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IBM 3590 Total Storage

The 3590 models B1A, E1A, and H1A are designed for automated tape libraries, including the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Automated Tape Library 3494, IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server, and StorageTek Silos. A 3494 with the 3590 E1A drive capacity is up to 1,122TB*

High performance tape drives for automated tape libraries

Designed for use in the 3494 Tape Library, Virtual Tape Server and other automated tape libraries for up to 150GB per hour of compressed backup per tape drive

Two tape drive models to choose from for automation providing capacity and performance options

The 3590 models B11, E11, and H11 are rack-mounted tape drives with an Automatic Cartridge Facility (ACF).

The 10 cartridge ACF allows the drives  to be used as a mini-library with access up to 1.8TB* of data.

The 3590 B11/ E11/H11 can be converted to a B1A / E1A/H11 for use in a fully automated library system

Mini - library support for distributed stand alone server environments

10 slot cartridge auto loader for sequential or random access to up to 1.8TB of compressed data

Integrated operator / service display showing device status, activities, error conditions and messages.

3590 Models B11, E11, and H11 for standalone "mini" library configurations in racks and frames or Models B1A, E1A, and H1A as part of the 3494 Tape Library.

Up to 42MB per second or 150GB per hour sustained data throughput (3590 Model E Fibre Channel drive with 3:1 compression)

3590 Model E and H drives can be configured with dual Fibre ports for up to 100MB per second bus data burst rates, drive sharing capabilities, and SAN failover support for AIX servers¹

Native FICON connectivity for high performance and a reduction in tape operation infrastructure

3590 Model A60, in addition to ESCON, now provides native FICON connections for selected zSeries and S/390 servers. One FICON connection can do similar work as four ESCON connections.

3590 Silo Compatible Tape Drive Frames are implemented in StorageTek Silo tape libraries for multiple computing environments including SCSI, Fibre, ESCON or Native FICON

Upgrade a Model B to a Model E and get up to double the capacity on existing cartridges and up to 50% more performance potential.

Upgrade a Model E to a Model H and get up to 50 percent more capacity on existing cartridges with the same performance.

Upgrade a Model B to a Model H and get up to triple the capacity on existing cartridges and up to 50% more performance potential.

Native SAN connections for high speed tape data processing, drive sharing, and storage consolidation

¹AIX High Availability Failover provides an exclusive failover mechanism in the AIX tape device driver that allows you to configure multiple redundant paths in a SAN environment to E and H Model Tape Drives having Fibre Channel Attachment. In the event of a path or component failure, the failover mechanism is designed to automatically provide error recovery to retry the current operation using an alternate, preconfigured path without aborting the current job in progress. This allows you flexibility in SAN configuration, availability and management.

IBM TotalStorageT Silo Compatible Tape Frame 3590

 Highlights

. ESCON® and FICONT tape solution     . Designed for high performance, capacity, and reliability     . Higher performance with FICON long wavelength or short wavelength attachments than ESCON     . SCSI or Fibre Channel drive attachment     . Multisystem S/390® and IBM zSeriesT connectivity     . Drive sharing between ESCON and FICON servers

Frame-mounted 3590 Model E11s

Overview

The IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3590 consists of a family of powerful integrated storage solutions that combine high capacity, performance, and reliability for stand-alone and automated enterprise-attached systems. With native FIbre CONnection (FICON) attachment, the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Controller 3590 Model A60 can provide even greater improvements in tape performance and attachment distance when compared with Enterprise System CONnection (ESCON).

3590 Tape System

The 3590 Model A60 Controller, with up to four times the performance of the Model A50, is designed for leading-edge, high- performance ESCON and FICON attachment of the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3590 to S/390 enterprise servers and zSeries 900 servers. Using IBM Seascape® architecture to combine widely accepted IBM components RS/6000® base, AIX® operating system, PowerPC® 604E microprocessors, and PCI bus architecture the Model A60 is designed for high performance and enables resource sharing to help reduce hardware and infrastructure costs.

The 3590 A60 Controller attaches to 3590 Model B or Model E Tape Drives via a standard Ultra SCSI interface. The 3590 A60 Controller offers a Fibre Channel feature for attaching 3590 Model E Tape Drives with the Fibre Channel interface using the IBM 2109 S16 SAN Fibre Channel Switch. The 3590 Model E Tape Drive provides an uncompressed data rate of up to 14 MB/sec, approximately 55 percent faster than the 3590 Model B.

The 3590 is designed to reduce job processing time, as well as cartridge and equipment requirements all at an affordable price for Data Facility Hierarchical Storage Manager (DFSMShsmT), master file processing, volume dumps, image storage, and other uses.

Solution flexibility

3590 Tape Drives are the foundation of a variety of storage solutions from stand-alone (3590 A14 or standard racks) to automated (IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Automated Tape Library 3494, including the IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server) solutions. As a reusable storage asset, 3590 Tape Drives and the Model A60 Controller can also operate with StorageTek Automated Cartridge Systems (ACS), helping to extend the 3590 investment even further.

Increased cartridge capacity

The 3590 High Performance Tape Cartridge has a native capacity of 10 GB on Model B and 20 GB on Model E Tape Drives. The Lempel-Ziv data compression technique provides capacity up to 30 GB on Model B and 60 GB on Model E Tape Drives. The 3590 Extended High Performance Tape Cartridge has a native capacity of 20 GB on Model B and 40 GB on Model E Tape Drives. The LZ1 data compression technique provides capacity of up to 60 GB on Model B and 120 GB on Model E Tape Drives.

New 3590 A60 hardware enhancements can help improve application performance and capacity utilization. Now, applications operating in 3490 E emulation mode that write small blocks can exploit the capacity of the 3590 Model E and extended length cartridge. This capacity enhancement can also be exploited by DFSMShsm.

The high capacity of the media can result in fewer tape mounts and fewer cartridges required to store a given amount of data. This translates into less floor space required for cartridge storage.

ESCON and FICON channel attachments

The 3590 A60 Controller includes one to four dual-ported ESCON channel attachment features, providing attachment to as many as eight ESCON channels. Now, with native FICON support, up to two FICON long wavelength or short wavelength attachment features are supported on the A60 Controller, providing attachment to one or two FICON channels. The FICON maximum channel link speed of 100 MB/sec full duplex (versus 17 MB/sec simplex for ESCON) helps enhance tape drive performance. Both ESCON and FICON attachments are supported on the Model A60, enabling 3590 Tape Drives to be shared between ESCON and FICON servers. Each ESCON or FICON channel can support up to 64 logical channels, with multiple logical paths per MVS® image.

The 3590 A60 now supports high-speed location to relative file position. This capability can significantly improve read performance for file-stacking applications that access by file number rather than block ID. The A60 also offers significantly improved write performance for applications that stack multiple small files on a tape. The performance gain is achieved through the elimination of costly redundant, rewritten tape marks, and the associated backhitch. These new performance capabilities of the hardware can be exploited by OS/390(R) and z/OS® and are designed to be transparent to the user application.

Cost effectiveness

The IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3590's large capacity and high performance means that significantly fewer resources such as hardware, tape cartridges, floor space, shelf space, and automation slots are required. The high performance of FICON enables multiple ESCON channels to be replaced with a single FICON channel. The resulting reduced infrastructure of fewer channels, director ports, and channel addresses on the server can help lower storage costs.

Investment protection

To help provide investment protection, existing 3590 Model B11 and B1A Tape Drives can be field-upgraded for a charge to the new E models. Media investment is also preserved, because the new Model E Tape Drives can read and reuse existing cartridges.

FICON is an option on new and currently installed 3590 A60 Controllers. An A60 with FICON is supported with 3590 Model B or E Tape Drives, as well as in current tape libraries and frames further preserving existing investments in tape hardware.

3590 Tape Drives

The 3590 Model B11 and E11 are frame- or rack-mounted and incorporate a 10-cartridge Automated Cartridge Facility (ACF) for high-capacity (up to 1.2 TB for Model E11s) unattended operation. The 3590 B1A and E1A are designed to be used in a IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Automated Tape Library 3494, IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server, and IBM TotalStorage Silo Compatible Tape Drive Frame.

 Ease of use

With the 3590 B11 or E11, cartridges are loaded into and unloaded from the ACF in a convenient, portable 10-cartridge magazine. The ACF has multiple modes of operation accumulate, automatic, manual, and system all of which can be selected from the operator display. 3590 Tape Drives feature an operator/service display showing device status, activities, error conditions, and messages.

 Configurations

The 3590 A60 Controller is part of the following solutions.

Adjacent frame and multiframe support

The adjacent frame support features on the Enterprise Tape Library 3494 enable 3590 Tape Drives residing in a 3494 D12, L12, or L14 frame to attach to a 3590 A60 in an adjacent 3494 D14 frame. Up to 10 3590 Tape Drives can attach to a single 3590 A60 in a 3494 solution.

Multiframe options are available for the 3590 Model A60 in stand- alone rack, frame, and Silo Compatible Frame solutions. This support enables a single A60 to attach to up to eight SCSI- attached 3590 drives or up to twelve Fibre Channel-attached drives. These expanded attachment options for the 3590 Model A60 make it very cost-effective compared to other tape solutions.

 S/390 software for ESCON

 Software for FICON

The 3590 A60 Controller with native FICON is supported with various levels of OS/390, z/OS, VM/ESA, z/VM, VSE/ESA, and TPF.

 Storage management software

 IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3590 at a glance .

Model Number	B11	B1A	A60	A14	E11	E1A
3590 characteristics
LZ1 compression	Standard	Standard	na	na	Standard	Standard
Recording technique(interleaved serpentine longitudinal)	Standard	Standard	na	na	Standard	Standard
Number of tracks¹	128	128	na	na	256	256
10-cartridge magazine	Standard	na	na	na	Standard	na
Cartridge capacity	10GB (30GB)²	10GB (30GB)²	na	na	20GB (60GB)²	20GB (60GB)²
Extended cartridge capacity	20GB (60GB)²	20GB (60GB)²	na	na	40GB (120GB)²	40GB (120GB)²
Total capacity	Up to 600 GB²	see note³	na	na	Up to 1.2 TB²	see note³
Performance and connectivity
3590 drive attachment Ultra SCSI Fibre Channel	na na	na na	Standard  Optional	na na	na na	na na
Maximum drive rate	9 MB/sec	9 MB/sec	na	na	14 MB/sec	14 MB/sec
High speed search	5 m/sec	5 m/sec	na	na	5 m/sec	5 m/sec
ESCON maximum channel link speed	na	na	17 MB/sec	na	na	na
FICON maximum channel link speed	na	na	100 MB/sec	na	na	na
ESCON maximum distance (unrepeated)	na	na	3km	na	na	na
FICON long wavelength maximum distances (unrepeated)	na	na	10km 20km(RPQ)	na	na	na
FICON short wavelength maximum distances (unrepeated)	na	na	500 m	na	na	na
Number of ESCON interfaces	na	na	Up to 8	na	na	na
Number of FICON interfaces	na	na	Up to 2	na	na	na
Packaging
Library, rack-mount, or frame mount.	Rack, frame	Library, frame	Library, rack, frame	Frame for B11,B1A, E11, E1A	Rack, frame	Library, frame
Operating Environment
Temperature with media in use 60° F to 90° F (16° C to 32° C)	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Relative humidity (20% to 80%)	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Wet bulb maximum (73.4° F; 23° C)	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Heat output (BTU/hr)	1024	1024	1700	.341	770	770
Power requirements (kVA)	0.300	0.300	0.500	0.100	0.225	0.225
¹ B Models use eight sets of 16 tracks; E Models use 16 sets of tracks ² Depending on data content, with 3:1 LZ1 data compression ³ Depending on library model, since B1A and E1A Models reside in an IBM Magstar 3494 (or in a C12 or C14 frame for the StorageTek 4410 or 9310 ACS)
IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3590 dimensions
Model Number	B11	B1A	A60	A14	E11	E1A
Height	20.6" (522 mm)	10.5" (262 mm)	15.8" (401 mm)	70.9" (1800 mm)	20.6" (522 mm)	10.5" (262 mm)
Width	9.2" (230 mm)	8.8" (221 mm)	19.0" (483 mm)	28.5" (724 mm)	9.1" (230 mm)	8.8" (221 mm)
Depth	39.0" (988 mm)	29.8" (750 mm)	24.5" (622 mm)	43.3" (1099 mm)	39.0" (988 mm)	29.8" (750 mm)
Weight	109.0lbs (49.5 kg)	63.0 lbs (28.6 kg)	Up to 165.0lbs (75.0 kg)	670.0 lbs (295.0 kg)	103.0 lbs (46.7 kg)	66.0 lbs (30.0 kg)

IBM TotalStorageT Enterprise Tape Controller 3590 Model A60

The 3590 Model A60 Controller allows the attachment of high performance and high capacity 3590 Tape Drives to ESCON and FICON Servers. It provides enhanced performance and connectivity as compared to prior offerings.

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