Preface
This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you with planning, installation, and configuration of the new IBM Linear Tape File System⢠(LTFS) Enterprise Edition (EE) V1R1 for the IBM System Storage® TS3500 Tape Library. LTFS EE is designed to enable the use of LTFS for the policy management of tape as a storage tier in an IBM general parallel file system-based (IBM GPFSâ¢) environment and helps encourage the use of tape as a critical tier in the storage environment.
LTFS EE can run any application that is designed for disk files on tape. LTFS EE supports IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 6 and 5 tape drives, and IBM System Storage TS1140 Tape Drives that are installed in TS3500 tape libraries.
LTFS EE can play a major role in reducing ...