HP Linear Tape File System Software - Manual (Page 8)

• Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) through better utilization and reduced need for unused
capacity
• Justify capacity increases with real data about usage.
• Maintain equipment with minimum disruption by:
• Knowing the remaining expected life of drives and tapes, and planning ahead for possible
maintenance and replacement.
• Finding out the health of drives and tapes, and about issues before hard failures occur.
• Receiving proactive advice on corrective actions.
• Finding out about the quality of backup data and its viability for long term storage. Receive
timely warnings and take pre-emptive action for any real issues.
• Reduce total cost of ownership through reduced downtime and disruption
Although these are normally considered enterprise features, they apply equally to all applications of
tape based backup and are therefore available with all HP LTO-based devices, from standalone drives
to enterprise class libraries.
Architecture
TapeAssure incorporates HP’s industry-leading diagnostic tool, L&TT, into the data collection solution.
The LTFS driver pulls an L&TT support ticket from the drive whenever a cartridge is unmounted and
uses the TapeAssure LTFS service to send it to CommandView TL. Within Command View TL another
form of L&TT runs a full diagnostic analysis on the tape drive, tape, and data.
Standalone TapeAssure with LTFS
Backup Server
TapeAssure LTFS Service
Management Station
CVTL TapeAssure
Ticket data flow
Browser
Ticket
store
HP LTFS
driver
HBA driver
SCSI driver
Application
Ticket
Transport
Ticket
store
Ticket
Transport
TapeAssure
DB
Embedded
LTT Ticket
Parsing
Data
Processing &
Presentation
Application data flow
Figure 1 TapeAssure architecture for standalone tape drives
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