IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700

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IBM Virtualization
Engine TS7700
Outstanding virtualization capabilities for continuous
data protection of IBM System z data

To provide effective data protection, address regulatory requirements,
Highlights archive business data and ensure high availability for continuous business
operations, organizations need an infrastructure that can help manage
Gain continuous data protection of
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data from online application storage to offline, permanent archive media.
IBM® System z® data for local and
remote data centers through a network Tape is a key part of both the backup and archive lifecycle of data. Tape is
of up to six IBM TS7740 Virtualization the storage option with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for pro-
Engine™ systems interconnected in a grid, tecting data, for securely backing up and storing data both short term and
providing data restoration from any of the
for long-term archives, and for record keeping and disaster recovery.
systems in the grid
As data centers and the data they store grow, data protection can become
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Choose between tape (TS7740) or more complex, involving continuous backup, multiple sites, offsite
tapeless (TS7720) storage for offsite
vaulting of physical tape cartridges recovery, disaster recovery testing and many other processes to insure
your data is protected. This growth can lead to increased backup and
Gain continuous data availability with
restore times as well as higher data management overhead and costs.
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automated replication and automated
recovery

Help automate and reduce the complexity
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IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine is the solution
of IT operations using advanced policy The IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine is a family of mainframe virtual
management tape solutions that optimize data protection and business continuance
for System z data. Through the use of virtualization and disk cache, the
TS7700 family operates at disk speeds while maintaining compatibility
with existing tape operations. The TS7700 family of System z tape
virtualization is offered in two models: the TS7720, which uses only
virtual tape drives and tape cartridge volumes, and the TS7740, which not
only stores the data on virtual tape drives, but also writes data by policy
to physical tape. This fully integrated tiered storage hierarchy of disk
and tape takes advantage of both tape and disk technologies to deliver
performance for active data and best economics for inactive data.
With the TS7740, tape and disk are combined to provide a flexible,

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policy-managed configuration that offers the benefits of both
types of storage. Deploying these innovative models can help
reduce batch processing time, TCO and management
overhead.

The TS7740 Virtualization Engine attaches to and
leverages the performance and capacity of the IBM System
Storage® TS1140, TS1130 and TS1120 tape drives or the
IBM TotalStorage 3592 Model J1A Tape Drive installed in an
IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library. Support for the
TS1140 Tape Drive can reduce the number of cartridges and
the size of the library by supporting the storage of up to 12 TB
on a single 3592 JC cartridge, (assuming 3:1 compression).

The TS7720 Virtualization Engine provides high capacity for
workloads that are not required to additionally be stored on
physical tape. The TS7720 Virtualization Engine features high
capacity cache using 3-TB SATA disk drives with RAID 6 to
allow clients to scale their solution to meet the needs of
growing workloads without affecting application availability.

The TS7700 Virtualization Engine family has been designed to
help enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for
today’s tape processing requirements.
The TS7700 can work with the IBM z/OS® operating system
Data protection and retention for your to direct workloads to a particular TS7700 system (called a
mainframe environments cluster) in a multi-TS7700 interconnected grid configuration
The TS7700 Virtualization Engine supports IBM System z for given workloads such as scratch allocation, allowing users to
servers using 4 Gbps IBM FICON® at distances of up to choose which clusters should be candidates for scratch mounts
100 km (62 mi) using channel directors or switches, up to given a specific management class definition, directing the
250 km (155 mi) using dense wavelength division multiplexing workload efficiently in hybrid configurations.
or extended distances using supported channel extension
products.

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Protect your business with TS7700 grid Ensure data security and regulatory
continuity compliance
The grid communication feature allows interconnection of up Designed to keep data more secure and help meet regulatory
to six TS7700 Virtualization Engines of like model or a combi- guidelines, the TS7700 Virtualization Engine provides
nation of both TS7740 and TS7720 models to form a grid end-to-end data encryption. Encryption starts from the point
configuration, or merging of two existing multicluster grids to where data is stored in the TS7700 system cache, goes across
form a single, larger grid. This TS7700 function is comparable IP connections to remote TS7700 systems (through Internet
function to the IBM System Storage Metro/Global Mirror. Protocol Security), and ends with data stored in the cache
Since TS7700 systems typically reside in different locations for of other nodes (TS7720 and TS7740) or tape cartridges
better disaster recovery, grid communication is designed to help (TS7740 only). With this feature, the TS7700 Virtualization
keep data available, even if one of the remote sites experiences Engine offers industry-standard encryption of data transferred
an outage. This helps maintain availability during planned between TS7700 systems.
maintenance, service or system upgrades, and it helps avoid
the physical transportation of tape cartridges in the event of a To help keep information confidential if backup tapes are lost
disaster. The grid configuration also allows an administrator to or compromised, the TS7740 Virtualization Engine supports
use a TS7740 as an archival installation for a TS7720, with full TS1140, TS1130 and TS1120 tape drive encryption capabili-
back-end physical tape functionality. ties. The TS1140, TS1130 and TS1120 tape drives include data
encryption capabilities in the drives, helping to avoid the need
The TS7700 grid feature includes multiple modes of synchro- for host-based encryption of data—and the concurrent drain on
nous and asynchronous replication. This can be assigned to host performance and resources—or the additional expense of
volumes through the IBM Data Facility Storage Management specialized encryption appliances.
Subsystem policy, providing flexibility in implementing
business continuity solutions. The IBM Tivoli® Key Lifecycle Manager can generate and
manage encryption keys for TS1140, TS1130 and TS1120 tape
Simpler to manage with a new graphical drives across the enterprise. Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager
user interface delivers advanced, federated, cross-domain key management
A web-based graphical user interface (GUI), based on the designed to help lock down organizational data more compre-
IBM XIV® disk system interface, is provided to configure hensively and easily than ever.
and monitor the TS7700 Virtualization Engine. The GUI is
used to access information such as the current system status To help support the long-term retention of reference data and
and resource usage statistics. This revised interface has been meet the requirements of regulatory bodies worldwide, micro-
designed to make more efficient use of a storage administrators’ code capabilities enable the TS7700 Virtualization Engine to
time in configuring and managing the TS7700 models while support a virtual equivalent of write-once-read-many (WORM)
also helping reduce the time needed to train new administrators tape media.
in using the TS7720 or TS7740.

For service, a separate tool is required. The IBM TS3000
System Console allows IBM service personnel to perform
maintenance. If authorized or enabled by the client, the tool
can remotely monitor the installation and automatically dis-
patch a service representative if needed.

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The performance and availability of your storage environment and a broad portfolio of storage-proven software, hardware and
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where IBM comes in. As a market leader in the storage indus- leadership—are just a few of the reasons why you should
try, we can help you handle the challenges that your network or consider IBM storage offerings.
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IBM TS7740 Virtualization Engine at a glance
Specifications Single node 2 cluster grid 3 cluster grid 4 cluster grid 5 cluster grid 6 cluster grid
Usable RAID array cache* (TB) Up to 28.8 Up to 57.6 Up to 86.4 Up to 115.2 Up to 144 Up to 172.8
Virtual drives 256 512 768 1.024 1.280 1.536
TS1100 or 3592 tape drives 4 to 16 8 to 32 12 to 48 16 to 64 20 to 80 24 to 96
Virtual volumes 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000
FICON channels 4 8 12 16 20 24
Warranty 1 year on-site – – – – –
repair
Physical specifications
Width 644 mm (25.4 in.)
Depth 1,102 mm (43.4 in.)
Height 1,804 mm (71.0 in.)
Weight 481.9 kg (1,062 lb.)
Supported environments† IBM z/OS v1R11 or higher
IBM z/VM® v5.4 or higher
IBM z/VSE® v4.2 or higher
IBM z/TPF v1.1 or higher

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IBM TS7720 Virtualization Engine at a glance
Specifications Single node 2 cluster grid 3 cluster grid 4 cluster grid 5 cluster grid 6 cluster grid
Usable RAID array cache* (TB) Up to 624 Up to 1,248 Up to 1,872 Up to 2,496 Up to 3,120 Up to 3,744
Virtual drives 256 512 768 1,024 1,280 1,536
Virtual volumes 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000
FICON channels 4 8 12 16 20 24
Warranty 1 year on-site – – – – –
repair
Physical specifications
Width 644 mm (25.4 in.)
Depth 1,102 mm (43.4 in.)
Height 1,804 mm (71.0 in.)
Weight 669.1 kg (1,475 lb.)
Supported environments† IBM z/OS v1R11 or higher
IBM z/VM v5.4 or higher
IBM z/VSE v4.2 or higher
IBM z/TPF v1.1 or higher

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To learn more about the IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine,
please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business
Partner, or visit: ibm.com/systems/storage/virtualization or
ibm.com/systems/storage/tape
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Actual available storage capacity may be reported for both uncompressed
and compressed data and will vary and may be less than stated.

* Not all array cache capacity is useable. Cache capacities would vary
with grid configurations including a combination of both TS7740 and
TS7720 models.
† Lists the minimum software level requirements for basic support.
Please refer to the technical documentation for specific function or
feature support.

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