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Tape - High End Virtualization

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Support for more than 16 tape drives

Michael at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to add more than 16 tape drives to TS7700 in future.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Request the ability to read and write C07 style tapes behind the TS7770 including previously written C07 tapes.

CTBC Bank currently use three TS7740 with GRID connection, we are proposing three TS7770 to replace them.Since CTBC did implement backup 3-2-1 policy. After daily backup jobs they did submit other backup jobs to physical copy those that need to be...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 active data in client interface

Need an easy way for the client to identify the amount of 'active data' maintained in a TS7700 cluster. Today this metric can only be obtained via BVIR/VEHSTATS and this creates a huge overhead if not implemented to get this metric. It would be mu...
over 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Not under consideration

RPO Reporting Enhancement in Tape Gui

Today in the 7700 Tape GUI.. The current display of the COPY QUEUE contains a combined sum of ALL of the "deferred" and "Family" virtual volumes queued up --- that need to be copied. My customer "Humana" would very much like: 1. Ability to see the...
over 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change Cluster ID without an outage

As a future TS7700 feature, Michael Yuan at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to change the cluster ID without an outage. He would like to put a new node into the cluster and migrate everything to it. Currently, he has to do a manual...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 should allow batch commands for PVOL movement

We have had numerous times where we needed to issue commands to a large number of pvols in our VTS's. We would like the ability to issue the commands to PVOLs through a batch interface so we don't have to spend large amounts of time in the GUI.
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 Logical WORM KPMG certification

Allow to configure retention period in data class, so volumes mounted in this class inherit this retention period. During the retention period, volumes cannot be scratched, deleted, ejected or overwritten. In addition, do not allow to decrease the...
over 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 physical WORM

Logical WORM protection in TS7700 protects virtual volumes from being modified or deleted from the host perspective. However, it does not provide a protection from physical damage of e.g. the cache. Once migrated to physical tape there is also no ...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

HYDRA encryption managed by the SMS constructs

Protecting data through encryption can be set on a per pool basis, which enables you to encrypt all or some of your data when it is written to the back-end tapes on TS7720, or for the whole disk cache. Customer would like to have encryption manage...
about 10 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

TS7700 reports compared to ORACLE STK reports.

There are some kinds of reports from ORACLE STK solution, that customer frequently use to monitor VSM usage and management. They asked us to evaluate having similar reports to:1. Identify all logical tapes in use, and detail where we have replicat...
about 10 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Not under consideration

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