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IBM Virtualisation Engine TS7530

Open Systems Virtualisation for IT Optimisation and Simplification

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Highlights

  • Simplify the backup and restore process by incorporating IBM servers, disk and tape into an integrated appliance
  • Optional high availability features for redundancy
  • Improve growth management up to 1.7 PB
  • Investment protection with innovation that matters
  • Manage data growth and cost
  • Reduce backup window
  • Improve restore process
  • High capacity, scalable configurations
  • Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
  • High Performance

The IBM Virtualisation Engine™ TS7530 (TS7530 Server) combines hardware and software into an integrated tiered solution to help provide tape virtualisation for open systems servers connecting over Fibre Channel and iSCSI physical connections. When combined with real tape resources for longer term data storage, the TS7530 Server can help provide an increased level of operational simplicity and energy efficiency, support a low cost of ownership and increase reliability to provide significant operational efficiencies.

One of the biggest challenges for backup planning is the growing amount of data requiring backup, while the time allotted for a backup (the backup window) is shrinking or remaining static. The TS7530 Server offers high-performance and scaleable configurations to help address those challenges.

The IBM Virtualisation Engine TS7530 solution is a high-performance, high-capacity open systems virtual tape solution designed to augment the tape backup and restore process in large tape environments.

The TS7530 Server can help improve business continuity by supporting better restore time. The TS7530 helps reduce restore time by utilising the data resident on disk. With support for up to 4,096 virtual tape drives and 512 virtual tape libraries, each backup server can be allocated its own virtual resources, allowing multiple and disparate backup applications to use the same physical resources. This offers the potential for infrastructure simplification. Various multiple tape libraries and tape drives can be aggregated to one or more TS7530s, helping centralise the backup resources and further reduce the operational cost.

Common features

  • Heterogeneous server support
  • Command Line Interface GUI
  • Failover/failback
  • Control Path Failover/Data Path Failover
  • Supports TS1120 drive encryption
  • Supports IBM LTO-4 drives and libraries

Hardware summary

  • Up to 2 base frames and 10 expansion frames
  • One, two or four 3954-CV7 servers
  • Up to 3.4 PB capacity with 2:1 Compression
  • Four FC ports per server
  • Physical tape export
  • Physical attach TS3500, TS3200, TS3310, 3494
  • Hardware compression
  • High availability configurations
  • On demand allocation of disk

Feature Benefits
Remote Copy
  • Allows for the copied tape to reside on a remote TS7530 or vault
Scalable Configuration
  • Allows for extensive data growth
  • 9.75 TB to 1.7 PB uncompressed, depending on the configuration
Hardware Compression
  • Designed to provide increased performance during backup/restore
  • Helps alleviate CPU cycles in compression mode
Active Failover
  • Designed to provide automated policies for TS7530 node high availability
Control Path & Data Path Failover
  • Allows the TS7530 to provide higher availability to the servers it supports
TS7530 Supports 1, 2 or 4 servers
  • TS7530 Supports 1, 2 or 4 servers
  • Allows for the TS7530 Server to be shared
  • Designed to provide higher performance options
4096 Virtual Drives
  • Allows for faster backup due to virtual resources allocated versus physical tape drives
Encryption Support
  • Designed to provide data security over the network and when the data is at rest on the tape cartridge via the IBM TS1120 Tape Drive

Physical Specifications—TS7530 Server
Width: 483 mm (19 in)
Depth: 711 mm (28 in)
Height: 178 mm ( 7 in)
Weight: 43.2 kg (95.25 lb)
Operating Environment
Temperature: 10 to 35 C, 0 to 900 m, above 900 m, derate upper temperature 1 C/300 m
Recommended 20 to 25° C
Relative Humidity: 8 to 80%
Recommended Relative 40 to 55%
Humidity:  
Maximum wet bulb: 23° C
Altitude (maximum): 2133 m
Heat Output 16,400 Btu/hr (4,800 watts)
Maximum configuration: 4.8 kVA
Operating Systems
The TS7520 Virtualisation Engine supports the following operating systems at the minimum levels indicated 1
  • AIX 5L™ V5.1, V5.2 and V5.3
  • V5R3 and V5R4 i5/OS
  • Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10
  • Microsoft® Windows® 2003 (build 3790, or greater)
  • 64-HP-UX 11iv1 and 11iv2
  • Linux® distributions:
    • xSeries® and Intel® 32-bit servers (x86) and 64-bit servers (ia64) with Linux SLES 10 kernel 2.6.16.21-0.8 bigsmp/smp/up
    • xSeries and Intel 32-bit servers (x86) and 64-bit servers (ia64) with Linux RHEL 4.4 kernel 2.6.9-42.EL hugemem/smp/up
    • xSeries and Intel 32-bit servers (x86) and 64-bit servers (ia64) with Linux SLES 9 SP3 kernel 2.6.5-7.244
    • xSeries and Intel 32-bit servers (x86) with Linux Asianux 2.0 kernel 2.6.9-11.19AX hugemem/smp/up
Specifications
Max No. of Virtual Libraries 128 virtual libraries per server; 512 virtual libraries per system
Max No. of Virtual Drives 1,024 per server; 4,096 per system
Max No. of Virtual Cartridges 64,000 per server; up to 256,000 per system
System Performance Max. Configuration
Read Up to 4,760 MB/sec
Write Up to 4,400 MB/sec
Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression) 3.4 PB Cache Capacity at 2:1 Compression
IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager and other compatible software offerings provide storage and tape management software for the TS7520. Supporting software and applications must be obtained separately from IBM, IBM Business Partners, or ISVs. A list of compatible software is available from your IBM representative or visit: ibm.com /systems/storage/tape

1 List the minimum software level requirements for basic support. Please refer to the technical documentation for specific function or feature support.

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