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IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Best Practices

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 is a mainframe virtual tape solution implementing a fully integrated, tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape. The purpose of this paper is to describe best practices for the TS7700 based on theoretical data and practical experience. Copy Consistency Point recommendations are described for various...

Tags: Virtualization, Best Practice, Tiered Storage, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700

White papers 2008-04-01

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IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In...

Tags: Failover, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Mainframes, Storage Management, Utility Computing, It Services, Hardware, Servers, Storage

White papers 2008-04-01

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series: Best Practices

The Batch Magic tool is used to size a customer's current workload and to determine the size of the TS7700 needed to handle that workload. The tool determines several aspects of the required TS7700 including the host throughput required, in 100 MB/sec increments, and the number of back-end physical drives...

Tags: Back-end, Best Practice, IBM Corp., Batch Magic Tool, Productivity, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2008-03-01

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Copy Export Function User's Guide Version 1.1

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. One of the key reasons to use tape is for recovery of critical operations in the event of a disaster. The TS7700, in...

Tags: Recovery, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-12-01

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7740 Performance White Paper for Releases 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

The TS7740 is built upon a unit of scalability called a "cluster". The TS7740 is available with a single cluster, or as two or three clusters linked together via a TCP/IP interface, termed a "Grid". Each cluster supports four FICON host channels, 256 virtual tape drives, and up to sixteen...

Tags: Tape Drive, Virtualization, IBM Corp., TS7740, Storage Management, Storage, Performance Management, Tcp/Ip, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking

White papers 2007-11-15

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Bulk Volume Information Retrieval Function User's Guide Version 1.3

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. As the capability of tape virtualization has grown, so has the need to efficiently manage the large number of logical volumes the system...

Tags: Information Retrieval, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-08-01

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series z/OS Host Command Line Request User's Guide Version 1.0

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. Tape virtualization subsystems have become an essential part of most mainframe customer's operations. The IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine, with its virtual tape drives,...

Tags: IBM z/OS, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-08-01

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Encryption Overview Version 1.1

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. Security of the information stored on the backstore tape cartridges has become important to many customers. The IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive...

Tags: Data Encryption, Encryption, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Mainframes, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Servers

White papers 2007-04-01

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Statistical Data Format White Paper Version 1.1

The IBM TotalStorage 3494 Virtual Tape Server VTS revolutionized the way zSeries customers utilized their tape resources. To help the customer monitor the performance of the VTS various statistics were developed. These statistics appeared in two forms, hourly records sent to the hosts known as SMF94 records and periodic real-time...

Tags: Statistics, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Mainframes, Storage Management, Channel Management, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Marketing

White papers 2007-01-01

IBM System Storage Virtualization Engine TS7740 Performance White Paper

This paper provides performance information on the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7740, which is the first product released in the TS7700 Virtualization Engine Series of products. The paper is intended for use by IBM field personnel and their customers in designing virtual tape solutions for their applications. The TS7740 virtualization engine...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Performance, Storage, IBM Corp., TS7740 Virtualization Engine, Performance Management, Virtualization, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-11-22