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<h1 class="topictitle1">Plan for a tape solution</h1>
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<div><p>Several things need to be considered when planning for a tape solution.</p>
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<ul><li>Whether to use tape management software</li>
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<li>The capabilities of the tape solution</li>
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<li>Possible connection configurations with your iSeries™ server</li>
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<li>Physical requirements for the tape solution</li>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Tape management software</h4><ul><li>Tape resource management with Backup Recovery and Media Services</li>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Capabilities of the tape solution</h4><ul><li>Comparison of tape solutions</li>
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<li>Eight-millimeter cartridge and tape unit compatibility</li>
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<li>Quarter-inch cartridge and tape unit compatibility</li>
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<li>Half-inch and Magstar<sup>®</sup> MP cartridges and tape unit compatibility</li>
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<li>LTO Ultrium cartridges and tape unit compatibility</li>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Connection configurations with your iSeries server</h4><ul><li>Multiple iSeries servers
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sharing a tape library</li>
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<li>Multiple tape libraries on an iSeries server</li>
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<li>Multiple tape drives in a tape library</li>
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<li>Configurations of different platforms with a tape library</li>
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<p>You can navigate to the physical planning information for your specific
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tape device from the Tapes Supported on iSeries Web site.</p>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4backup.htm">Tape resource management with BRMS</a></strong><br />
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Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) is a licensed program that helps you implement a disciplined approach to managing your backups, and provides you with an orderly way to retrieve lost or damaged data.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4tapevstape.htm">Comparison of tape solutions</a></strong><br />
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The iSeries server
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supports several different single tape devices, autoloaders, and tape libraries.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4eigthmmcompat.htm">Eight-millimeter cartridge and tape unit compatibility</a></strong><br />
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The iSeries supports
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several tape unit types.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4quarterincompat.htm">Quarter-inch cartridge and tape unit compatibility</a></strong><br />
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For full read-and-write capability, there are guidelines for determining which tape cartridges to use for each tape unit.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4halfmagcompat.htm">Half-inch and Magstar MP cartridges and tape unit compatibility</a></strong><br />
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This table shows which tape units and half-inch and Magstar MP
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cartridges are compatible.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4ultriumcompat.htm">LTO cartridges and tape unit compatibility</a></strong><br />
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This table shows which Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium tape units and cartridges are compatible.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4imp3494multiple.htm">Multiple iSeries servers sharing a tape library</a></strong><br />
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The IBM<sup>®</sup> TotalStorage<sup>®</sup> Enterprise
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Tape Library 3494 can be shared by as many as 32 iSeries servers.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4multdataservers.htm">Multiple tape libraries on an iSeries server</a></strong><br />
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The iSeries server
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supports attachment to multiple 3494 IBM<sup>®</sup> TotalStorage<sup>®</sup> Enterprise Tape Libraries.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4mulitconfig.htm">Multiple tape drives in a 3494 Tape Library Dataserver</a></strong><br />
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Larger iSeries servers can reduce backup times by breaking
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the operation into multiple concurrent save operations to multiple devices.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzam4diffcon.htm">Configurations of different platforms with the 3494 Enterprise Tape Library</a></strong><br />
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The IBM<sup>®</sup> TotalStorage<sup>®</sup> Enterprise
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Tape Library 3494 can be shared by iSeries servers, pSeries<sup>®</sup> servers and ES/9000<sup>®</sup> systems
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for a total of 16 systems. The iSeries servers can share cartridges
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in the library.</li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzam4tape.htm" title="This topic describes the advantages and limitations of using tape for storage. It makes some recommendations about when tape is a good choice and when you should consider other media. It also provides planning, setup, management, and troubleshooting information for stand-alone tape devices and tape libraries.">Tape</a></div>
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<div class="relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br />
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<div><a href="http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/hardware/storage/iseriestape.html" target="_blank">Tapes Supported on iSeries</a></div>
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