IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700

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

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Highlights

  • Gain continuous data protection of IBM System z® data for local and remote data centers through a network of up to six IBM TS7740 Virtualization Engine systems interconnected in a grid, providing data restoration from any of the systems in the grid
  • Choose between tape (TS7740) or tapeless (TS7720) storage for offsite vaulting of physical tape cartridges
  • Gain continuous data availability with automated replication and automated recovery
  • Help automate and reduce the complexity of IT operations using advanced policy management

To provide effective data protection, address regulatory requirements, archive business data and ensure high availability for continuous business operations, organizations need an infrastructure that can help manage data from online application storage to offline, permanent archive media. Tape is a key part of both the backup and archive lifecycle of data. Tape is the storage option with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for protecting data, for securely backing up and storing data both short term and for long-term archives, and for record keeping and disaster recovery. As data centers and the data they store grow, data protection can become more complex, involving continuous backup, multiple sites, offsite recovery, disaster recovery testing and many other processes to insure your data is protected. This growth can lead to increased backup and restore times as well as higher data management overhead and costs.

IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine is the solution

The IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine is a family of mainframe virtual tape solutions that optimize data protection and business continuance for System z data. Through the use of virtualization and disk cache, the TS7700 family operates at disk speeds while maintaining compatibility with existing tape operations. The TS7700 family of System z tape virtualization is offered in two models: the TS7720, which uses only virtual tape drives and tape cartridge volumes, and the TS7740, which not only stores the data on virtual tape drives, but also writes data by policy to physical tape. This fully integrated tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape takes advantage of both tape and disk technologies to deliver performance for active data and best economics for inactive data. With the TS7740, tape and disk are combined to provide a flexible, policy-managed configuration that offers the benefits of both types of storage. Deploying these innovative models can help reduce batch processing time, TCO and management overhead.

Common features

  • May be attached to supported IBM System z servers
  • Maximum 4,000,000 virtual volumes
  • Maximum of 1,536 virtual drives in a 6-way grid configuration
  • Web-based management tools
  • Advanced policy management
  • IBM TS3000 System Console
  • Synchronous mode copy
  • Remote mount IP link failover

Hardware summary

  • TS7740
    • Attach up to 64 TS1100 or 3592 tape drives
    • Up to 16 Gbps IBM FICON® channels
  • TS7720
    • Up to 16 Gbps FICON channels based on 4-cluster grid configurations

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