Can help accelerate backups and recalls by leveraging a tiered hierarchy of disk and tape to more efficiently use tape drives
Can help automate and simplify IT operations using advanced policy management
Can help reduce costs such as power, maintenance, operations and support staff
Supports business continuity by supporting GRID connectivity and automated replication
Supports data encryption and key management
The Challenge:
In order to maintain continuous business operations, address regulatory requirements and archive business records, you need an infrastructure that allows you to manage your data from online application storage to offline, permanent archive media. Tape backup is a key part of this life cycle, allowing you to safely store long term archives for record keeping and disaster recovery. But as data centers and data stores grow, tape backup operations become more complex. This growth can lead to increased backup and restore times, high management overhead and skyrocketing costs.
The Solution: The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700
The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7700 (TS7700 Virtualization Engine) is a mainframe virtual-tape solution that is designed to optimize tape processing. Through the implementation of a fully integrated tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape, the benefits of both technologies can be leveraged to help enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today’s tape processing requirements. Deploying this innovative subsystem may help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead.
The TS7700 Virtualization Engine has been designed to reduce or eliminate a number of bottlenecks that may be present in any given tape environment. Any reduction in bottlenecks will vary depending on the characteristics of installed equipment and workload, but reducing bottlenecks can help reduce batch processing time.
For example, if the batch process is constrained, the TS7700 Virtualization Engine’s processing power, cache capacity and support for 4 Gbps IBM FICON® attachment may help alleviate bottlenecks and reduce the batch window.
Common features2
Hardware summary2
May be attached to supported IBM System z servers
Tiered hierarchy of disk and tape storage
Maximum of 768 virtual drives and 1,000,000 virtual volumes
In order to maintain continuous business operations, address regulatory requirements and archive business records, you need an infrastructure that allows you to manage your data from online application storage to offline, permanent archive media. Tape backup is a key part of this life cycle, allowing you to safely store long term archives for record keeping and disaster recovery. But as data centers and data stores grow, tape backup operations become more complex. This growth can lead to increased backup and restore times, high management overhead and skyrocketing costs.
