Virtualization Engine TS7700
Highlights
- Can help reduce costs such as power, maintenance, operations and support staff
- Can help automate and simplify IT operations using advanced policy management
- Supports business continuity through GRID connectivity and automated replication
- TS7740 can help accelerate backups and recalls by using a tiered hierarchy of disk and tape to make more efficient use of tape drives
- TS7720 provides a cache-centric solution for frequently accessed data.
The challenge:
In order to maintain continuous business operations, address regulatory requirements and archive business records, you need an infrastructure that enables you to manage your data from online application storage to offline, permanent archive media. Tape is a key part of both the backup and archive lifecycle. Tape provides the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) alternative for securely storing long-term archives for record keeping and disaster recovery (DR). As data centres and data stores grow, manual tape operations can become more complex. This growth can lead to increased backup and restore times and higher management overhead and costs.
IBM Virtualisation Engine TS7700 is the solution
The IBM Virtualisation Engine TS7700 (TS7700 Virtualisation Engine) is a family of mainframe virtual-tape solutions that are designed to optimise tape processing. With one solution, the implementation of a fully integrated tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape leverages the benefits of both technologies to help enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today’s tape processing requirements. Deploying this innovative subsystem can help reduce batch processing time, TCO and management overhead.
Common features1
- May be attached to supported IBM System z servers
- Maximum of 1024 virtual drives and 1,000,000 virtual volumes
- Web-based management tools
- Advanced policy management
- IBM TS3000 System Console
Hardware summary1
- TS7740
- Up to 115.2 TeraByte (TB) Raw Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) array cache
- Attach up to 64 TS1100 or 3592 tape drives
- Up to 16 4 Gigabits per second (Gbps) FICON channels
- TS7720
- Up to 1776 TB native tape volume cache using 2 TB Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drives
- Up to 16 4 Gbps FICON channels
1 In a 4 Cluster GRID configuration, not all cache is useable
