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IBM 3584 TotalStorage Tape Library (z/OS & O/S)

The 3584 tape library is designed to offer high performance, availability, reliability, mixed media, and on demand storage capacity. Now with zSeries and VTS attachment capability, The IBM TotalStorage 3584 Tape Library leverages the drive technology of the 3592 Tape Drive Model J1A and a high availability accessor feature in an Enterprise-class tape automation system. For Open systems environments, Linear Tape-Open (LTO), as well as the IBM TotalStorage 3592 Tape Drive Model J1A, can be mixed, by frame, within the same library. The 3584 has been designed to address the needs of customers seeking solutions for data archiving, backup, disaster recovery, and other storage needs.

Product highlights

• Tape Library offers the IBM TotalStorage 3592 Tape Drive and the new IBM TotalStorage 3588 Ultrium Tape Drive Model F3A, utilizing Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 3 Tape Drive technology designed to provide high capacity, throughput, and fast access performance
• Variety of drive technology offerings help increase storage density while protecting your technology investment in supporting LTO Ultrium 1, LTO Ultrium 2, LTO Ultrium 3 and IBM 3592 tape drives and media within the same library
• A second library accessor, the 3584 High Availability Frame Model HA1, is designed to help increase library availability and reliability
• Built-in storage management functions designed to help maximize availability and allow for dynamic management of both cartridges and drives
• Designed to provide multi-petabyte capacity, high performance and reliability in an automated tape library that is scalable to 192 tape drives and over 6200 cartridges for midrange to enterprise open systems environments
• Patented Multi-Path Architecture designed to help increase configuration flexibility with logical library partitioning while enabling system redundancy for high availability
• zSeries and TotalStorage Virtual Tape System (VTS) attachment capability when using the 3953 Tape System

Related Documents

IBM 3584 Tape Library - datasheet (PDF)