Book description
IBM® TS7700 is a family of mainframe virtual tape solutions that optimize data protection and business continuance for IBM z Systems™ data. Through the use of virtualization and disk cache, the TS7700 family operates at disk speeds while maintaining compatibility with existing tape operations. Its fully integrated tiered storage hierarchy takes advantage of both disk and tape technologies to deliver performance for active data and best economics for inactive and archive data. This IBM Redbooks® publication describes the TS7700 R3.3 architecture, planning, migration, implementation, and operations.
The latest TS7700 family of z Systems tape virtualization is
offered as two models:
IBM TS7720 features encryption-capable high-capacity cache that
uses 3 TB SAS disk drives with RAID 6, which can scale to large
capacities with the highest level of data protection.
IBM TS7740 features encryption-capable 600 GB SAS drives with
RAID 6 protection.
Both models write data by policy to physical tape through
attachment to high-capacity, high-performance IBM TS1150 and
earlier IBM 3592 model tape drives that are installed in IBM TS3500
tape libraries. Physical tape support is optional on TS7720. TS7700
R3.3 also supports external key management for disk-based
encryption by using IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager.
This book intended for system architects who want to integrate their storage systems for smoother operation.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- Preface
- Part 1 Architecture and planning
- Chapter 1. Introducing the IBM TS7700
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Chapter 2. Architecture, components, and functional characteristics
- 2.1 TS7700 architecture
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2.2 Stand-alone cluster: Components, functions, and features
- 2.2.1 Views from the Host: Library IDs
- 2.2.2 Tape Volume Cache
- 2.2.3 Virtual volumes and logical volumes
- 2.2.4 Mounting a scratch virtual volume
- 2.2.5 Mounting a specific virtual volume
- 2.2.6 Logical WORM support and characteristics
- 2.2.7 Virtual drives
- 2.2.8 Selective Device Access Control
- 2.2.9 Physical drives
- 2.2.10 Stacked volume
- 2.2.11 Selective Dual Copy function
- 2.2.12 General TVC management in a stand-alone cluster
- 2.2.13 TVC Cache management in a TS7740 stand-alone cluster
- 2.2.14 TVC cache management in a TS7720 and TS7720T CP0 stand-alone cluster
- 2.2.15 TVC Cache management in a TS7720T CPx stand-alone cluster
- 2.2.16 Expired virtual volumes and the Delete Expired function
- 2.2.17 TVC management processes for TS7740 or TS7720T CPx
- 2.2.18 TVC handling in outage situations
- 2.2.19 Copy Consistency Point: Copy policy modes in a stand-alone cluster
- 2.2.20 TVC selection in a stand-alone cluster
- 2.2.21 TVC encryption
- 2.2.22 Physical volume pools
- 2.2.23 Logical and stacked volume management
- 2.2.24 Secure Data Erase function
- 2.2.25 Copy Export function
- 2.2.26 Encryption of physical tapes
- 2.2.27 User Management: Roles and profiles
- 2.2.28 Security identification by using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- 2.2.29 Service preparation mode
- 2.2.30 Service mode
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2.3 Multi-cluster grid configurations: Components, functions, and features
- 2.3.1 Rules in a multi-cluster grid
- 2.3.2 Required grid hardware
- 2.3.3 Data integrity by volume ownership
- 2.3.4 I/O TVC selection
- 2.3.5 Copy Consistency Points
- 2.3.6 Cluster family concept
- 2.3.7 Override settings concept
- 2.3.8 Host view of a multi-cluster grid and Library IDs
- 2.3.9 Tape Volume Cache
- 2.3.10 Virtual volumes and logical volumes
- 2.3.11 Mounting a scratch virtual volume
- 2.3.12 Mounting a specific virtual volume
- 2.3.13 Logical WORM support and characteristics
- 2.3.14 Virtual drives
- 2.3.15 Allocation assistance
- 2.3.16 Selective Device Access Control
- 2.3.17 Physical drives
- 2.3.18 Stacked volume
- 2.3.19 Selective Dual Copy function
- 2.3.20 General TVC management in multi-cluster grids
- 2.3.21 Expired virtual volumes and the Delete Expired function
- 2.3.22 TVC management for TS7740 and TS7720T CPx in a multi-cluster grid
- 2.3.23 TVC management for TS7720 in a multi-cluster grid
- 2.3.24 TVC management processes in a multi-cluster grid
- 2.3.25 Copy Consistency Point: Copy policy modes in a multi-cluster grid
- 2.3.26 TVC (I/O) selection in a multi-cluster grid
- 2.3.27 TVC handling in an unavailability condition
- 2.3.28 Remote (cross) cluster mounts
- 2.3.29 TVC encryption
- 2.3.30 Logical and stacked volume management
- 2.3.31 Secure Data Erase
- 2.3.32 Copy Export
- 2.3.33 Encryption of physical tapes
- 2.3.34 Autonomic Ownership Takeover Manager
- 2.3.35 Selective Write Protect for disaster recovery testing
- 2.3.36 FlashCopy for disaster recovery testing R3.1
- 2.3.37 Service preparation mode
- 2.3.38 Service mode
- 2.4 Grid configuration examples
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Chapter 3. IBM TS7700 usage considerations
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Gather your business requirements
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3.3 Features and functions for all TS7700 models
- 3.3.1 Stand alone versus grid environments
- 3.3.2 Sharing a TS7700
- 3.3.3 Tape Volume Cache selection
- 3.3.4 Copy Consistency policy
- 3.3.5 Synchronous mode copy
- 3.3.6 Override policies
- 3.3.7 Cluster family
- 3.3.8 Logical Volume Delete Expire Processing versus previous implementations
- 3.3.9 Encryption
- 3.3.10 z/OS Allocation assistance
- 3.3.11 25 GB logical volumes
- 3.4 Features and functions available only for the TS7720T
- 3.5 Operation aspects: Monitoring and alerting
- 3.6 Choosing a migration method
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Chapter 4. Preinstallation planning and sizing
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4.1 Hardware installation and infrastructure planning
- 4.1.1 System requirements
- 4.1.2 Tape drives and media support (TS7740 and TS7720T)
- 4.1.3 Limitations
- 4.1.4 TCP/IP configuration considerations
- 4.1.5 Remote installations and FICON switch support
- 4.1.6 Factors that affect performance at a distance
- 4.1.7 Host attachments
- 4.1.8 FICON Director support
- 4.1.9 FICON channel extenders
- 4.1.10 Cascaded switches
- 4.1.11 Planning for LDAP for user authentication in your TS7700 subsystem
- 4.2 Planning for a grid operation
- 4.3 Planning for software implementation
- 4.4 Planning for logical and physical volumes
- 4.5 Tape analysis and sizing the TS7700
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4.1 Hardware installation and infrastructure planning
- Part 2 Implementation and migration
- Chapter 5. IBM TS7700 implementation
- Chapter 6. Hardware configurations and upgrade considerations
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Chapter 7. Migration
- 7.1 Migration to a TS7700
- 7.2 Upgrading drive models in an existing TS7740 or TS7720T
- 7.3 Moving data in and out of the TS7700
- 7.4 Migration of DFSMShsm managed data
- 7.5 DFSMSrmm and other tape management systems
- 7.6 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
- 7.7 DFSMSdss
- 7.8 Object access method
- 7.9 Database backups
- Part 3 Operation
- Chapter 8. Operation
- Chapter 9. Host Console operations
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Chapter 10. Performance and monitoring
- 10.1 Overview
- 10.2 TS7700 performance characteristics
- 10.3 Performance overview
- 10.4 Monitoring TS7700 performance
- 10.5 TS7700 cache throughput
- 10.6 Adjusting the TS7700
- 10.7 Bulk Volume Information Retrieval
- 10.8 IBM Tape Tools
- 10.9 Using Volume Mount Analyzer
- 10.10 Using VEHSTATS and VEHGRXCL for monitoring and reporting
- 10.11 IBM z/OS commands for monitoring
- 10.12 What to look for and where
- 10.13 Virtual Device Allocation in z/OS with JES2
- Chapter 11. Copy Export
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Chapter 12. Disaster recovery
- 12.1 TS7700 disaster recovery principles
- 12.2 Failover scenarios
- 12.3 Planning for disaster recovery
- 12.4 High availability and disaster recovery configurations
- 12.5 Disaster recovery testing basics
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12.6 Disaster recovery testing detailed procedures for FlashCopy
- 12.6.1 Planning your disaster recovery test
- 12.6.2 Running Phase 1: Preparation
- 12.6.3 Running Phase 2: Enablement
- 12.6.4 Running Phase 3: Running the disaster recovery test
- 12.6.5 Running Phase 4: Cleaning up
- 12.6.6 Running Phase 5: Disabling the Write Protect and FlashCopy
- 12.6.7 Expected failures during the DR test
- 12.7 Disaster recovery testing detailed procedures for alternatives before Release 3.1
- 12.8 A real disaster
- 12.9 Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex for z/OS
- Part 4 Appendixes
- Appendix A. Feature codes and RPQ
- 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
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM TS7700 Release 3.3
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2016
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738441658
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