries as a single library complex for managing vast amounts of data centrally
  • Allows flexible library string lengths for customer floor layout flexibility
Dual robotic accessor
  • Helps increase the mount performance and overall system availability
  • Two accessors can operate simultaneously in multiple frame configurations
Advanced library management system
  • Enables dynamic partitioning (sharing) of the TS3500s total capacity
Capacity on demand
  • Provides entry and intermediate capacities in the first frame to grow the TS3500 as your storage needs grow
Control-path and data-path automatic failover
  • Helps to enhance availability of the library
Products enabling TS3500 to store System z data Benefits
TS7740 Virtualization Engine
  • Creates a virtual tape library of up to four million cartridges accessible at disk speeds while storing the data via TS1140, TS1130, TS1120, or 3592 tape drives and cartridges in the TS3500
  • Enables quick access to active data on “virtual volumes” on disk and reduces your overall solution cost by storing inactive data on tape
  • Up to six TS7740s can be interconnected, each with its own TS3500 library for automated failover data protection and long term retention
3592 Tape Controller for System z
  • Enables the TS3500 to directly store System z data to tape using model TS1140, TS1130, TS1120, or 3592 tape drives and cartridges via a FICON connection to the System z host
Key standard features of the TS3500 Tape Library Benefits
Flexible upgrades designed to minimize time offline
  • Capacity expansion requires only a brief interruption of service; majority of new frame installation is done while the library is in service
Remote, web browser-based management
  • Access library management functions from any network-connected computer
Redundant power supplies and AC feeds
  • Designed to increase system reliability
Simultaneously manages both LTO Ultrium and IBM Enterprise tape cartridges
  • Helps protect current media investments
  • Supports a heterogeneous environment of open and System z tape storage
 IBM Tape System Library Manager Software for the TS3500
Features Benefits
Simplified drive path management
  • Decouples tape resources and applications
IBM 3494 tape library emulation
  • Allows 3494 users to change the hardware without changing all applications
Manage up to 15 interconnected TS3500 libraries
  • Enables shuttle-connected TS3500 library systems to be managed as one large logical library using IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager
Security features
  • Permits or prevents application access to tape
  • Helps enable common scratch pools and private pools for every application
  • Ensures secure usage and visibility

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