DSI Introduces VTL for Up to 64,000 Virtual Cartridges

Dynamic Solutions International, provider of data storage solutions and professional services for businesses and enterprises, announced the availability of their latest generation of Virtual Tape Library (VTL) product offerings for data backup and recovery, the DSI9003 (version 2.1). The release of the new platforms provides a simpler path for growing solutions at the end user’s site.

       

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Using a common platform and appearance, these units are completely scalable to fit the requirements for small business needs to enterprise-class disk-based backup solutions. The DSI9003 VTL series continues the future-proof architecture, with a broad array of redundant components and an advanced user interface. Preserving the investment in backup policy, the DSI9003 products leverage inbuilt high speed disk to provision virtual tape drives to backup servers that are attached to an iSCSI/IP or FC storage area network (SAN). There is no need to change existing backup software configurations with DSI’s products. Additionally, the DSI9003 VTL version 2.1 is certified with leading backup applications to maximize compatibility and ensure fast, seamless deployment, and offers standard features that allow a user to copy virtual tape volumes directly to backend tape and also offer optional features to provide data de-duplication, encryption and replication functionality.

All DSI9003 VTL products use 4Gb FC and iSCSI attachment, GUI management and partitioning. The DSI9003 series begins with the DSI9253-V, offering 5TB to 9TB of uncompressed raw storage, and up to 8,000 virtual tape volumes. The next in the series is the DSI9303-D appliances, starting from 12TB of raw storage and grow-able 48TB of uncompressed raw capacity, and is an all-in-one VTL with optional data-de-duplication. The DSI9303-D products have support for 64,000 virtual cartridges and emulate a variety of tape drives and libraries. With integrated, concurrent data de-duplication, the DSI9303-D systems can store hundreds of terabytes of data and employ RAID6 data protection.

For enterprises requiring even larger capacities, the DSI9983 VTL is the largest in the series and can be clustered into high-availability configurations. With 64,000 virtual tape volumes per node, the DSI9983 offers 128,000 volume support in an active: active pair. Storage is supported through a variety of externally attached FC disk arrays from multiple vendors, or it can be offered by DSI in consistent cabinetry. To provide data de-duplication for the DSI9983-VTL, DSI9983-S96 nodes can be connected to the cluster via standard 4Gb FC SAN in N+1 redundant configurations.

“DSI continues its commitment of offering customers high performance and optimum recovery that is secure and seamlessly integrates into existing backup systems,” said Chris Johnson, vice president of storage systems for DSI. “With this latest enhancement to our offerings, DSI demonstrates an ongoing roadmap to ensure investment protection. With data de-duplication, backend tape copy, encryption, replication and scalability options that are unmatched by any other disk-based appliance in its class, our new version of the DSI9000 VTL exceeds the requirements of data-intensive operations for a high speed, tape-free backup.”