TapeAssure for
intelligent reporting and
alerts
HP TapeAssure provides comprehensive summaries and detailed information about the status,
performance, utilization, and health of all tape drives and tapes for HP ESL G3 libraries so that you can
proactively manage the health of your backup and archive.
Utilization and performance reporting features allow you to optimize the use of your HP ESL G3 tape
libraries to make informed purchasing decisions if an increase in capacity is needed. With the data provided
by TapeAssure you can:
Modify backup schedules to make best use of the drives and tapes available and evenly distribute
their workload
Predict and prevent failures through early warnings and recommended service actions
Determine if each drive and each tape is experiencing a high (or low) rate of usage
Know when to retire tapes
Find out the compression ratios and read/write throughput actually achieved
TapeAssure health reports and alerts give you peace of mind knowing the condition of the drives, the
tapes and the data on each tape. TapeAssure monitors every backup to ensure the highest standards of
reliability, sends alerts when these standards are not met, and ensures that you can maintain the drives
and tapes used in an archive environment to have the highest integrity.
TapeAssure builds a database of drive and tape history information that you can export as .CSV (comma-
separated-value) files and import into HP's TapeAssure Analysis Template (via Excel) to create graphs and
tables that help answer important questions about drive and tape health, performance, and utilization. .
This data can be automatically exported on a schedule or on demand and written to a local or network
drive where analysis scripts can also be run.
TapeAssure real time alerts notify instantly if drive and data quality standards are not being achieved:
In-depth analysis pinpoints if drive, tape or data characteristics fall below HP backup and archiving
standards
View alerts and statistics is real-time in the Command View TL
TapeAssure Advanced
HP StoreEver TapeAssure Advanced Software provides an intuitive, easy to use dashboard, and advanced
analytics for performance, health and utilization of tape drives, libraries and cartridges. TapeAssure
Advanced software is fully integrated into HP StoreEver Command View Tape Library (CV-TL) Software
providing single pane of glass management, multi-library manageability, monitoring, usage, performance
and analytics. HP tape libraries and software solutions offer a simple, easy to use visual dashboard to
quickly identify all aspects of the library and its components.
Key Features:
Simple, easy to use dashboard : Visual representation of the library, drives and cartridges current
state with ability to drill down
Advanced Analytics : Making use of predictive analytics, predict the likelihood of failures,
bottlenecks, load balancing issues in tape infrastructure
Performance advisor: Identify the performance bottlenecks and utilization patterns quickly for
drives and tapes
Resource utilization analysis: Forecast the resource utilization and future bottlenecks, helps to take
the decision on future investments.
Reliable solution that does not invade the data path
QuickSpecs
HP StoreEver ESL G3 Tape Libraries
Features in more detail
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