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IBM TS7700 R5.4 Guide

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Published on 22 November 2024, updated 23 January 2025

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ISBN-10: 0738461857
ISBN-13: 9780738461854
IBM Form #: SG24-8464-04

Authors: Larry Coyne, Yuki Asakura, Dave Brettell, Ramon A. Minjares Campos, Nielson Nino de Carvalho, Andrew Enriquez, Rin Fujiwara, Nobuhiko Furuya, Lourie Goodall, Joe Hew, Kousei Kawamura, Stefan Neff, Takeshi Nohta, Tomoaki Ogino, Shinya Ohri, Aderson Pacini, Daniel Riggins, Trinidad Armando Rangel Ruiz, Michael Scott. Taisei Takai, Nao Takemura, Erina Tatsumi, Takahiro Tsuda, Shinsuke Ueyama and Chen Zhu

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    Abstract

    This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers IBM TS7700 R5.4 and R5.4 PGA1. The IBM TS7700 is part of a family of IBM Enterprise tape products. This book is intended for system architects and storage administrators who want to integrate their storage systems for optimal operation.

    Building on over 25 years of experience, the R5.4 release includes many features that enable improved performance, usability, and security. Highlights include the IBM TS7700 Advanced Object Store, an all flash TS7770, grid resiliency enhancements, and Logical WORM retention.

    By using the same hierarchical storage techniques, the TS7700 (TS7770 and TS7760) can also off load to object storage. Because object storage is cloud-based and accessible from different regions, the TS7700 Cloud Storage Tier support essentially allows the cloud to be an extension of the grid. As of this writing, the TS7700C supports the ability to off load to IBM Cloud® Object Storage, and Amazon S3.

    This publication explains features and concepts that are specific to the IBM TS7700 as of release R5.3. The R5.3 microcode level provides IBM TS7700 Cloud Storage Tier enhancements, IBM DS8000 Object Storage enhancements, Management Interface dual control security, and other smaller enhancements. The R5.3 microcode level can be installed on the IBM TS7770 and IBM TS7760 models only.

    Table of Contents

    Part 1. Architecture and planning

    Chapter 1. Introducing the IBM TS7700

    Chapter 2. Architecture, components, and functional characteristics

    Chapter 3. IBM TS7700 usage considerations

    Chapter 4. Preinstallation planning and sizing

    Chapter 5. Disaster recovery

    Part 2. Implementation and migration

    Chapter 6. Implementing IBM TS7700

    Chapter 7. Hardware configurations and upgrade considerations

    Chapter 8. Migration

    Part 3. Operations

    Chapter 9. IBM TS7700 Management Interface operations: Part 1

    Chapter 10. IBM TS7700 Management Interface operations: Part 2

    Chapter 11. IBM TS7700 common operations and procedures

    Chapter 12. IBM z/OS host console operations

    Chapter 13. Monitoring

    Chapter 14. Performance considerations

    Chapter 15. Copy Export

    Chapter 16. Disaster recovery testing in a grid configuration

    Chapter 17. RESTful API

    Chapter 18. IBM TS7700 support for zTape Air-GAP

    Appendix A. Feature codes and requests for price quotations

    Appendix B. IBM TS7700 implementation for IBM z/VM, IBM z/VSE, and IBM z/TPF environments

    Appendix C. JES3 examples and information

    Appendix D. DEVSERV QLIB command

    Appendix E. Sample job control language

    Appendix F. Library Manager volume categories

    Appendix G. IBM TS7700 parameter examples

    Appendix H. Extra IODF examples

    Appendix I. Case study for logical partitioning of a two-cluster grid

    Appendix J. Configuring externally managed encryption