Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library
Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library
Trust your ability to recover. Recoveries take too long. Backups fail. Traditional tape management can be labor intensive. These all-too-familiar concerns place your data and your business at risk. Now you can address backup/recovery issues with an advanced disk-based virtual tape and library emulation solution sized for a wide variety of open systems environments.
At A Glance
- With simple, reliable, and more predictable backup and recovery, you improve data protection. In a single rack, you receive a server, VTL software, and Sun StorageTek FlexLine online storage system hardware
- With the Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library appliance, you can improve the performance and reliability of existing backup and recovery application processes by presenting a variety of virtual tape drives, libraries, and tape cartridges to those applications
- Advanced software options provide encryption allowing you to secure your tape everywhere, leverage performance and advanced backend physical tape processing
Designed For You
- Address data protection issues with an advanced disk-based virtual tape and library emulation
- Consolidate data protection into a single simple to manage appliance
- Support remote offices with a solid data protection system
- The Sun StorageTek Virtual tape Library makes recovery fast, simple and reliable. Serve you’re your user community with high spend recovery and enhance their productivity. Keep the business running.
Trust your ability to recover
The Sun StorageTek Virtual tape Library makes recovery fast, simple and reliable. Serve you’re your user community with high spend recovery and enhance their productivity. Keep the business running.
Features and Benefits
The Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library (VTL) addresses recovery time objectives, backup issues, and traditional tape management in the open systems environment. The Virtual Tape Library (VTL) appliance can improve data protection simply by supporting high capacity disk buffers with high throughput and no disk management requirements. The VTL can be used with any application that uses tape. In the open systems arena, this includes backup and recovery products from independent software vendors such as Veritas, Legato, Tivoli, and Computer Associates.
Key Benefits
- Accelerate recovery. Get data back to users when they need it. Trust it to be right.
- Reduce backup windows, improve backup success rates, and increase availability with a disk-to-disk solution.
- Support consolidation. Achieve a single point of administration with the Virtual Tape Library storage appliance because it manages data from multiple backup servers and multiple backup applications.
- Optimize performance. Reduce CPU overhead by using tape emulation, which allows the backup server to move fewer but larger blocks of data. Improve throughput.
- Reduce data protection costs. Reduce your overall cost of data protection operations through improved tape utilization and shared tape resources. Deliver value to your business.
- Enhance data protection. Work with industry leaders who offer storage area networking expertise, backup and recovery integration services, and “one call” support.
Advanced Virtualization
Disk-to-Disk backup
In a single rack the Virtual Tape Library appliance is uniquely comprised of a server, disk storage and software. With the VTL storage appliance, you can improve the performance and reliability of existing backup and recovery application processes. The VTL appliance presents a variety of virtual tape drives, libraries and tape cartridges to those applications. It will improve backup processes, meet recovery time objectives, and reduce costs. The appliance is packaged with the FlexLine 280 disk controller and FLC200 SATA disk array configurations offer 3.8 to 70.3 terabytes (usable) of preconfigured buffer capacity.
Integrate Seamlessly with Your Backup and Recovery Software
The Virtual Tape Library (VTL) appliance solution integrates seamlessly with leading backup and recovery products and permits multiple backups to occur simultaneously and successfully. RAID-protected disk emulates DLT, SDLT, LTO, LTO 3, StorageTek T9840 and T9940 tape drives, and StorageTek L-Series tape libraries (L20 through L700e).
FLX380 disk controller option
This option adds the FLX380 disk controller as a standard VTL component. Although the performance of the VTL2xxx is server limited, with the VTL3xxx, which has two servers in an active/active configuration, FLX380 can improve VTL performance.
Higher capacity (2nd disk controller)
A second disk control enables capacity beyond the limitations of a single FLXx80 controller for customers requiring very large VTL configurations.
High Performance
Speed to burn
With up to 900 MB/second throughput the Sun StorageTek VTL (Series 3000) provides extreme performance for the most demanding enterprise data protection environments. Throughput on the Series 1000 performs at 300 MB/sec, making it an excellent choice for remote office and distributed data protection environments.
Choose the size and performance you need
StorageTek VTL appliance is available in three versions. The high-performance disk arrays are optimized for virtual tape and specifically configured for sequential or streaming workloads. Highly redundant configurations are also available as preconfigured systems. Depending on the series, you can add software features to meet special requirements: alternative host connectivity, compression, encryption, or remote replication.
Powerful Virtual Tape Software
Basic Software
Basic Software for the Series 2000 and 3000 appliances include IP replication, compression, encryption, iSeries/AS400 support, and NDMP support. The disk presents itself to the operating environment as tape, so you can preserve existing tape and backup procedures and protect your investment in backup software. Within your existing architecture, you can consolidate the management and provisioning of backup resources, share tape devices across multiple backup applications, and incrementally add new workloads without affecting tape configurations.
Tape caching (physical library integration)
The Tape Caching feature enhances backend tape support by implementing policy based migration from the VTL buffer to physical tape. Previous versions of VTL only migrated data manually, via explicit Export commands. With Tape Caching enabled, customers may now set up policies based on data age, buffer utilization (high water mark), schedule, etc., to automate this process.
Secure tape (encryption)
The Secure Tape feature encrypts data as it is migrated to physical tape. This means that data on tape is not exposed to inadvertent or malicious misuse. Secure tape everywhere