IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine

ViON presents the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Family, a family of mainframe virtual-tape solutions that are designed to optimize tape processing.  With one solution, the implementation of a fully integrated tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape leverages the benefits of both technologies to help enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today’s tape processing requirements.  Deploying this innovative subsystem can help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead.

IBM offers two models of the TS7700 Virtualization Engine:

• The TS7740 Virtualization Engine supports the IBM TS1130, IBM TS1120 and IBM 3592 tape drives installed in the IBM TS3400 or TS3494 tape libraries
• The TS7720 Virtualization Engine provides high capacity for workloads that are cache friendly due to their rapid recall requirements.

The TS7700 Virtualization Engine has the following key features:

• Support for mainframe attachment via FICON channels
• A GRID communication feature allows interconnection of up to four TS7740 and TS7720 models to form a GRID configuration.  The TS7700 GRID provides business continuity solutions on a single data center floor or across geographical data center locations.
• A Web-based GUI to configure and monitor the TS7700 Virtualization Engine.

To learn more about the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Family, please submit a request.

The following files are presented in pdf format.  You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.

• IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine Datasheet
• IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine White Paper