Jim Fisher Advanced Technical Skills – North America
[email protected] TS7700 Introduction © 2010 IBM Corporation Topics What is the TS7700 and Why Should I have one? TS7700 Product Overview Reclamation Host Console Request Support Logical Volume Copy Consistency Autonomic Ownership Takeover Manager Recent Enhancements © 2010 IBM Corporation Over 58 Years of Tape Innovation Starting in 1952 –IBM 726 Tape Unit • 7,500 characters per second • 100 bits per inch and continuing in 2008 –IBM TS1130 Tape Drive • up to 160MBps1 • up to 1TB1 • 321,000 bits per inch 2000 2002 2004 2007 LTO Gen1 LTO Gen2 LTO Gen3 LTO Gen4 1848 1952 1964 George Boole 1995 IBM 726 IBM 2104 invents IBM 3590 1st magnetic tape drive 1st read/back drive O P E N binary algebra E N T E R P R I S E 1928, IBM invents 1959 1984 1999 2003 2005 2008 the 80 column IBM 729 IBM 3480 IBM 3590E 3592 Gen1 3592 Gen2 3592 Gen3 Punch Card 1st read/write drive 1st cartridge drive 1 represents maximum native performance or cartridge capacity © 2010 IBM Corporation IBM Tape Technology History Year Product Capacity (MB) Transfer Rate (KB/s) 1952 IBM 726 1.4 7.5 1953 IBM 727 5.8 15 1957 IBM 729 23 90 1965 IBM 2401 46 180 1968 IBM 2420 46 320 1973 IBM 3420 180 1250 1984 IBM 3480 200 3000 1989 IBM 3490 200 4500 1991 IBM 3490E 400 9000 1992 IBM 3490E 800 9000 1995 IBM 3590-B1A 10,000/20,000 9000 1999 IBM 3590-E1A 20,000/40,000 14,000 2002 IBM 3590-H1A 30,000/60,000 14,000 2003 IBM 3592-J1A 300,000,000 40,000 2005 IBM 3592-E05 700,000,000 100,000 2008 IBM 3592-E06 1,000,000,000 160,000