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Workspace IBM TS4500 Tape Library
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 8, 2021

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TS4500 media end-of-life monitoring

LTO and 3592 (Jaguar) media have a limited lifetime based on some specific internal measurements like number of loads, number of times completely written/read. The drive posts an alert once one of these internal thresholds have been crossed. At a second, higher threshold, the library ejects the media and it cannot be re-used. Alert and ejects are events that cannot be anticipated by the user. A monitoring systems is required to constantly have a view on the progress of media usage and remaining lifetime to allow proper capacity (media) planning.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    CARLOS SANDOVAL CASTRO
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    |     Nov 10, 2023

    This request has been delivered in release 1.10.0.0. Added REST support for cartridge attributes when querying GET /v1/dataCartridges and GET /v1/diagnosticCartridges. These cartridge attributes include media end of life monitoring attributes.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 11, 2023

    Hi,

    Found this that may help you:


    [root@host ~]# java -jar TS4500CLI.jar -ip 1.2.3.4 -u user -p password --downloadResources MountHistory

    Grab it on a regular basis and put into influx/graphana/favorite db/spreadsheet.  It only holds the last 250 mounts, so your frequency should reflect that.

    Good luck !!

    Håkon
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 1, 2022

    My customer used tape like disk in their distributed file system, like HDFS. It is very important for them to know the EOL of tape media. Do you provide rest api for them to collect media mounts time and EOL?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 25, 2022

    It would be good to have the information about media lifetime available via the Library GUI. Perhaps the library can also send alerts for this. The trouble with having this information available as tape alerts is that many applications do not care for tape alerts. TS7700 is a brilliant exception, it really handles tape alerts. Spectrum Protect can be configured to show warning (there is a config parameter for this). Many other apps also from ISV do not handle tape alerts. So having this available via the library gives the customer an application independent view of media life times.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 11, 2021

    I suggest to add information to the existing "mount history report" about number of "loads", "head pass counts" and "full file passes". I also suggest to add documentation to IBM Docs about the "early EOL" and "EOL" thresholds. With both the report and the threshold information the client can build a monitoring and watch media EOL progress.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 11, 2021

    I suggest to add information to the existing "mount history report" about number of "loads", "head pass counts" and "full file passes". I also suggest to add documentation to IBM Docs about the "early EOL" and "EOL" thresholds. With both the report and the threshold information the client can build a monitoring and watch media EOL progress.

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