TS7520 Virtualization Engine

Open Systems Virtualization for IT Optimization and Simplification

• Can help simplify the backup/restore process by incorporating IBM servers, disk and tape into an integrated appliance
  
   
• Designed to protect important customer data, with quicker recalls to provide Business Continuity
  
   
• Helps simplify the storage infrastructure by consolidating physical tape drives and libraries into one centralized, high performance tape solution

• Reduce backup window
  
   
• Improve restore process
  
   
• High capacity, scalable configurations
  
   
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
  
   
• High Performance        Request a Quote

The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7520 (TS7520 Virtualization Engine) combines hardware and software into an integrated solution designed to provide tape virtualization for open systems servers connecting over Fibre Channel and iSCSI physical connections. When combined with physical tape resources for longer term data storage, the TS7520 Virtualization Engine is designed to provide an increased level of operational simplicity, support a low cost of ownership and increase reliability to provide significant operational efficiencies.

One of the biggest problems with backup planning today is that the amount of data being backed up is growing, but the time allotted for a backup (the backup window) is shrinking or remaining static.

With backup windows shrinking, tolerance for hardware failure has virtually disappeared. The TS7520 Virtualization Engine is designed to help address these issues by reducing tape mechanical delays and providing fault tolerant architecture options supporting high availability.

 

Common features		Hardware summary
Heterogeneous server support Command Line Interface GUI Failover/failback Control Path failover/Data Path Failover Supports TS1120 drive encryption		Up to 2 base frames and 10 expansion frames One, two or four 3954-CV6 servers Up to 1.76 PB capacity with 2:1 Compression Four FC ports per server Physical tape export Physical attach TS3500, TS3200, TS3310, 3494 Enterprise and Limited HW release Hardware assisted compression High availability configurations On demand allocation of disk

Feature Benefits Remote Copy Allows for the copied tape to reside on a remote TS7520 or vault Scaleable Configuration Allows for extensive data growth   6 TB to 884 TB uncompressed, depending on the configuration Hardware Assisted Compression Designed to provide increased performance during backup/restore   Helps alleviate CPU cycles in compression mode Active Failover Designed to provide automated policies for TS7520 node high availability Call Home Allows the TS7520 to report service issues before they cause downtime TS7520 Supports 1, 2 or 4 servers Designed to provide high availability options   Allows for the TS7520 Virtualization Engine to be shared   Designed to provide higher performance options 4096 Virtual Drives Allows for faster backup due to virtual resources allocated versus physical tape drives Encryption Support Designed to provide data security over the network and when the data is at rest on the tape cartridge via the IBM TS1120 Tape Drive

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Physical Specifications Width: 444 mm (17.5 in) Depth: 698 mm (27.5 in) Height: 86 mm ( 3.4 in) Weight: 21 kg (45 lb)

Operating Environment Temperature: 10 to 32 C, 0 to 900 m, above 900 m, derate upper temperature 1 C/300 m Recommended 20 to 25° C Relative Humidity: 8 to 80% Recommended Relative Humidity: 40 to 55% Maximum wet bulb: 23° C Altitude (maximum): 2133 m Heat Output 16,400 Btu/hr (4,800 watts) Maximum configuration: 4.8 kVA

Operating Systems The TS7520 Virtualization Engine supports the following operating systems at the minimum levels indicated1: AIX 5L™ V5.1, V5.2 and V5.3   V5R3 and V5R4 i5/OS   Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10   Microsoft® Windows® 2003 (build 3790, or greater)   64-HP-UX 11iv1 and 11iv2   Linux® distributions:   xSeries® and Intel® 32-bit servers (x86) and 64-bit servers (ia64) with Linux SLES 10 kernel 2.6.16.21-0.8 bigsmp/smp/up   xSeries and Intel 32-bit servers (x86) and 64-bit servers (ia64) with Linux RHEL 4.4 kernel 2.6.9-42.EL hugemem/smp/up   xSeries and Intel 32-bit servers (x86) and 64-bit servers (ia64) with Linux SLES 9 SP3 kernel 2.6.5-7.244   xSeries and Intel 32-bit servers (x86) with Linux Asianux 2.0 kernel 2.6.9-11.19AX hugemem/smp/up

Max No. of Virtual Libraries		128 virtual libraries per server; 512 virtual libraries per system
Max No. of Virtual drives		1,024 per server; 4,096 per system
Max No. of Virtual cartridges		64,000 per server; up to 256,000 per system
System Performance Read Write		Max. Configuration Up to 4,760 MB/sec Up to 4,400 MB/sec
Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression)		1.76 PB Cache Capacity at 2:1 Compression

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