IBM System Storage Virtualization Engine Ts7700: Tape Virtualization for System Z Servers - Softcover

IBM Redbooks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738489743 ISBN 13: 9780738489742

Publisher: Vervante, 2007

Synopsis

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700, the newest member of the IBM TS7000 virtualization family, provides tape virtualization for the System z environment. As the follow-on product to the highly successful IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server, the TS7700 Virtualization Engine is designed to provide improved performance and capacity to help lower the total cost of ownership for tape processing. It introduces a new modular, scalable, high-performing architecture for mainframe tape virtualization. The TS7700 Virtualization Engine integrates the advanced performance, capacity, and data integrity design of the 3592 Tape Drives, IBM's industry-leading tape technology, with high-performance disk and a new advanced System p server to form a storage hierarchy managed by robust storage management firmware with extensive self management capability. It includes functions such as advanced policy management to control physical volume pooling, cache management, dual copy, dual copy across a grid network, and copy mode control. The TS7700 offers a new standards-based management interface and enhanced statistical reporting, compared to the VTS. In addition to providing a detailed description of the TS7700 Virtualization Engine, this book discusses the tasks involved with planning, implementing, and operating the TS7700 Virtualization Engine, as well as describing migration considerations. This book covers TS7700 Virtualization Engine R1.0 and R1.1; it will be updated to include subsequent releases of the TS7700 Virtualization Engine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vervante
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0738489743
• ISBN 13: 9780738489742
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 518