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Highlights
- Supports highly scalable, automated data retention on tape utilizing LTO Ultrium and IBM 3592 and TS1100 families of tape drives
- Delivers extreme scalability and capacity, growing from 1 to 16 frames per library and from one to 15 libraries per library complex using the TS3500 shuttle connector
- Provides up to 900 PB of automated, low-cost storage under a single library image, dramatically improving floor space utilization and reducing storage cost per terabyte
- Offers optional second robotic accessor to enhance data availability and reliability
- Enables data security and regulatory compliance via support for tape drive encryption and WORM cartridges
The IBM® System Storage® TS3500 Tape Library is designed to provide a highly scalable, automated tape library for mainframe and open systems backup and archive that can scale from midrange to enterprise environments.
The TS3500 Tape Library continues to lead the industry in tape drive integration with features such as persistent World Wide Name, multipath architecture, drive/media exception reporting, remote drive/media management, and host-based path failover.
The TS3500 Tape Library supports IBM System z® when used with the IBM 3953 Tape System, the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7740, or the IBM System Storage® Tape Controller for System z with its embedded library manager. These systems enable System z hosts to access the TS3500 Tape Library cartridge inventory and allow connection to TS1140, TS1130, TS1120 and IBM TotalStorage 3592 Model J1A Tape Drives. The TS3500 Tape Library can support up to four 3953 tape systems, up to eight IBM Virtualization Engine TS7740 subsystems per physical library, and up to sixteen IBM System Storage Tape Controllers for System z per logical library.
Common features
- Ability to attach multiple simultaneous heterogeneous servers
- Remote management using a web browser
- SNMP functionality
- Advanced Library Management System (ALMS)
- Persistent World Wide Name
- Multipath architecture
- Drive/media exception reporting
- Shuttle connector
- Remote drive/media management
- Host-based path failover
- Supports TS1120, TS1130, TS1140, TS1040 and TS1050 Tape Drive encryption
Hardware summary
- One base frame, and up to 15 expansion frames per library; up to 15 libraries interconnected per complex
- Up to 12 drives per frame (up to 192 per library, up to 2,700 per complex)
- Up to 224 I/O slots (16 I/O slots standard)
- IBM 3592 JA/JJ/JB/JC and JW/JR/JX/JY (WORM) cartridges or IBM LTO Ultrium 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 cartridges
- Up to 60 PB compressed with IBM Ultrium 5 cartridges per library, up to 900 PB compressed per complex
- Up to 180 PB compressed with 3592 extended capacity cartridges per library, up to 2.7 EB compressed per complex
- LTO Fibre Channel interface for server attachment
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