IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700

Outstanding virtualization capabilities for continuous data protection of IBM System z data

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
  • Can improve application availability and shorten batch processing windows
4,000,000 virtual logical volumes regardless of the number of clusters in the grid
  • 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 (subset)
  • Cache management for volume retention and deletion
  • Volume pooling allows grouping of logical volumes on physically separate cartridges or cartridge pools
  • Copy export logical volumes from standalone and logical write-once-read-many (WORM)
  • Cross-site replication to create a copy of a logical volume at different sites
Up to six TS7700 systems can be configured to participate in a grid environment
  • Helps to support high availability requirements
  • Can enhance availability during planned maintenance, or service or system upgrades
  • Avoids the transportation of cartridges in the event of a disaster
TS7740 supports TS1140, TS1130 and TS1120 tape drive-based encryption
  • Helps secure sensitive at-rest data
Copy export acceleration
  • Improves the speed of large copy export operations
  • Reduced the number of physical volumes which contain a copy of the database used for recovery
TS7700 offers logical WORM capability to help satisfy compliance requirements
  • For companies subject to the requirement of Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 17 - 4, IBM offers this white paper from Cohasset Associates in which Cohasset discusses how the TS7700 can be used as part of an overall records retention infrastructure to meet the requirements of Rule 17a - 4
Synchronous mode copy
  • Provides true synchronous copy through real-time duplexing (local mount and remote mount at the same time)
  • Copy consistency at two locations up to any implicit or explicit sync point providing a zero recovery point objective
Remote mount IP link failover
  • Improved remote read/write operations by utilizing alternate links in the event of path failure
  • If a failure occurs, the failover path searches another IP link to continue the job, without stopping or letting the host and customer realize it

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