Highlights
- Can help reduce “real” tape mounts, because many mount requests are satisfied from the Tape Volume Cache (TVC)
- Can reduce the number of physical tape cartridges required because of higher utilization of cartridge capacity
- Can help to improve performance due to the elimination of most of the physical movement of tape
- Can help reduce operating costs such as power, maintenance, operations and support staff
- Peer-to-Peer configuration supports business continuity for IBM System z™ environments
- Can help reduce the floor space required to support the tape process as a result of fewer physical resources
The IBM TotalStorage® Virtual Tape Server Model B10 (B10 VTS) is designed to enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today's backup requirements. The B10 VTS can help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and storage management overhead. A large portion of a company's data storage may be automated in a shorter period of time.
The B10 VTS is designed to help reduce or eliminate the number of bottlenecks in a given tape environment, depending on the characteristics of installed equipment and processor workloads. For example, if more drives are needed, up to 64 virtual drives may be configured to meet this need. If cartridge capacity is not fully utilized, the B10 VTS can alleviate this problem by filling the physical cartridge.
The B10 VTS initially creates a virtual volume in a buffer known as the Tape Volume Cache (TVC), a RAID-5 disk array. If these virtual volumes are re-referenced, they are accessed in most instances from the TVC, which helps to eliminate many of the physical delays associated with tape I/O and helps to improve the performance of the tape process.
| Common features
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64 virtual drives and 250,000 virtual volumes
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Advanced policy management, including cache management and volume pooling
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IBM TotalStorage Tape Library Specialist, a web-based user interface to library manager
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Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Server option
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IBM TS3000 System Console for remote management and monitoring
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| Hardware summary
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Up to 1.3 TB tape volume cache
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Up to 4 FICON channels
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Up to 4 ESCON channels
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Up to 12 TS1120 or 3592 tape drives
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