10 to 35 C, 0 to 900 m, above 900 m, derate upper temperature 1 C/300 m
Recommended
20 to 25° C
Relative Humidity:
8 to 80%
Recommended Relative Humidity:
40 to 55%
Maximum wet bulb:
23° C
Altitude (maximum):
2133 m
Heat Output
16,400 Btu/hr (4,800 watts)
Maximum configuration:
4.8 kVA
Operating Systems
The TS7520 Virtualization Engine supports the following operating systems at the minimum levels indicated
1:
AIX 5L™ V5.1, V5.2 and V5.3
V5R3 and V5R4 i5/OS
Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10
Microsoft® Windows® 2003 (build 3790, or greater)
64-HP-UX 11iv1 and 11iv2
Linux® distributions:
xSeries® and Intel® 32-bit servers (x86) and 64-bit servers (ia64) with Linux SLES 10 kernel 2.6.16.21-0.8 bigsmp/smp/up
xSeries and Intel 32-bit servers (x86) and 64-bit servers (ia64) with Linux RHEL 4.4 kernel 2.6.9-42.EL hugemem/smp/up
xSeries and Intel 32-bit servers (x86) and 64-bit servers (ia64) with Linux SLES 9 SP3 kernel 2.6.5-7.244
xSeries and Intel 32-bit servers (x86) with Linux Asianux 2.0 kernel 2.6.9-11.19AX hugemem/smp/up
Specifications
Max No. of Virtual Libraries
128 virtual libraries per server; 512 virtual libraries per system
Max No. of Virtual Drives
1,024 per server; 4,096 per system
Max No. of Virtual Cartridges
64,000 per server; up to 256,000 per system
System Performance
Read
Write
Max. Configuration
Up to 4,760 MB/sec
Up to 4,400 MB/sec
Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression)
3.4 PB Cache Capacity at 2:1 Compression
IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager and other compatible software offerings provide storage and tape management software for the TS7520. Supporting software and applications must be obtained separately from IBM, IBM Business Partners, or ISVs. A list of compatible software is available from your IBM representative or visit:
ibm.com/systems/storage/tape
1 List the minimum software level requirements for basic support. Please refer to the technical documentation for specific function or feature support.
