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 IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server The IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server (VTS) is an enterprise tape solution designed to enhance performance and provide the capacity required for today is backup requirements. The adoption of this solution can help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management cost. A VTS Peer-to-Peer (PtP) configuration can provide redundancy for greater disaster tolerance and help fulfill business continuity requirements. Since its first introduction in 1997, IBM has continually enhanced its VTS offerings in performance, capacity and functionality while offering investment protection of the associated IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Systems 3590, Enterprise Tape Library 3494 and high capacity cartridges. Benefits |
| • | Reduce operating costs, such as power, maintenance, and operations and support staff | | | | | • | Reduce floor space consumed by tape operations | | | | | • | Improve operational quality | | | | | • | Increase the level of tape automation | | | | | • | Improve tape data availability | | | | | • | Reduce the backup window | | | | | • | Provide fast access to data | | | | | • | Share data between diverse servers | | | | | • | Provide remote dual copy for use with Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS), disaster backup and recovery and remote tape vault | | | | | • | Provide Storage Area Network (SAN) attachment | |
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| • | Up to 250,000 logical volumes per VTS and an uncompressed tape storage capacity from 20TB to 240TB per library provides the potential to replace multiple traditional libraries and automate the data on over six thousand tape cartridges. With a VTS, reduced floorspace, power requirements and maintenance costs compared to non-virtualized solutions may be realized. | | | | | • | The VTS Tape Volume Cache is designed to eliminate many of the physical delays associated with tape read/write activities. With up to 256 virtual devices, most of the current bottlenecks associated with the physical movement of data to tape can be eliminated. A VTS runs its own, fully automated storage management subsystem to make sure that the tape data and VTS cache is optimally managed at a minimum of cost. | | | | | • | The VTS is also designed to enhance your current level of data protection and disaster tolerance through either the introduction of an automation device or the installation of a remote VTS - through the ability to eliminate tape cartridge transportation and management. A configuration consisting of two VTSs and coupled by peer-to-peer controllers automatically duplicates your chosen tape data to better support disaster tolerance and business continuity. The coupled VTSs can be installed in two sites up to thousands of kilometers apart using non-IBM channel extender technology. This capability can help minimize your critical system outages in case of a disaster. |
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