HP EML E-series Tape Libraries - Manual (Page 7)

1 Library overview
The HP Enterprise Modular Library (EML) E-Series Tape Libraries provide performance, reliability
and investment protection for your data protection needs. With up to 16 HP LTO tape drives, the
EML E-Series boasts native throughput of over 6.9 TB/hr. Based on the HP Extended Tape Library
Architecture (ETLA), controllers help to ensure that rogue I/O requests do not interrupt the backup
or recovery job in progress. Additionally, the hardware itself is very reliable, designed for 24x7
environments. Investment protection is achieved through the addition of expansion modules, the
EML E-Series library scales within the library footprint to 16 drives and 442 slots for maximum
performance, or 8 drives and 505 slots for maximum capacity.
The EML E-Series Tape Libraries contain the following features:
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Scalable capacity from 71 slots to 505 slots
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Scalable performance up to 16 Ultrium tape drives with 442 slots
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Interface controllers protect tape drives from SAN events
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Remote management via Command View for Tape Libraries software or the command line
interface
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Easy to use touch screen graphical user interface
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User configurable load ports with removable magazines
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Certified under the HP Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS)
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Factory and field rack configurations
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2,000,000 mean swaps between failure
Available configurations
You can order the library in the following configurations.
Table 1 EML configurations
Number of
possible
tape drives Configurable
reserved
slots Configurable
load port
slots (in Maximum
slots
available Height in
“U” Illustration Configuration
multiples of
5)
1–4 0 0–5 71 12 71e1 base modulefield racked
1–4 0–9 0–5 103 12 103e1 base modulefactory
racked
Available configurations 7