Compaq StorageWorks TL895 DLT Library

The TL895 DLT automated tape library is an existing Compaq offering, released in March 1998 by Digital, as a high-performance, free-standing DLT tape library targeting the departmental secondary storage market. The TL895 product is a 96 slot automated library unit, available with two through seven DLT7000 drives.

The TL895 has been qualified as a direct attached device to existing Compaq ProLiant and Alpha platforms, running NT and NetWare Operating Systems using industry standard application software.

The TL895 offers multiple terabytes of automated DLT backup and restore for mission critical data running under UNIX, Windows NT and NetWare operating environments. It is the only high capacity DLT device that is fully qualified by Compaq to run on both ProLiant servers and AlphaServer series. The TL895's scalable performance, using add-on DLT7000 drives, allows for customized configurations, enabling the end user to tune the device to meet their backup and restore time requirements.

Key Features

• Supports up to seven DLT7000 drives for native transfer rates up to 126 GB/hr
• Stores up to 6.7TB of data capacity (using 2:1 compression)
• Highest robotic reliability with >2 million mean swaps between failure
• Compact form factor uses only 6 sq. ft. of valuable floor space
• Offers automatic calibration of drives, slots and I/O port
• User friendly GUI control panel with multi-functional capabilities:
  • setting SCSI ID's
  • exercising robot
  • drive cleaning
  • operating load port
  • error description and reporting
• Compatible with major O/S and ISV software products
• Easy bulk loading through side panel or single loading / unloading through I/O port
• Easily serviced drives and robotic unit

Key Benefits

• Can be used to backup multiple servers/databases within a single manageable unit
• Enables shorter backup windows with high throughput capability
• Compatible with wide variety of end user installations (operating systems, application software, platforms)
• Does not take up valuable floor space in customers data center
• High reliability equate to less downtime
• Library can be managed from a remote central site using Compaq Insight Manager
• Does not require special training to operate

Target Environments

The TL895 was developed for customers operating traditional Compaq / NT based solutions within the departmental environments or enterprise space, customers who are moving away from larger mainframe based applications. The solution is also ideal for, customers managing large data base applications (SAP, BAAN, Oracle), and need a high capacity centralized automated backup strategy.

The TL895 is targeted toward backup and restore applications for large database servers running mission critical consolidated databases (Finance, Insurance, Medical, and Research). These data base applications typically operate on enterprise class servers with >350GB server storage. These organizations have a requirement for frequent full backups at a single consolidated site and have forecasted data growth rates in excess of 25% per year.

General Product Information

Capacity (native):
6.72 TB

Performance (MB/second native):
- 5 MB/second per drive
- Can be configured for 2 through 7 drives
- Drive add-on units available

Tape Technology:
DLT 7000

External Form Factor:
56.5"H x 23.5"W x 36.5"D

SCSI Interface:
FWD

MSBF:
2,000,000

MTBF:
170,000 hours