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IBM 3494 Virtual Tape Server (z/OS)

The IBM TotalStorage 3494 Virtual Tape Server (VTS) is an enterprise tape solution designed to enhance performance and provide the capacity required for today ’s backup requirements. The adoption of this solution can help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management cost. A VTS Peer-to-Peer (PtP) configuration can provide redundancy for greater disaster tolerance and help fulfill business continuity requirements.

Product highlights

• Can help reduce real tape mounts, because many mount requests are satisfied from the Tape Volume Cache (TVC)
• Can reduce physical tape cartridges required because of higher utilization of cartridge capacity
• Can help reduce operating costs such as power, maintenance, operations and support staff
• Can help reduce floor space required to support the tape process, as a result of fewer physical resources
• Can help to improve performance due to the elimination of most of the physical movement of tape
• Can be upgraded to Peer-to-Peer configuration to support business continuance

Model B10

• Can help reduce “real” tape mounts, because many mount requests are satisfied from the Tape Volume Cache (TVC)
• Can reduce the number of physical tape cartridges required because of higher utilization of cartridge capacity
• Can help reduce the floor space required to support the tape process, as a result of fewer physical resources
• Can help to improve performance due to the elimination of most of the physical movement of tape
• Can help reduce operating costs such as power, maintenance, operations and support staff
• Supports the high performance, high capacity IBM TotalStorage 3592 Tape Drive Model J1A

Model B20

• Can help reduce “real” tape mounts, because many mount requests are satisfied from the Tape Volume Cache (TVC)
• Can reduce physical tape cartridges required because of higher utilization of cartridge capacity
• Can help reduce operating costs such as power, maintenance, operations and support staff
• Supports the high performance, high capacity IBM TotalStorage3592 Tape Drive Model J1A
• Can help to improve performance due to the elimination of most of the physical movement of tape
• Low entry cost configuration with upgrade path supports growth

Related Documents

IBM 3494 Virtual Tape Server Model B10 datasheet (PDF)
IBM 3494 Virtual Tape Server Model B20 datasheet (PDF