IBM TS4500 R6 Tape Library Guide

• High availability: Dual active accessors with integrated service bays reduce inactive service space by 40%. The Elastic Capacity option can be used to completely eliminate inactive service space.
• Flexibility to grow: The TS4500 library can grow from the right side and the left side of the first L frame because models can be placed in any active position.
• Increased capacity: The TS4500 can grow from a single L frame up to another 17 expansion frames with a capacity of over 23,000 cartridges.
• High-density (HD) generation 1 frames from the TS3500 library can be redeployed in a TS4500.
• Capacity on demand (CoD): CoD is supported through entry-level, intermediate, and base-capacity configurations.
• Advanced Library Management System (ALMS): ALMS supports dynamic storage management, which enables users to create and change logical libraries and configure any drive for any logical library.
• Support for IBM TS1160 while also supporting TS1155, TS1150, and TS1140 tape drive: The TS1160 gives organizations an easy way to deliver fast access to data, improve security, and provide long-term retention, all at a lower cost than disk solutions. The TS1160 offers high-performance, flexible data storage with support for data encryption. Also, this enhanced fifth-generation drive can help protect investments in tape automation by offering compatibility with existing automation.
  

• Support of the IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 8 tape drive: The LTO Ultrium 8 offering represents significant improvements in capacity, performance, and reliability over the previous generation, LTO Ultrium 7, while still protecting your investment in the previous technology.
• Support of LTO 8 Type M cartridge (M8): The LTO Program is introducing a new capability with LTO-8 drives. The ability of the LTO-8 drive to write 9 TB on a brand new LTO-7 cartridge instead of 6 TB as specified by the LTO-7 format. Such a cartridge is called an LTO-7 initialized LTO-8 Type M cartridge.
• Integrated TS7700 back-end Fibre Channel (FC) switches are available.
• Up to four library-managed encryption (LME) key paths per logical library are available.
  

• Improve storage density with increased expansion frame capacity up to 2.4 times and support 33% more tape drives per frame.
• Manage storage by using the ALMS feature.
• Improve business continuity and disaster recovery with dual active accessor, automatic control path failover, and data path failover.
• Help ensure security and regulatory compliance with tape-drive encryption and Write Once Read Many (WORM) media.
• Support IBM LTO Ultrium 8, 7, 6, and 5, IBM TS1160, TS1155, TS1150, and TS1140 tape drives.
• Provide a flexible upgrade path for users who want to expand their tape storage as their needs grow.
• Reduce the storage footprint and simplify cabling with 10 U of rack space on top of the library.