Drive Utilization Reporting and Media Integrity Analysis for IBM TS3310 Library

The IBM System Storage TS3310 Tape Library consists of the IBM System Storage TS3310 Tape Library Model  L5B  (3576 Model L5B) and the IBM System Storage TS3310 Tape Library Model E9U (3576 Model E9U). The IBM System Storage TS3310 Tape Library is extremely modular, with physical scalability varying from the 5U Model L5B base library to an additional four Model E9U expansion units.

The TS3310 now supports the following new enhancements:

• An Advanced Reporting feature license key that enables the Drive Resource Utilization Reporting and Media Integrity Analysis Reporting functions. These user-configurable reporting functions provide graphical displays for both diagnostic and trend analysis data, designed to help evaluate tape drive, and media performance and drive utilization parameters. The Drive Resource Utilization Report can help you identify drives or groups of drives that are nearing 100% utilization. It will also help identify drive resources that are not being fully utilized and provide information necessary to determine if additional drives are necessary. The Media Integrity Report can help you measure and evaluate media and drive performance in the library.
• An Encryption Key Manager path diagnostic function to assist administrative users in the setup, configuration, or troubleshooting of Library Managed Encryption enabled libraries.

Appropriate levels of host software are required to attach the TS3310 Tape Library with IBM LTO Ultrium 4 Tape Drives to selected IBM System p, IBM System i, IBM System z, IBM System x, HP-UX, Sun, UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows servers.

Planned availability date
July 18, 2008

Price of Advanced Reporting: $2,950


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