TS7700 Server
The TS7700 Server facilitates data transfer between the host and data storage, and to and from physical tape drives when the TS7700 connects to a physical tape library.
The TS7700 Server performs
the following major functions:
- Host connectivity
- Virtualization of tape drives and media, when connected to a physical tape library
- Storage, replication, and organization of data, including organization across tape libraries and physical media when connected to a physical tape library
3957-VED configuration
A TS7700 Server (3957-VED) configuration includes:
- FC 5278 cloud enablement and FC 3466 can be added to cloud function.
- Two 10-core 3.8 GHz POWER9 processor cards
- Six 600GB HDDs or 775GB SSD
- 64 GB total memory
- SAS controller with support for RAID 0,1,5,6 and 10
- One system (serial) port with RJ45 connector
- Two Hardware Management Console (HMC) ports
- Extended Error Handling (EEH) and hot plug support on PCI expansion slots.
- Four USB ports:
- Two USB 3.0 ports for general use
- Two USB 2.0 ports for the FSP service processor
- No DVD RAM drive
- Two or Four 1 Gbps copper ethernet adapter
- Two quad-port 16Gbps FCS adapter
Each Expansion Unit I/O adapter drawer offers the following features:
- Eight additional hot-plugged PCIe cartridge styler slots ( used to house FICON adapters for host
attachment, Fibre Channel adapters for the cache enclosure attachment and Fibre Channel adapters).
- PCIe standard achievable using Kleber riser adapters
- PCI-X standard achievable using Oroville riser adapters
- Always redundant AC power
- Always redundant cooling
- Concurrent maintenance of:
- PCIe or PCI-X adapters
- Two power supplies
- Two fans
Slot Number | Adapter |
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C2 | 16 Gb Quad port FC HBA |
C3 | I/O Drawer Interface card |
C4 | 1Gb Quad port or 10Gb dual port Optical |
C6 | 16 Gb Quad port FC HBA |
C7 | 16Gb Quad port Ethernet adapter |
C8 | 1Gb Quad port or 10Gb dual port Optical |
C9 | I/O Drawer Interface card |
C11 | Serial adapter |
C12 |
16Gb Quad port Ethernet adapter |
Slot Number | Adapter |
---|---|
C3 | I/O Drawer Interface card |
C6 | 16 Gb Quad port FC HBA |
3957-VEC configuration
A TS7700 Server (3957-VEC) configuration includes:
- 2 processor sockets each 3.42 GHz with 10 processor core
- 32 GB of DDR3 CDIMM @ 1600 Mbps
- Additional SAS Solstice-crocodile controller with support for RAID 0,1,5,6 and 10
- 8 SFF 300 GB SAS 15K RPM internal drives using RAID0 (through a split back plane)
- 1 slim line DVD RAM drive
- EEH and hot plug support on PCI adapters
- Disk cache w/ 4 TB HDDs
- TS3500 and TS4500 tape library support
- 16 Gb Fibre Channel switches for back-end tape
- Grid Dual port 1 Gb (copper or optical) Ethernet or dual port 10 Gb Optical Ethernet
Figure 6 and Figure 7 depict the TS7760
System Unit.
Figure 8
depicts the TS7760 Server Expansion Unit I/O drawer.
Slot Number | Adapter |
---|---|
2 | Serial Adapter |
5 | I/O Drawers Interface card |
6 | I/O Drawers Interface card |
10 | PCIe2 LP 4-port 1 Gb Ethernet Adapter |
11 | PCIe2 LP 4-port 1 Gb Ethernet Adapter |
Slot Number | Adapter |
---|---|
1 | Grid PCIe Ethernet adapter:
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2 | Not used |
3 | 16 Gb FICON® attachment to host or 8 Gb FICON attachment to host‡ |
4 | Dual port 16 Gb Fibre Channel FCoE: Cache Expansion Frames 1 and 2 |
5 | Dual port 16 Gb Fibre Channel FCoE: Cache and Tape Attach |
6 | 16 Gb FICON attachment to host or 8 Gb FICON attachment to host‡ |
‡When four FICON adapters connect to hosts Notes:
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