IBM DS4700 Series User Manual

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Midrange/Enterprise Tape Products

Tape Storage Systems (continued)

Tape Drive

Tape Controller

Tape Library

Tape Virtualization

Enterprise Tape Virtualization

3592

3577

3584

ProtecTIER
Appliance

Virtualization Engine

Product

TS1130

TS1120

TS3400

TS3500

TS7650

TS7530

Machine Type
model

3592
E06
EU6

3592
E05

3592
C06

3577
L5U

3584
L23
D23
S24

3958
AP1

3954
CV7 (requires additional machine types and
models)

Product strengths

Multiplatform support
High performance
High capacity
Data protection

System z attachment of TS1130
and TS1120 drives
High performance

Compact format
Operates in library or autoloader
mode

Multiplatform support
Advanced management
Scalable
High Density (HD) Slot
Technology

Eliminates redundant data by up
to a factor of 25:1

Reduces backup window
Reduces recovery time
High capacity

Number of drives

1–12

1–2

1–192

Up to 256

Up to 1024 (1 node)*
Up to 4096 (4 node)*

WORM/Encryption

yes/yes

no/no

no/yes

Number of cartridges

6260

Up to 500,000

Up to 64,000 (1 node)*
Up to 256,000 (4 node)*

Native capacity

60/100/128 GB (JJ/JR media)
300/500/640 GB (JA/JW media)
700 GB/1 TB (JB/JX media)

60/100 GB (JJ/JR media)
300/500 GB (JA/JW media)
700 GB (JB/JX media)

Up to 18 TB

Up to 6.2 PB

Up to 36 TB useable

Up to 1.7 PB

Typical capacity

384 GB with JJ/JR
1920 GB with JA/JW
3 TB with JB/JX

180/300 GB with JJ/JR
900/1500 GB with JA/JW
2.1 TB with JB/JX

Up to 54 TB

Up to 18.6 PB

Up to 900 TB (nominal capacity
based on a deduplication ration
of 25:1)

Up to 1.7 PB
Up to 2.6 PB

Native performance

Up to 160 MBps

Up to 104 MBps

Varies

Up to 320 MBps

Up to 30.7 GBps

Up to 500 MBps

Up to 4.8 GBps

Interface

4 Gbps

4 Gbps FC

4 GBps FC

4 Gbps FC

Supported tape library

TS3400, TS3500, 3494***

TS3500, TS3310, TS3200, TS3100, 3494***

Platform support

System p, System i, System x,
System z; Microsoft Windows;
HP-UX; Sun Solaris; Linux

System p, System i, System x,
System z, Microsoft Windows,
HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Linux

System p, System i, System x,
System z; Microsoft Windows;
HP-UX; Sun Solaris; Linux

System p, System i, System x,
Microsoft Windows; HP-UX;
Sun Solaris; Linux

System p, System x, System z

, System i

;

Microsoft Windows; HP-UX; Sun Solaris;
Linux

Application support

A B C D E G

A B C D E F G H J L

A B C D E J

See drive

A, B

Media

Refer to Tape Media, page 8

Warranty period

1 year

Warranty type

Onsite Repair (24x7)

Virtual resource specification

for data replication only

***

Product withdrawn from marketing

F/W = Fast/Wide, Diff = Differential, N/A = Not Applicable, FC = Fibre Channel, X = Extended length cartridge, IOE = IBM Onsite Exchange, CRU = Customer Replaceable Unit
NOTES 1: Typical compression for mainframe environments is 3:1; 2:1 for open systems (user results may vary) 2: Max number of 3592 cartridges decreases as tape drives are added 3: IBM AIX 4.1.5 or later. 4: Load and search only 5: Server platforms with SAN-ready attachability, model- and feature-dependent. 6: The latest ISV
support can be found in the connectivity section at

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/library.html#compatibility

. 7: The following vendors provide application support to the platforms defined above: A = IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, B = Symantec Veritas NetBackup, C = Symantec Veritas Backup Exec,

D = EMC Legato NetWorker, E = CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup, F = HP OpenView Storage Data Protector, G = CommVault Galaxy, H = BakBone NetVault, I = LSC, J = IBM BRMS, K = IBM OnDemand, L = Help/Systems Robot/Save, M = LXI Media Management. 8: Performance varies by environment 10: Applies to Linux on System z
using FCP 11: Requires RPQ 12: EE = Enterprise Edition LE = Limited Edition