And this is first IBM-branded use of "non-mainframe" tape drives.
I mean LTO.
Yes, it is on back-end, not native (native - we discussed it many times).
However VTS is present for 20+ years, as well as LTO. And for the years
the only supported tape at backend was Jaguar or previously MAGSTAR family.
During the years there were few vendors who supplied kind of VTS with
"non-mainframe" tape drives. Even "any drives".
Nowadays we have at least two.
Why I'm writing this? Because LTO is *cheaper* than Jaguar. At least
smaller shops would want cheaper solution.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 28.07.2023 o 08:32, Timothy Sipples pisze:
Given past discussions I should've mentioned this information a while ago, when
it was announced in September, 2022. Better now than never! :-)
IBM offers an additional physical tape storage option for z/OS (and other
operating systems). It's available with this combination of equipment:
1. IBM TS7700 with Feature Code 5995 ("zTape Air-Gap"), available with Release
5.3 or higher, plus a couple other ordering/configuration details. The 3948-CSB and
3948-CFC models support this configuration.
2. IBM TS4300 with your choice of 1, 2, or 3 LTO tape drives. (Currently LTO8.)
This equipment is rack mountable and requires a total of 21U of rack space, or
exactly 50% of a standard size rack. You would still have plenty of rack space
available in the same frame for an IBM DS8910F (16U) flash storage system. Or
even a rack mount IBM z16 or LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 server (in its 18U
configuration).
The IBM TS7700 with IBM TS4500 Tape Attach configuration is still available (of
course!) if you'd like a much larger, much more capacious physical tape
configuration.
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Timothy Sipples
Senior Architect
Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity
IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific
sipp...@sg.ibm.com
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