TS7700 Virtualization Engine

Outstanding virtualization capabilities support information availability and retention


	Overview \| Features and benefits \| Specifications

Feature

Benefits

TS7740 offers tiered hierarchy of disk and tape storage

Helps improve performance and capacity to help achieve a low total cost of ownership for tape processing

TS7720 offers large scalable cache for workloads requiring rapid recall

Maximum of 1024 virtual drives² 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

Up to four TS7700s can be configured to participate in a GRID environment

Helps to support high availability requirements
Helps to enhance availability during planned maintenance, or service or system upgrades
Avoids the transportation of cartridges in the event of a disaster

TS7740 supports TS1130, TS1120 tape drive-based encryption

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

² In a 4 Cluster GRID configuration

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