IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG14-0114
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• Support LTO
TM
Ultrium
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6, LTO Ultrium 5, and IBM TS1140 HD2-compatible tape
drives
Overview
The IBM TS4500 tape library is a next-generation storage solution designed to
help midsize and large enterprises respond to storage challenges. Some of these
challenges include high data volume, growth in data centers, increasing cost of data
center storage footprints, difficulty migrating data across vendor platforms, and
increased complexity of IT training and management as staff resources shrink.
The TS4500 delivers the density needed for current and future business data growth
with the cost efficiency and manageability to preserve existing investments in IBM
tape library products. Now organizations can achieve both low cost per terabyte
(TB) and a high TB density per square foot. The TS4500 can support up to 2.2 PB
of native storage capacity in a single 10 square foot library frame, up to 3.4 times
more capacity than the IBM TS3500.
The TS4500 offers deeper integration of tape drive and media management for a
seamless, single pane of glass user experience. The TS4500 GUI is based on the IBM
Storage Unified UI. The GUI is designed to lead the user directly to task completion
and includes persistent, at-a-glance library utilization and health status indicators.
TS4500 features such as capacity on demand, automatic control-path and data-path
failover, and support for tape drive encryption and WORM media are carried over
from previous generations of industry-leading IBM tape libraries.
Automates solutions for open environments
TS4500 is an industry leader in tape drive integration with features such as a
persistent worldwide name, multipath architecture, drive and media exception
reporting, remote drive/media management, and host-based path failover. TS4500
L25, D25, and S25 frames support the TS1140 tape drive, and L55, D55, and S55
frames support LTO Ultrium 6 and 5 tape drives. L-frame and D-frame models
support improved hot-swappable drive packaging. All of the frames include high-
density (HD) slot technology that can significantly increase a library's total capacity.
Delivering more flexibility in the use of data center floor space than previous
versions, the new frame models can be placed in any active position so that the
library can grow from both the right and the left side of the first L frame. The
previous library allowed the addition of frames only to the right.
Available with top rack (Model TR1) option
The optional top rack offering can reduce the storage footprint and simplify cabling
by providing 10U of rack space on top of the library for Fibre Channel switches, tape
data movers, or LTFS nodes.
Delivers capacity on demand
The TS4500 library frame provides a more flexible upgrade path for users wanting to
expand their tape storage as their needs grow. Capacity-on-demand configurations
for TS4500 L-frame models include an
entry-level
configuration, an
intermediate
configuration, and a
base-capacity
configuration. All models also support HD
capacity-on-demand configurations.
Includes advanced features
TS4500 is designed with a number of advanced features to deliver cutting-edge
performance and long-term value. The ALMS feature supports dynamic storage
management, enabling users to dynamically create and change logical libraries
and configure any drive into any logical library. The TS4500 also offers automatic
control-path and data-path failover to support improved business continuity and
disaster recovery.
