With today's dwindling IT budgets, Administrators and other IT professionals are aggressively searching for ways to maximize investments in existing storage infrastructures. This fact, coupled with shrinking backup windows, and escalating data growth, and the need for a cost-effective, reliable business continuity solution, are pushing the limits of internal resources.
The Virtual Tape Library Appliance VTL 4020 is a turnkey solution that emulates leading tape libraries to deliver the speed, reliability, and availability benefits of disk-based backup while enabling the use of existing tape backup software and procedures. It enhances an IP or SCSI SAN to accelerate backup and restore speeds and consolidate the management and provisioning of backup resources.
The VTL Appliance leverages the IP or SCSI protocol to transfer data to and restore data from a disk-based virtual tape, at ultra high speeds. It also maximizes the reliability by eliminating robotic mechanical failures and physical tape media errors.
The VTL 4020 is available with an upgrade option that gives it the capability to import and export to actual tape. Data movement between the VTL Appliance virtual tape to physical tape media is accomplished as a secondary task. This process can be completed at any time of day without impacting application performance. Remote vaulting and offsite tape storage are a snap when using the Virtual Tape Library Appliance to provision virtual tape media/libraries over an IP network.
Key Virtual Tape Library Benefits
Minimizes Total Cost of Ownership
Easily provisions tape drives over IP or SCSI.
Seamlessly integrates into an existing environment and leverages existing IT infrastructure and expertise.
Leverages storage infrastructure to automate tape mirroring, replication and vaulting.
Lowers acquisition cost of storage networking technology.
Eliminates requirement for multiple software licenses and individual management of storage software for each server.
Ships preconfigured and fully tested from the factory.
Single point of customer support.
Maximizes Performance and Return on Investment
Leverages IP SAN or SCSI to enable third-party backup software to transfer software to/from virtual tape at ultra high speeds.
Eliminates media/mechanical failure during backup/restore operations.
Administrators and users achieve greater productivity due to elimination of downtime coupled with reliable data availability.
SAN-based virtual tape enables third-party backup software to restore data at ultra high speeds, reducing downtime.
Ensures end-to-end path/appliance/storage high availability via redundancy.
Leverages failover and failback capabilities of industry leading intelligent storage controllers for maximum availability and reliability
Quick Easy Steps to VTL Appliance Deployment
1. Connect the VTL Appliance to the network
2. Create virtual tape libraries, each with one or more virtual tape drives
3. Offer the virtual tape drive/libraries to the existing backup server
4. Use existing third party backup software to backup and restore data to/from the virtual tape drive or library
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