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TS7700 Virtualization Engine

Outstanding virtualization capabilities help to optimize and protect IT investments

  
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Feature Benefits
Tiered hierarchy of disk and tape storage
  • Helps improve performance and capacity to help achieve a low total cost of ownership for tape processing
Maximum of 768 virtual drives 2 and 1,000,000 virtual volumes
  • Helps reduce or eliminate bottlenecks in your tape environment

  • Supports the re-reference of Volumes without the physical delays typical to tape I/O

  • Helps increase performance of tape processes
Advanced policy management
  • Cache management for volume retention and deletion

  • Volume pooling that allows grouping of logical volumes on physically separate cartridges or cartridge pools
Two or three TS7700s can be configured to participate in a GRID environment
  • Helps to support high availability requirements

  • Helps to enhance availability during planned maintenance, service or system upgrades

  • Avoids the transportation of cartridges in the event of a disaster
Supports TS1120 tape drive-based encryption
  • Helps secure sensitive at-rest data
IBM TS3000 System Console
  • Allows IBM Technical Service to download new microcode and remotely monitor the installation

  • Can automatically dispatch a service representative when required

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1 In a GRID configuration




2 In a 3 Cluster GRID configuration
 
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