IBM enterprise class tape products are designed to offer high performance, availability, reliability, and capacity to help meet the needs of customers seeking enterprise class storage solutions for mass storage, data archiving, enterprise backup, and disaster recovery. IBM's enterprise class storage products provide on-demand solutions for business.
The IBM System Storage™ TS1120 Tape Drive offers a tape solution with high capacity, fast access to data and long-term data retention. It is supported in IBM tape libraries, or frames that support stand-alone installations.
Cartridge capacity
Max. drive data rate
Interface
Up to 2.1 TB at 3:1 compression
104 MBps native data rate
Supports both IBM ESCON® and FICON® attachment. Sharing drives optimizes drive utilization and helps to reduce infrastructure requirements.
The IBM System Storage TS1130 Tape Drive offers a tape solution with high capacity, fast access to data and long-term data retention. It is supported in IBM tape libraries, or frames that support stand-alone installations.
Cartridge capacity
Max. drive data rate
Interface
Up to 3 TB at 3:1 compression
160 MBps native data rate
Supports both IBM ESCON® and FICON® attachment. Sharing drives optimizes drive utilization and helps to reduce infrastructure requirements.
The IBM System Storage™ TS7650G ProtecTIER™ Deduplication Gateway solution meets the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The solution offers high-performance inline data deduplication, optional two node clustering, and up to 1 petabyte (PB) of physical storage capacity per system. Combined with IBM storage, the ProtecTIER Gateway solution provides an optimal disk-based target for backup and archive data.
The IBM System Storage™ TS3400 Tape Library is designed to offer the high capacity and performance advantage of the IBM System Storage TS1130 or TS1120 Tape Drives in a small automation footprint for IBM System i™, System p™, System x™, System z™1, IBM Power™ Systems and other open systems environments. The TS3400 tape library is an external 5U standalone or rack–mountable unit that can incorporate up to two tape drives. The library supports a data rate transfer of up to 160 MBps per drive.
No. of drives
Supported platforms
Max. number of cartridges
Max. system capacity (3:1 Compression)
1 to 2
System i, System p, System x, System z1, IBM Power Systems, Microsoft® Windows®, HP–UX, Sun Solaris, Linux®
18
54TB
The IBM System Storage™ TS3500 Tape Library (TS3500 tape library) combines IBM automation and drive technology to provide a highly scalable, automated tape library for IBM System z and open systems backup and archive in midrange to enterprise environments.
No. of drives
Max. number of cartridges
Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression)
Supported platforms
12 per frame (192 per library)
6887 LTO, 6260 3592
11 PB LTO at 2:1 compression, 18.6 PB 3592 at 3:1 compression
IBM AIX®; IBM OS/400®; IBM i; Windows® 2000; Windows Server® 2003; Linux®; Sun Solaris; and HP-UX. IBM z/OS® with the IBM 3953 Tape System
The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7520 (TS7520 Virtualization Engine) combines hardware and software into an integrated solution designed to provide tape virtualization for open systems servers connecting over Fibre Channel physical connections. When combined with physical tape resources for longer term data storage, the TS7520 Virtualization Engine is designed to provide an increased level of operational simplicity and a low cost of ownership and increase reliability to provide significant operational efficiencies.
Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression)
Max No. of Virtual Drives
Max No. of Virtual Libraries
Max No. of Virtual Cartridges
1.76PB Cache Capacity at 2:1 Compression
1,024 per server; 4,096 per system
128 virtual libraries per server; 512 virtual libraries per system
64,000 per server; Up to 256,000 per system
The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7530 (TS7530 Server) combines hardware and software into an integrated solution designed to provide tape virtualization for open systems servers connecting over Fibre Channel physical connections. When combined with physical tape resources for longer term data storage, the TS7530 Server is designed to provide an increased level of operational simplicity and a low cost of ownership and increase reliability to provide significant operational efficiencies.
Max No. of Virtual Libraries
Max No. of Virtual Drives
Max No. of Virtual Cartridges
Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression)
128 virtual libraries per server; 512 virtual libraries per system
1,024 per server; 4,096 per system
64,000 per server; Up to 256,000 per system
3.4 PB Cache Capacity at 2:1 Compression
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.
Supported platforms
IBM System z™
The IBM TotalStorage® Virtual Tape Server Model B10 (B10 VTS) creates virtual tape drives and volumes on a RAID-5 disk to help eliminate many of the physical delays associated with tape I/O and improve the performance of tape processes.
Maximum number of virtual drives
Cartridge capacity: Interface
Interface
Supported platforms
64
Virtual
FICON® or ESCON®
System p™, System z™, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Sun, HP
The IBM TotalStorage® Virtual Tape Server Model B20 (B20 VTS) is an enterprise tape solution designed to enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today's backup requirements. Adoption of this solution can help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead. Automation of a larger portion of a company's data storage may also be facilitated in a shorter period of time.
Maximum number of virtual drives
Cartridge capacity
Interface
Supported platforms
256
Virtual
FICON® or ESCON®
System p™, System z™, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Sun, HP
The IBM TotalStorage® 3494 Tape Library is a flexible design that enables organizations to install a solution that helps address current capacity requirements and to add capacity when required. Configurations include a Library Base Frame that may be configured with drive frames, storage frames and up to two IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Servers.
Number of drives
Max number of cartridges
Max system capacity (Compressed)
Supported platforms
128
6,240
3.12PB
System z™, System p™, System i™ and System x™ servers running IBM operating systems and Linux®. Open system servers from Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, Intel® processor-based systems running Microsoft® Windows® NT®, 2000 and 2003
1 Native / Compressed Capacity: The usable capacity of a cartridge is dependent on the environment that it is used in and the compressibility of the data and is typically 2x in an open system environment and 3x in a System z9 environment 2 Native / Compressed Performance: The performance of a tape drives is dependent on the environment that it is used in and the compressibility of the data as well as other factors such as the generation of Storage Are Network. 3 System z support for Linux only using FCP
