Sun StorageTek StreamLine SL8500 modular library system
Sun StorageTek StreamLine SL8500 modular library system
Cut cost without compromise! Reduce risk. Enable business. The powerful Sun StorageTek StreamLine SL8500 modular library system delivers unprecedented value providing increased reliability, consolidation cost-savings and flexible scalability. The StreamLine SL8500 brings incredible economy to meet the insatiable data storage demands of businesses today.
At A Glance
- Dramatically improves bottom-line efficiency by facilitating seamless consolidation of multiple smaller libraries, resulting in lower operational, management and maintenance costs
- Assists regulatory compliance and helps to reduce the risk of serious financial ramifications
- Enhances top-line revenue growth by allowing business growth without disruption
Features and Benefits
Sun’s value-laden StorageTek StreamLine SL8500 is designed to help manage growing data backup and protection requirements cost effectively. Buy what’s needed today with the confidence of painless growth in the future.
Key Benefits
Substantial improvement in bottom-line efficiency by facilitating seamless consolidation of multiple smaller libraries, resulting in lower operational, management and maintenance costs. Assists regulatory compliance and helps to reduce the risk of serious financial ramifications. Enhances top-line revenue growth by allowing business growth without disruption.
Increased flexibility for consolidations
Consolidation made easy
The StreamLine SL8500 modular library system simplifies storage management and solves interoperability issues. Seamless heterogeneous attachment and support for mixed media provides the ability to share the library across servers, applications and media types without requiring partition management
Choose what’s right for you
Any Cartridge Any Slot technology allows consolidation of multiple libraries and seamless mixing of tape drive technologies. Easily select the right data protection or archiving technology for the right application. The SL8500 supports the T10000, T9840 and T9940 lines of tape drives, or midrange LTO/SDLT drives and VolSafe® secure media technology to meet compliance requirements.
Reliable, Scalable, Available
Upgrade with no downtime
The new SL8500 architecture helps keep data available to users when they need it. Dynamically upgrade drives and cartridge slots during operation with no system downtime. Scale from 1,448 useable slots and 64 drives to more than 300,000 slots and 2,048 drives.
No single point of failure
Hot-swappable and fully redundant components, including multiple robots help keep the library running 24/7/365.
High-Performing
Keep pace with unpredictable peak loads with more than 1,000 exchanges per hour with high-performance robotics.
Designed For You
- Consolidation and growth environments
- Mission critical applications that can?t tolerate downtime
- Flat budgets and headcount
- Inefficient floor space for storage growth
- Unpredictable peak work loads
When no downtime is a paramount
The SL8500 reduces the threat of downtime, especially those unexpected outages that threaten business continuity. Its architecture offers hot-swappable and fully redundant components, including multiple robots, designed to help keep the library system up and running. Add slots and tape drives easily without scheduling downtime.
Ideal solution for consolidation environments
With extreme scalability and support for mixed media and diverse operating environments, the Sun StorageTek Streamline SL8500 modular library system is unsurpassed in its ability to consolidate multiple small libraries into one high-performance, easily managed storage system that can grow with budget and requirements.
Specifications
The SL8500 provides the value required in today?s demanding IT environment with its outstanding performance, compatibility, flexibility, scalability and availability.
Key Specifications
- Scale from 1,448 slots to 300,000 slots with no system downtime.
- Supports a combination of 64 to 2,048 tape drives including the Sun StorageTek T10000, T9840, T9940 lines of tape drives along with Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium and Super DLT (SDLT) tape drives.
- Redundant and hot-swap robotics, power and electronic components maximize availability.
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Cartridge Slots | 1.Starts at 1,448 customer usable slots and scales up to 300,000 slots |
Tape Drives | Starts at 64 drives and scales up to 2,048 drives of any combination of supported drives including: T10000, T9840 ESCON, Fibre Channel and FICON, T9940 ESCON, Fibre Channel and FICON, LTO Ultrium Fibre Channel, SDLT Fibre Channel |
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Non-disruptive serviceability | Standard N+1 power for drives, robotics and library electronics that can be replaced while the library is operating. |
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Supported host platforms | UNIX, Solaris, Windows, Linux |