Foster an air-gapped cyber resilient long-term data storage in a highly scalable tape library
Overview
IBM® TS4300 Tape Library is a high-density, highly scalable, easy-to-manage solution designed to keep data securely stored long-term, while helping reduce the costs associated with data center space and utilities. Its modular design enables you to increase cartridge and drive capacity as needed—scale vertically up to sixteen modules with expansion for Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium cartridges, drives and redundant power supplies. IBM TS4300 enhanced modern data protection helps meet security and compliance requirements.
The modular design enables you to increase cartridge and drive capacity as needed. The TS4300 can scale vertically with up to sixteen modules, with expansion for LTO Ultrium Cartridges Family.
TS4300 supports WORM cartridges to enhance modern data protection and provides library-managed encryption with IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager.
TS4300 is based on an embedded, open-source software architecture to help speed deployment and simplify management.
TS4300 provides simple, inherent air gapped data protection by creating a data copy essentially impossible for hackers to corrupt, eliminating the ransomware of infection and re-infection cycle.
TS4300 is a high-density, highly scalable, easy-to-manage tape library designed to keep data securely stored long-term, while helping reduce the costs associated with data center space and utilities.
Features
The modular design enables users to increase cartridge and drive capacity as needed. Built around a 3U-high, modular base library, TS4300 can scale vertically with up to sixteen modules, with expansion for Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium Cartridge Family, drives and redundant power supplies. A single robot manages all modules in the stack. In a sixteen-module configuration, TS4300 offers a capacity of 640 LTO cartridges.
Supports WORM cartridges to enhance data protection and provides library-managed encryption with IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager.
The TS4300 base library contains all of the necessary robotics and intelligence to manage the base library system, with a maximum of 40 slots of LTO cartridge capacity per module, five input/output (I/O) slots, and support for three combinations of full- and/or half-height (FH or HH) LTO drives per module. The TS4300 base library is rack or tabletop mountable. Module expansions are only rack mountable.
TS4300 leverages IBM Storage Archive™ for direct, intuitive and graphical access to data stored in IBM tape drives and libraries by incorporating the IBM Linear Tape File System™ (LTFS) format standard. LTFS compatibility allows tape-stored data to be accessed as if it were on disk or flash storage.
The embedded, open-source software architecture helps speed deployment and simplify management. Best-in-class error recovery and reporting, library health monitoring and alerting, and auto-recovery features help to speed diagnostics and resolution. An automation drive interface significantly increases drive communication speed for faster code updates and log downloads.
This tape library supports generation 10 of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology, offering up to 100 TB of data storage per cartridge (40 TB native), 122% higher compressed capacity of the previous LTO Ultrium cartridge generation.
The modular design enables users to increase cartridge and drive capacity as needed. Built around a 3U-high, modular base library, TS4300 can scale vertically with up to sixteen modules, with expansion for Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium Cartridge Family, drives and redundant power supplies. A single robot manages all modules in the stack. In a sixteen-module configuration, TS4300 offers a capacity of 640 LTO cartridges.
Supports WORM cartridges to enhance data protection and provides library-managed encryption with IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager.
The TS4300 base library contains all of the necessary robotics and intelligence to manage the base library system, with a maximum of 40 slots of LTO cartridge capacity per module, five input/output (I/O) slots, and support for three combinations of full- and/or half-height (FH or HH) LTO drives per module. The TS4300 base library is rack or tabletop mountable. Module expansions are only rack mountable.
TS4300 leverages IBM Storage Archive™ for direct, intuitive and graphical access to data stored in IBM tape drives and libraries by incorporating the IBM Linear Tape File System™ (LTFS) format standard. LTFS compatibility allows tape-stored data to be accessed as if it were on disk or flash storage.
The embedded, open-source software architecture helps speed deployment and simplify management. Best-in-class error recovery and reporting, library health monitoring and alerting, and auto-recovery features help to speed diagnostics and resolution. An automation drive interface significantly increases drive communication speed for faster code updates and log downloads.
This tape library supports generation 10 of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology, offering up to 100 TB of data storage per cartridge (40 TB native), 122% higher compressed capacity of the previous LTO Ultrium cartridge generation.
Technical details
- 30/40 TB native 75/100 TB compressed (Ultrium 10)
- 18 TB native, 45 TB compressed (Ultrium 9)
- 12 TB native, 30 TB compressed (Ultrium 8)
- Hot-swap components: power supplies, tape drives
- Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) enabled
- 3 year in-warranty coverage of select parts or 1 year in-warranty + ExpertCare
- Base unit maximum 28 kg (61.5 lb)
- Expansion unit maximum 22.6 kg (49.6 lb)
- (H x W x D) 114 mm (4.48 in) x 446 mm (17.56 in) x 873 mm (34.37 in)
Hardware Requirements
IBM TS4300 Tape Library configurations for base model and with 15 expansion modules:
- Max LTO Ultrium cartridges 40/640
- Max LTO Ultrium I/O slots 5/80
- Max tape drives (base model) 1 FH LTO, 3 HH LTO, or 1 FH and 1 HH LTO
- Max tape drives (w/15 expansion modules) 16 FH LTO or 48 HH LTO HH/FH drive mixture range 46/1 or 16/16
- Total physical capacity 1.6 PB/25.6 PB Maximum logical libraries 1/21
Software Requirements
Management software options include: IBM Storage Archive™; IBM Storage Protect™
Resources
Independent Software Vendor Matrix for IBM Tape Libraries and LTO
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