Can help reduce costs such as power, maintenance, operations and support staff
Can help automate and simplify IT operations using advanced policy management
Supports business continuity through GRID connectivity and automated replication
TS7740 can help accelerate backups and recalls by using a tiered hierarchy of disk and tape to make more efficient use of tape drives
TS7720 provides a cache-centric solution for frequently accessed data
The challenge:
In order to maintain continuous business operations, address regulatory requirements and archive business records, you need an infrastructure that enables you to manage your data from online application storage to offline, permanent archive media. Tape is a key part of both the backup and archive life cycle. Tape provides the lowest total cost of ownership alternative for securely storing long-term archives for recordkeeping and disaster recovery. As data centers and data stores grow, manual tape operations can become more complex. This growth can lead to increased backup and restore times and higher management overhead and costs.
The solution: the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700
The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7700 (TS7700 Virtualization Engine) is a family of mainframe virtual-tape solutions that are designed to optimize tape processing. With one solution, the implementation of a fully integrated tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape leverages the benefits of both technologies to help enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today’s tape processing requirements. Deploying this innovative subsystem can help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead.
Common features2
Hardware summary2
May be attached to supported IBM System z® servers
Maximum of 1024 virtual drives and 1,000,000 virtual volumes
Web-based management tools
Advanced policy management
IBM TS3000 System Console
TS7740
Up to 56 TB native tape volume cache
Attach up to 64 TS1100 or 3592 tape drives
Up to 16 4 Gbps FICON® channels
TS7720
Up to 280 TB native tape volume cache using 1 TB SATA drives
In order to maintain continuous business operations, address regulatory requirements and archive business records, you need an infrastructure that enables you to manage your data from online application storage to offline, permanent archive media. Tape is a key part of both the backup and archive life cycle. Tape provides the lowest total cost of ownership alternative for securely storing long-term archives for recordkeeping and disaster recovery. As data centers and data stores grow, manual tape operations can become more complex. This growth can lead to increased backup and restore times and higher management overhead and costs.
