IBM has (had?) a TS7770 marketing bundle for small configurations. The name tripping off the tongue, it's called the High Performance Tape/Cloud Controller and is a bundle of a TS7770, two FICON ports, 60TB of SSD cache and some other features. So, it's tapeless which solves the need for a TS3500 replacement - which would have to be a TS4500. It was feature code #5999. I say was because I'm not sure whether it actually still exists. Depending on TS7760 code levels, you could migrate just by adding these to your grid.
Just to confuse matters still further, there is a TS7770 feature called simple tape attach or zTape air gap. This allows connection of a TS4300 library with LTO8 drives in it ONLY for physical tape interchange. On Thu, 9 May 2024 at 21:44, Pommier, Rex <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > > We currently have a very small TS7760 grid, one frame at our primary site > replicating to a secondary frame at out alternate site. The alternate site > is a TS7760T with an old single frame TS3584 with 5 3592-E08 drives hanging > off the back of it. We just found out the 3584 is out of support and the > 7760s are falling off the end of the year. We're looking at what our > options are. Obviously the easiest choice for the 7760 replacements are > 7770s. I know there are a couple competitors out there, EMC/Dell and maybe > Luminex are options for the VTS. Any others? > > More interesting to me right now is a replacement for the 3584. I know > IBM has a TS4500 library but that seems like overkill for a site our size. > Is there a "baby brother" to the 4500 or some other tape back end we could > use? I'm obviously looking in the wrong place because I'm not seeing > anything talking about hanging tape off the back end of the TS7770T. > > TIA, > Rex > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
