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IBM Form #: SG24-8464-05
Authors: Phil Gerrard, Phillip Gerrard, Dave Brettell, Ramón A. Minjares Campos, Rin Fujiwara, Nobuhiko Furuya, Joe Hew, Ryuta Nakagawa, Tomoaki Ogino, Aderson Pacini, Naruhiko Shirai, Jan Van Straaten, Nao Takemura, Taisei Takai and Erina Tatsumi
Abstract
This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers IBM TS7700 R6.0. 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 R6.0 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 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.
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
Special Notices
The material included in this document is in DRAFT form and is provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind. IBM is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of the material, and may update the document at any time. The final, published document may not include any, or all, of the material included herein. Client assumes all risks associated with Client's use of this document.