TS3200 Tape Library Express Model

Highlights

• Designed to support up to two IBM LTO Ultrium Full Height Tape Drives or up to four IBM LTO Ultrium Half Height Tape Drives, to help increase capacity and performance
• Designed to support cost-effective backup, save and restore and archival storage in sequential or random access mode with a standard bar code reader
• IBM Ultrium 4 technology is designed to support encryption of data with 3 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and continues to support write-once, read-many (WORM) operations
• Designed to offer outstanding capacity, performance and reliability for midrange and network tape-storage environments in a 4U form factor with 48 data cartridge slots and a mail slot
• Remote library management through a standard Web interface supports flexibility and greater administrative control of storage operations.

The IBM System Storage TS3200 Tape Library Express Model and its storage management applications are designed to address capacity, performance, data protection, reliability, availability, affordability and application requirements. It is designed as a functionally rich, entry tape-storage solution incorporating LTO Ultrium tape technology. The IBM TS3200 Express model is an excellent solution for large-capacity or high-performance tape backup with or without random access. The TS3200 is also an excellent choice for tape automation for IBM Power Systems, IBM System x and other open systems.

The IBM TS3200 Tape Library Express is well-suited for handling backup, save and restore and archival data-storage needs for small to medium-size environments. With the use of up to two LTO Full Height tape drives or up to four LTO Half-Height tape drives and 48 tape cartridge capacity, the IBM TS3200 model is designed to use LTO technology to cost-effectively handle growing storage requirements. The TS3200 Tape Library is configured with four removable cartridge magazines, two on the left side (24 data cartridge slots) and two on the right (24 data cartridge slots). Additionally, the lower left magazine includes a three-slot input/output (I/O) station to help support continuous library operation while importing and exporting media. A bar-code reader is standard in the library, supporting the library’s operation in sequential or random access mode. The TS3200 also comes standard with remote management capabilities to allow for remote administration of the tape library through a Web interface. Path Failover, an optional feature, is designed to provide automatic control path failover to a preconfigured redundant control path in the event that a host adapter or control path drive is lost without aborting the current job in process.

The IBM Ultrium 4 technology is designed to support encryption of data. The hardware encryption and decryption core and control core resides in the IBM Ultrium 4 tape drive (available to the TS3200 with the 3 Gbps SAS interface). A larger internal data buffer helps improve data access rates and reduce cartridge fill and rewind times along with dynamic channel calibration to help increase data throughput. In addition to reading and writing to LTO Ultrium 4 tape cartridges, the LTO 4 tape drive can read and write to LTO Ultrium 3 cartridges and read LTO Ultrium 2 cartridges with improved data rates. The IBM Ultrium 4 tape drive is designed to support up to 120 MegaBytes per second (MBps) native data-transfer rates and up to 800 GB native physical capacity when using the IBM System Storage Ultrium 800 GB Data Cartridge (1.6 TB with 2:1 compression). The TS3200 featuring Ultrium 4 tape drives has a capacity of up to 38.4 TB native (76.8 with 2:1 compression).

The IBM LTO Ultrium 3 Full Height are designed to support up to 80 MBps native data-transfer rates and Half-Height Tape Drives support up to 60 MBps native data-transfer rates. In addition, the TS3200 featuring Ultrium 3 tape drives has a capacity of up to 19.2 TB (38.4 TB with a 2:1 compression).

The IBM TS3200 Tape Library Express featuring Full Height technology offers an low voltage directive (LVD) Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), 4 Gbps fibre-channel (FC) and 3 Gbps SAS interfaces for ultrium 4 drives (LVD SCSI and 4 Gbps FC for ultrium 3 drives). While Half-Height offers an LVD SCSI or a 3 Gbps SAS interface for Half-Height LTO 3 drives and 3 Gbps SAS interface for Half-Height LTO 4 and can attach to a wide variety of open-system servers. The sequential or random access library comes in a stand-alone or optional rack-mountable configuration. The IBM TS3200 also has an Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) display and indicators for power, drive and activity, error status and message information.

IBM System Storage TS3200 Tape Library Express Model