The 3590 models B1A, E1A, and H1A
are designed for automated
tape libraries, including the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Automated Tape Library
3494, IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server, and StorageTek Silos. A 3494 with
the 3590 E1A drive capacity is up to 1,122TB*
High performance tape drives for automated tape libraries
Designed for use in the 3494 Tape Library, Virtual Tape Server
and other automated tape libraries for up to 150GB per hour of compressed backup
per tape drive
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Two tape drive models to choose from for automation providing
capacity and performance options
Model B1A supports up to 20GB per cartridge and 9MB/second
data rate uncompressed.
Model E1A supports up to 40GB per cartridge and 14MB/second
data rate uncompressed.
Model H1A supports up to 60GB per cartridge and 14MB/second
data rate uncompressed.
The 3590 models B11, E11, and H11 are rack-mounted tape drives
with an Automatic Cartridge Facility (ACF).
The 10 cartridge ACF allows the drives to be used as a
mini-library with access up to 1.8TB* of data.
The 3590 B11/ E11/H11 can be converted to a B1A / E1A/H11 for
use in a fully automated library system
Mini - library support for distributed stand alone server
environments
10 slot cartridge auto loader for sequential or random access
to up to 1.8TB of compressed data
Integrated operator / service display showing device status,
activities, error conditions and messages.
3590 Models B11, E11, and H11 for
standalone "mini" library configurations in racks and frames or Models B1A, E1A,
and H1A as part of the 3494 Tape Library.
Up to 42MB per second or 150GB
per hour sustained data throughput (3590 Model E Fibre Channel drive with
3:1 compression)
3590 Model E and H drives can be
configured with dual Fibre ports for up to 100MB per second bus data burst
rates, drive sharing capabilities, and SAN failover support for AIX servers1
Native FICON connectivity for
high performance and a reduction in tape operation infrastructure
3590 Model A60, in addition to
ESCON, now provides native FICON connections for selected zSeries and S/390
servers. One FICON connection can do similar work as four ESCON connections.
3590 Silo Compatible Tape Drive
Frames are implemented in StorageTek Silo tape libraries for multiple
computing environments including SCSI, Fibre, ESCON or Native FICON
Upgrade a Model B to a Model E
and get up to double the capacity on existing cartridges and up to 50% more
performance potential.
Upgrade a Model E to a Model H
and get up to 50 percent more capacity on existing cartridges with the same
performance.
Upgrade a Model B to a Model H
and get up to triple the capacity on existing cartridges and up to 50% more
performance potential.
Native SAN connections for high
speed tape data processing, drive sharing, and storage consolidation
1AIX
High Availability Failover provides an exclusive failover mechanism in the
AIX tape device driver that allows you to configure multiple redundant paths
in a SAN environment to E and H Model Tape Drives having Fibre Channel
Attachment. In the event of a path or component failure, the failover
mechanism is designed to automatically provide error recovery to retry the
current operation using an alternate, preconfigured path without aborting
the current job in progress. This allows you flexibility in SAN
configuration, availability and management.
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Enhanced tape sharing
with cross enterprise attachment
Attaches to IBM eServer
iSeries (AS/400), pSeries (RS/6000), xSeries (NUMA-Q), zSeries
(S/390), Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Intel-based systems
running Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and more
Flexible implementation
with support for multiple attachments
3590 is supported for
native attachment to Ultra SCSI, Fibre Channel, ESCON and FICON
servers
High Capacity for reduced space
consumption and reduced tape cartridge handling
Uses 3590 extended
length tape cartridge for up to 120GB of 3:1 compressed data per
cartridge
Support for improved
data integrity and reliability for mission critical data
3590 tape drive
technology includes advanced Error Correction Code (ECC), servo
track mechanisms, resident diagnostics, redundant parity checking,
and read after write verification
Highlights
•
ESCON® and FICON™ tape solution
•
Designed for high performance, capacity, and
reliability
•
Higher performance with FICON long wavelength or
short wavelength attachments than ESCON
The IBM
TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3590 consists of a family of
powerful integrated storage solutions that combine high capacity,
performance, and reliability for stand-alone and automated
enterprise-attached systems. With native FIbre CONnection (FICON)
attachment, the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Controller 3590 Model
A60 can provide even greater improvements in tape performance and
attachment distance when compared with Enterprise System CONnection
(ESCON).
3590
Tape System
The 3590 Model
A60 Controller, with up to four times the performance of the Model A50,
is designed for leading-edge, high- performance ESCON and FICON
attachment of the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3590 to S/390
enterprise servers and zSeries 900 servers. Using IBM Seascape®
architecture to combine widely accepted IBM components RS/6000® base,
AIX® operating system, PowerPC® 604E microprocessors, and PCI bus
architecture the Model A60 is designed for high performance and enables
resource sharing to help reduce hardware and infrastructure costs.
The 3590 A60 Controller attaches to 3590 Model B or Model E Tape Drives
via a standard Ultra SCSI interface. The 3590 A60 Controller offers a
Fibre Channel feature for attaching 3590 Model E Tape Drives with the
Fibre Channel interface using the IBM 2109 S16 SAN Fibre Channel Switch.
The 3590 Model E Tape Drive provides an uncompressed data rate of up to
14 MB/sec, approximately 55 percent faster than the 3590 Model B.
The 3590 is designed to reduce job processing time, as well as cartridge
and equipment requirements all at an affordable price for Data Facility
Hierarchical Storage Manager (DFSMShsm™), master file processing, volume
dumps, image storage, and other uses.
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Solution
flexibility
3590 Tape
Drives are the foundation of a variety of storage solutions from
stand-alone (3590 A14 or standard racks) to automated (IBM TotalStorage
Enterprise Automated Tape Library 3494, including the IBM TotalStorage
Virtual Tape Server) solutions. As a reusable storage asset, 3590 Tape
Drives and the Model A60 Controller can also operate with StorageTek
Automated Cartridge Systems (ACS), helping to extend the 3590 investment
even further.
Increased
cartridge capacity
The 3590 High Performance
Tape Cartridge has a native capacity of 10 GB on Model B and 20 GB on
Model E Tape Drives. The Lempel-Ziv data compression technique provides
capacity up to 30 GB on Model B and 60 GB on Model E Tape Drives. The
3590 Extended High Performance Tape Cartridge has a native capacity of
20 GB on Model B and 40 GB on Model E Tape Drives. The LZ1 data
compression technique provides capacity of up to 60 GB on Model B and
120 GB on Model E Tape Drives.
New 3590 A60 hardware enhancements can help improve application
performance and capacity utilization. Now, applications operating in
3490 E emulation mode that write small blocks can exploit the capacity
of the 3590 Model E and extended length cartridge. This capacity
enhancement can also be exploited by DFSMShsm.
The high capacity of the media can result in fewer tape mounts and fewer
cartridges required to store a given amount of data. This translates
into less floor space required for cartridge storage.
ESCON
and FICON channel attachments
The 3590 A60
Controller includes one to four dual-ported ESCON channel attachment
features, providing attachment to as many as eight ESCON channels. Now,
with native FICON support, up to two FICON long wavelength or short
wavelength attachment features are supported on the A60 Controller,
providing attachment to one or two FICON channels. The FICON maximum
channel link speed of 100 MB/sec full duplex (versus 17 MB/sec simplex
for ESCON) helps enhance tape drive performance. Both ESCON and FICON
attachments are supported on the Model A60, enabling 3590 Tape Drives to
be shared between ESCON and FICON servers. Each ESCON or FICON channel
can support up to 64 logical channels, with multiple logical paths per
MVS® image.
The 3590 A60 now supports high-speed location to relative file position.
This capability can significantly improve read performance for
file-stacking applications that access by file number rather than block
ID. The A60 also offers significantly improved write performance for
applications that stack multiple small files on a tape. The performance
gain is achieved through the elimination of costly redundant, rewritten
tape marks, and the associated backhitch. These new performance
capabilities of the hardware can be exploited by OS/390(R) and z/OS® and
are designed to be transparent to the user application.
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Cost
effectiveness
The IBM
TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3590's large capacity and high
performance means that significantly fewer resources such as hardware,
tape cartridges, floor space, shelf space, and automation slots are
required. The high performance of FICON enables multiple ESCON channels
to be replaced with a single FICON channel. The resulting reduced
infrastructure of fewer channels, director ports, and channel addresses
on the server can help lower storage costs.
The advanced 3590 Tape Drive
is designed for increased data integrity by using improved Error
Correction Code (ECC) and factory-written servo tracks for precise head
positioning.
The 3590 uses a bidirectional longitudinal serpentine recording
technique and a fourth-generation magneto-resistive head that reads and
writes 16 data tracks at a time.
The 3590 Model A60 is designed with redundant power supplies with
automatic failover and hot-swap replacement capabilities, which help
prevent outages and improve reliability and availability.
To help prevent outages, the IBM “Call Home” function can automatically
open a service alert when a problem occurs with an A60 Controller. A
service representative can be sent to the installation and status
information can be transmitted to the IBM Support Center for evaluation.
In addition, the “Call Home”function can send alerts to a pager service
so that multiple people can be notified. “Call Home”is supported on the
A60 Controller in stand-alone, Silo Compatible Frames, and 3494
solutions.
Investment
protection
To help provide
investment protection, existing 3590 Model B11 and B1A Tape Drives can
be field-upgraded for a charge to the new E models. Media investment is
also preserved, because the new Model E Tape Drives can read and reuse
existing cartridges.
FICON is an option on new and currently installed 3590 A60 Controllers.
An A60 with FICON is supported with 3590 Model B or E Tape Drives, as
well as in current tape libraries and frames further preserving existing
investments in tape hardware.
3590
Tape Drives
The 3590 Model
B11 and E11 are frame- or rack-mounted and incorporate a 10-cartridge
Automated Cartridge Facility (ACF) for high-capacity (up to 1.2 TB for
Model E11s) unattended operation. The 3590 B1A and E1A are designed to
be used in a IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Automated Tape Library 3494,
IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server, and IBM TotalStorage Silo
Compatible Tape Drive Frame.
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Ease
of use
With the 3590
B11 or E11, cartridges are loaded into and unloaded from the ACF in a
convenient, portable 10-cartridge magazine. The ACF has multiple modes
of operation accumulate, automatic, manual, and system all of which can
be selected from the operator display. 3590 Tape Drives feature an
operator/service display showing device status, activities, error
conditions, and messages.
Configurations
The 3590 A60
Controller is part of the following solutions.
Non-library usage: Up to four 3590 Model B11 or
E11 Tape Drives along with one 3590 Model A60 Controller can be
installed in a 3590 A14 frame.
IBM automation solutions: Up to four 3590 Model
B1A or E1A Tape Drives can be installed in a 3494 D14 frame with a
3590 A60 Controller.
StorageTek automation solutions: One or two 3590
A60 Controllers can be installed in a 3590 C10 frame. Each controller
can attach to a 3590 C12 frame, which contains up to four 3590 Model
B1A or E1A Tape Drives.
Adjacent
frame and multiframe support
The adjacent frame support
features on the Enterprise Tape Library 3494 enable 3590 Tape Drives
residing in a 3494 D12, L12, or L14 frame to attach to a 3590 A60 in an
adjacent 3494 D14 frame. Up to 10 3590 Tape Drives can attach to a
single 3590 A60 in a 3494 solution.
Multiframe options are available for the 3590 Model A60 in stand- alone
rack, frame, and Silo Compatible Frame solutions. This support enables a
single A60 to attach to up to eight SCSI- attached 3590 drives or up to
twelve Fibre Channel-attached drives. These expanded attachment options
for the 3590 Model A60 make it very cost-effective compared to other
tape solutions.
S/390
software for ESCON
OS/390 Version 2.6 or higher, z/OS Version 1.1
or higher, and associated level of DFSMS
VM/ESA(R) Version 2.3 or higher or z/VM(R)
Version 3.1 or higher
VSE/ESA(tm) Version 2.3 or higher
TPF 4.1 or higher (3590 B Models)
Software
for FICON
The 3590 A60
Controller with native FICON is supported with various levels of OS/390,
z/OS, VM/ESA, z/VM, VSE/ESA, and TPF.
Storage
management software
Tivoli® Storage Manager (formerly ADSM) is a
client/server storage management solution that provides save and
restore functions for workstations and LAN file servers. This storage
management solution utilizes the full capacity of 3590 media,
requiring far fewer cartridges than with 3480 cartridges.
DFSMShsm provides backup and restore functions
and automatic migration/recall of data between tape and disk based on
user-defined policies. This enables MVS/ESA users to migrate seldom
referenced data to tape and get it back to disk automatically upon
reference.
DFSMSdss™ uses 3590 Tape Drives for MVS/ESA
full-volume dumps, restores, and data set operations.
The capacity and performance advantages of the
3590 Model A60 can also be exploited by numerous applications offered
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IBM TotalStorage
Enterprise Tape System 3590 at a glance
FICON long wavelength maximum
distances (unrepeated)
na
na
10km 20km(RPQ)
na
na
na
FICON short wavelength maximum
distances (unrepeated)
na
na
500 m
na
na
na
Number of ESCON interfaces
na
na
Up to 8
na
na
na
Number of FICON interfaces
na
na
Up to 2
na
na
na
Packaging
Library, rack-mount, or frame mount.
Rack, frame
Library, frame
Library, rack, frame
Frame for B11,B1A, E11, E1A
Rack, frame
Library, frame
Operating Environment
Temperature with media in use 60° F
to 90° F (16° C to 32° C)
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Relative humidity (20% to 80%)
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Wet bulb maximum (73.4° F; 23° C)
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Heat output (BTU/hr)
1024
1024
1700
.341
770
770
Power requirements (kVA)
0.300
0.300
0.500
0.100
0.225
0.225
¹ B Models use eight sets
of 16 tracks; E Models use 16 sets of tracks
² Depending on data content, with 3:1 LZ1 data compression
³ Depending on library model, since B1A and E1A Models reside in an
IBM Magstar 3494 (or in a C12 or C14 frame for the StorageTek 4410
or 9310 ACS)
IBM TotalStorage
Enterprise Tape System 3590 dimensions
IBM TotalStorage™ Enterprise Tape Controller 3590 Model
A60
The 3590 Model A60 Controller allows the attachment of high performance
and high capacity 3590 Tape Drives to ESCON and FICON Servers. It
provides enhanced performance and connectivity as compared to prior
offerings.
Benefits
designed to provide:
Highlights
•
Native FICON Attachment for
more distance, performance and reduced tape storage infrastructure.
•
3590 Model A60, in addition
to ESCON, provides 1 or 2 Native FICON server connections
•
More ESCON Attachments for
increased job production
•
The A60 provides up to 8
ESCON attachments vs. 2 on the A50 Controller
•
Outstanding drive sharing
and tape storage consolidation for reduced solution costs
•
Up to 12 Fibre Channel
attached 3590 tape drives or 8 Ultra SCSI attached drives to a single
A60 Tape Controller vs. 4 SCSI attached tape drives on the A50 Tape
Controller
•
Full media capacity
utilization when 3490E emulation mode is used
•
This capability can be
exploited by the DFSMShsm application and is especially important to
customers that utilize IBM TotalStorage Silo Compatible Tape Drive
Frames since many drives in the silo environment are used in 3490E
emulation mode
•
More overall performance for
reduced investment costs and enhanced data protection
•
With a faster processor,
more attachments, high-speed positioning and fast small file write
operations, the A60 Tape Controller can do up to 4 times the work of an
A50 Tape Controller
