IBM TS3500 Introduction And Planning Guide

The TS3500 Tape Library comes with several tape drive, frame model, and feature
options in order to meet your specific needs. Some additional features of the
TS3500 Tape Library are listed below:
v Ability to attach multiple simultaneous heterogeneous servers
v Remote management using a web browser or the TS3500 Command Line
Interface program
v Remote monitoring using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
v Multipath architecture
v Drive/media exception reporting
v In-depth reporting using the Tape System Reporter
v Host-based path failover
v Up to 224 I/O slots (16 I/O slots standard)
Table 4 gives potential library capacity based on supported frames and
configurations.
Table 4. TS3500 Tape Library configurations
Supported configurations
A library including these
models
With these drives
Can contain this many
cartridges
1, 2
And has this maximum
native capacity
3
L5x, D5x, and S54 Ultrium tape drives > 20 000
50 PB
(44.41 PiB)
L32, D32, and S54
4
Ultrium tape drives > 20 000
50 PB
(44.41 PiB)
L2x, D2x, and S24 3592 tape drives > 15 000
60 PB
(53.3 PiB)
L5x, D5x, S54, and SC1 Ultrium tape drives > 300 000
750 PB
(666.1 PiB)
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Figure 2. The TS3500 Tape Library
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IBM TS3500 Specifications

General

Type	Tape Library
Model	TS3500
Max. drives	Up to 192
Interface	Fibre Channel, SAS
Encryption	Yes
Tape Technology	LTO, IBM TS11xx
Drive support	IBM TS1160