December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
12h 14m
English
book
IBM TS4500 R5 Tape Library Guide
by Michael Engelbrecht Larry Coyne Simon Browne, Illarion Borisevich, Robert Beiderbeck
Overview
Abstract
The IBM® TS4500 (TS4500) tape library is a next-generation tape solution that offers higher storage density and integrated management than previous solutions.
This IBM Redbooks® publication gives you a close-up view of the new IBM TS4500 tape library. In the TS4500, IBM delivers the density that today’s and tomorrow’s data growth requires. It has the cost-effectiveness and the manageability to grow with business data needs, while you preserve existing investments in IBM tape library products.
Now, you can achieve both a low cost per terabyte (TB) and a
high TB density per square foot because the TS4500 can store up to
11 petabytes (PB) of uncompressed data in a single frame library or
scale up to 2 PB per square foot to over 350 PB. The TS4500 offers
the following benefits:
High availability: Dual active accessors with integrated service
bays reduce inactive service space by 40%. The Elastic Capacity
option can be used to completely eliminate inactive service
space.
Flexibility to grow: The TS4500 library can grow from the right
side and the left side of the first L frame because models can be
placed in any active position.
Increased capacity: The TS4500 can grow from a single L frame up
to another 17 expansion frames with a capacity of over 23,000
cartridges.
High-density (HD) generation 1 frames from the TS3500 library
can be redeployed in a TS4500.
Capacity on demand (CoD): CoD is supported through entry-level,
intermediate, and base-capacity configurations.
Advanced Library Management System (ALMS): ALMS supports dynamic
storage management, which enables users to create and change
logical libraries and configure any drive for any logical
library.
Support for IBM TS1160 while also supporting TS1155, TS1150, and
TS1140 tape drive: The TS1160 gives organizations an easy way to
deliver fast access to data, improve security, and provide
long-term retention, all at a lower cost than disk solutions. The
TS1160 offers high-performance, flexible data storage with support
for data encryption. Also, this enhanced fifth-generation drive can
help protect investments in tape automation by offering
compatibility with existing automation.
The new TS1160 Tape Drive Model 60E delivers a dual 10 Gb or 25 Gb
Ethernet host attachment interface that is optimized for
cloud-based and hyperscale environments.
The TS1160 Tape Drive Model 60F delivers a native data rate of 400
MBps, the same load/ready, locate speeds, and access times as the
TS1155, and includes dual-port 16 Gb Fibre Channel
support.
Support of the IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 8 tape drive:
The LTO Ultrium 8 offering represents significant improvements in
capacity, performance, and reliability over the previous
generation, LTO Ultrium 7, while still protecting your investment
in the previous technology.
Support of LTO 8 Type M cartridge (M8): The LTO Program is
introducing a new capability with LTO-8 drives. The ability of the
LTO-8 drive to write 9 TB on a brand new LTO-7 cartridge instead of
6 TB as specified by the LTO-7 format. Such a cartridge is called
an LTO-7 initialized LTO-8 Type M cartridge.
Integrated TS7700 back-end Fibre Channel (FC) switches are
available.
Up to four library-managed encryption (LME) key paths per
logical library are available.
This book describes the TS4500 components, feature codes,
specifications, supported tape drives, encryption, new integrated
management console (IMC), and command-line interface (CLI). You
learn how to accomplish the following specific tasks:
Improve storage density with increased expansion frame capacity
up to 2.4 times and support 33% more tape drives per
frame.
Manage storage by using the ALMS feature.
Improve business continuity and disaster recovery with dual
active accessor, automatic control path failover, and data path
failover.
Help ensure security and regulatory compliance with tape-drive
encryption and Write Once Read Many (WORM) media.
Support IBM LTO Ultrium 8, 7, 6, and 5, IBM TS1160, TS1155,
TS1150, and TS1140 tape drives.
Provide a flexible upgrade path for users who want to expand
their tape storage as their needs grow.
Reduce the storage footprint and simplify cabling with 10 U of
rack space on top of the library.
This guide is for anyone who wants to understand more about the IBM
TS4500 tape library. It is particularly suitable for IBM clients,
IBM Business Partners, IBM specialist sales representatives, and
technical specialists.
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.