Expansion Drawer for IBM TS7620 ProtecTIER De-Dupe Appliance

IBM System Storage TS7620 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express is designed to improve backup and recovery operations without requiring major changes to the existing infrastructure.

The TS7620 requires IBM System Storage ProtecTIER Entry Edition software, and may be configured as a VTL, an OpenStorage (OST) system interfacing with Symantec NetBackup, or a file systems interface (FSI) by functioning as a NFS backup target. ProtecTIER supports FSI mount points for NFS and CIFS to be defined on the same ProtecTIER system.

TS7620, comprised of the TS7620 and System Storage ProtecTIER Entry Edition V3.3, is designed to improve backup and recovery operations without requiring major changes to the existing infrastructure. This is an option for midsize and enterprise customers with smaller remote offices that need to address data growth.

V3.3 software augments its FSI by functioning as a NFS backup target. ProtecTIER supports FSI mount points for NFS and CIFS to be defined on the same ProtecTIER system. V3.3 supports replication between a maximum of eight ProtecTIER FSI systems. Any of them is limited to a maximum of three target systems within the replication grid per replication policy.

V3.3 continues support for the VTL interface that has been the foundation of ProtecTIER offerings, Symantec NetBackup OST API announced with V2.5. Supported replication grid configurations for ProtecTIER OST and ProtecTIER VTL systems are unchanged with V3.3.

V3.3 is the follow up to V3.2.

TS7620 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express
includes:

1/ IBM ProtecTIER deduplication technology

2/ Integrated processing power and disk storage:

• 2U enclosure
• Mounting brackets and a shelf (which makes the total unit 3Us)
• Fits in standard 19-inch rack
• Twelve 2TB Nearline SAS disks
• One Xeon E5645 Westmere 6 core 2.4GHz processor
• 48GB RAM
• One Intel Pro/1000 PT dual-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter and one Emulex LPe11002 FC HBA (VTL)
• Two Intel Pro/1000 PT dual-port GibE adapters and one Intel Pro/1000 PT quad-port GbE adapter (CIFS/NFS, OST)
• One FC power cord from the SM2 to the frame power supply
• One external USB SATA DVD-ROM drive and cable (this will sit on the mounting shelf)
• 8Gb FC Dual Port HBA – Host (added as a feature code)

3/ VTL functionality emulating:

• Up to 4 virtual TS3500 tape libraries
• Up to 64 virtual LTO-3 tape drives
• Up to 8,192 virtual tape cartridges

4/ Optional ProtecTIER IP replication to electronically replicate to an offsite location for improved DR capabilities

5/ Reduction of data volume through deduplication of up to 25:1

7/SM2 expansions (up to two expansion units 3959-EXP)

V3.3 supports additional repository capacities available on TS7620 systems using the TS7620 Storage Expansion Drawer model EXP. When one model EXP is attached to the TS7620 base model SM2, V3.3 will support a repository size of approximately 23TB. When two model EXP are attached to the TS7620 base model SM2, V3.3 will support a repository size of approximately 35TB. For Customers achieving data deduplication ratios of 25 to 1, a 35TB repository can contain 875TB of backup data.

TS7620 Base model SM2 – Repository capacity options:

• 6TB (base, software limited)
• 12TB (base, software full cap)
• 23TB (base, software full cap + 1 expansion drawer)
• 35TB (base, software full cap + 2 expansion drawers)

Key prerequisites
ProtecTIER Entry Edition software is loaded on the TS7620 ProtecTIER to create a TS7620 appliance solution.

V3.3 is required in order to reach the 23TB or 35TB repositories sizes attaching one or two TS7620 Deduplication Express Expansion Drawer respectively (EXP) to the TS7620 Deduplication Express appliance (SM2).

A separate order for IBM System Storage ProtecTIER Entry Edition software is required.

Planned availability date:
February 5, 2013