IBM Enterprise Tape Systems

IBM enterprise class tape products are designed to offer high performance, availability, reliability, and capacity to help meet the needs of customers seeking enterprise class storage solutions for mass storage, data archiving, enterprise backup, and disaster recovery. IBM's enterprise class storage products provide on-demand solutions for business.

IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive

The IBM System Storage™ TS1120 Tape Drive offers a tape solution with high capacity, fast access to data and long-term data retention. It is supported in IBM tape libraries, or frames that support stand-alone installations.

IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive Brochure (pdf - 56Kb)

• Cartridge capacity - Up to 2.1 TB at 3:1 compression.
• Max. drive data rate - 104 MBps native data rate.
• Interface - Supports both IBM ESCON® and FICON® attachment. Sharing drives optimizes drive utilization and helps to reduce infrastructure requirements.

IBM System Storage TS3400 Tape Library

The IBM System Storage™ TS3400 Tape Library is designed to offer the high capacity and performance advantage of the IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive in a small automation footprint for IBM System i™, System p™, System x™, System z™1 and other open systems environments. The TS3400 tape library is an external 5U standalone or rack-mountable unit that can incorporate up to two TS1120 tape drives. The library supports a data rate transfer of up to 104 MBps per drive.

IBM System Storage TS3400 Tape Library Brochure (pdf - 53Kb)

• No. of drives - 1 to 2.
• Supported platforms - System i, System p, System x, System z1, Microsoft® Windows®, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Linux®.
• Max. number of cartridges - 18.
• Max. system capacity (3:1 Compression) - 37.8TB

IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library

The IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library (TS3500 tape library) combines IBM automation and drive technology to provide a highly scalable, automated tape library for IBM System z and open systems backup and archive in midrange to enterprise environments.

IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library Brochure (pdf - 53Kb)

• Max. number of cartridges - 6887 LTO, 6260 3592.
• No. of drives - 12 per frame (192 per library).
• Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression) - 5,50PB, (11PB) LTO, 4.38PB (8.76PB) 3592.
• Supported platforms - IBM AIX; IBM OS/400; IBM i5/OS; Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Linux; Sun Solaris; and HP-UX. IBM z/OS with the IBM 3953 Tape System.

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510 combines hardware and software into an integrated solution designed to provide tape virtualization for open systems servers connecting over Fibre Channel physical connections. The TS7510 combines IBM server technology, disk technology, tape technology with specially developed software that emulates tape libraries, tape drives, and tape media.

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510 Brochure (pdf - 53Kb)

• Max No of Virtual Libraries - 64 virtual libraries.
• Max No. of Virtual Drives - per node 128, virtual libraries per system.
• Max No. of Virtual Cartridges - 512 per server node, 1,024 per system.
• Max. number on concurrent backups - 16 per server node, 32 per system.
• Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression) - 96TB Cache Capacity at 2:1 Compression.
• Supported platforms - AIX 5L™ V5.1, or later Sun Solaris 7, 8, or 9 Microsoft® Windows® 2000 (build 2195, or greater) Microsoft Windows 2003 (build 3790, or greater) HP-UX 11.00, 11i (64 bit), and HP-UX 23pi Linux® distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and 4.0 (RHEL 3.0 and 4.0 ) and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 and 9 (SLES 8 and 9).

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7520

The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7520 (TS7520 Virtualization Engine) combines hardware and software into an integrated solution designed to provide tape virtualization for open systems servers connecting over Fibre Channel physical connections. When combined with physical tape resources for longer term data storage, the TS7520 Virtualization Engine is designed to provide an increased level of operational simplicity and a low cost of ownership and increase reliability to provide significant operational efficiencies.

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7520 Brochure (pdf - 53Kb)

• Max No. of Virtual cartridges - 32,000 per server server; 128,000 per system.
• Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression) - 1.76PB Cache Capacity at 2:1 Compression.
• Max No. of Virtual drives - 1,024 per server server; 4,096 per system.
• Max No. on concurrent backups - 16 per server node; 32 per system.
• Max No. of Virtual Libraries - 128 virtual libraries per server; 512 virtual libraries per system.

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700

The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7700 (TS7700 Virtualization Engine) is a mainframe virtual-tape solution that is designed to optimize tape processing. Through the implementation of a fully integrated, tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape, the benefits of both technologies can be leveraged to help enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today’s tape processing requirements. Deploying this innovative subsystem may help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead.

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Brochure (pdf - 53Kb)

• Supported platforms - IBM System z™.

Virtual Tape Server Model B10

The IBM TotalStorage® Virtual Tape Server Model B10 (B10 VTS) creates virtual tape drives and volumes on a RAID-5 disk to help eliminate many of the physical delays associated with tape I/O and improve the performance of tape processes.

Virtual Tape Server Model B10 Brochure (pdf - 53Kb)

• Maximum number of virtual drives: - 64.
• Cartridge capacity: - Virtual.
• Interface: - FICON® or ESCON®.
• Supported platforms: - System p™, System z™, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Sun, HP.

Virtual Tape Server Model B20

The IBM TotalStorage® Virtual Tape Server Model B20 (B20 VTS) is an enterprise tape solution designed to enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today's backup requirements. Adoption of this solution can help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead. Automation of a larger portion of a company's data storage may also be facilitated in a shorter period of time.

Virtual Tape Server Model B20 Brochure (pdf - 53Kb)

• Maximum number of virtual drives: - 256.
• Cartridge capacity: - Virtual.
• Interface: - FICON® or ESCON®.
• Supported platforms: - System p™, System z™, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Sun, HP.

IBM TotalStorage 3494 Tape Library

The IBM TotalStorage® 3494 Tape Library is a flexible design that enables organizations to install a solution that helps address current capacity requirements and to add capacity when required. Configurations include a Library Base Frame that may be configured with drive frames, storage frames and up to two IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Servers.

IBM TotalStorage 3494 Tape Library Brochure (pdf - 53Kb)

• Number of drives - 128.
• Max number of cartridges - 6,240.
• Max system capacity (Compressed) - 3.12PB.
• Supported platforms - System z™, System p™, System i™ and System x™ servers running IBM operating systems and Linux®. Open system servers from Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, Intel® processor-based systems running Microsoft® Windows® NT®, 2000 and 2003.