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Abstract
The IBM® Virtualization Engine TS7700 provides tape virtualization for the IBM System z® environment. The Virtualization Engine TS7700 is designed to provide improved performance and capacity to help lower the total cost of ownership for tape processing. It introduces a new modular, scalable, high-performing architecture for mainframe tape virtualization. The TS7700 is available as the TS7740 R1.5, which brings significant enhancements over its previous release and now also comes as a disk-only solution, the TS7720, that does not require physical tape attachment.
The Virtualization Engine TS7700 integrates the advanced performance, capacity, and data integrity design of the 3592 Tape Drives, the IBM industry-leading tape technology, with high-performance disk and a new advanced IBM System p® server to form a storage hierarchy managed by robust storage management firmware with extensive self management capability. It includes functions such as advanced policy management to control physical volume pooling, cache management, dual copy, dual copy across a grid network, and copy mode control. The TS7700 offers enhanced statistical reporting and a single, standards-based management interface for TS7700 management.
In addition to providing a detailed description of the Virtualization Engine TS7700 models, this book discusses the tasks involved with planning, implementing, and operating the Virtualization Engine TS7700, as well as describing migration considerations.
This IBM Redbooks® publication covers the Virtualization Engine TS7740 Release 1.5 and the Virtualization Engine TS7720 and includes information about supported tape drives and libraries current at the time of writing.
Table of contents
Part 1. Architecture and planning
Chapter 1. Introducing the Virtualization Engine TS7700
Chapter 2. Architecture, components, and functional characteristics
Chapter 3. Pre-installation planning and sizing
Part 2. Implementation and migration
Chapter 4. Hardware implementation
Chapter 5. Software implementation
Chapter 6. Upgrade and migration scenarios
Part 3. Operation
Chapter 7. Operation
Chapter 8. Performance and monitoring
Chapter 9. Disaster recovery and failover scenarios
Appendix A. Feature codes
Appendix B. TS3500 checklists
Appendix C. 3494 checklists
Appendix D. Virtualization Engine TS7700 step-by-step implementation
Appendix E. JES3 examples and information
Appendix F. TS7700 statistics record format
Appendix G. Sample JCL
Appendix H. DEVSERV QLIB command
Appendix I. Library Manager volume categories