IBM TS7700 R6.0 Cloud Storage Tier GuidePhillip Gerrard, Larry Coyne, Yuki Asakura, Dave Brettell, Ramón A. Minjares Campos, Nielson ’Nino’ de Carvalho, Andrew Enriquez, Rin Fujiwara, Nobuhiko Furuya, Lourie Goodall, Joe Hew Kousei, Kawamura Ryuta Nakagawa, Stefan Neff, Takeshi Nohta, Tomoaki Ogino, Shinya Ohri, Aderson Pacini, Daniel Riggins, Trinidad Armando Rangel Ruiz, Michael Scott, Kerri Shotwell, Taisei Takai, Nao Takemura, Erina Tatsumi, Takahiro Tsuda, Shinsuke Ueyama, Chen Zhu, IBM Redbooks Building on 25 years of virtual tape experience, the IBM® TS7700 now can store virtual tape volumes in object storage. This IBM Redpaper publication helps you set up and configure the cloud object storage support for IBM Cloud® Object Storage or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The TS7700 supported offloading to physical tape for over two decades. Using a TS7700 to offload to physical tape is a process that is used by hundreds of organizations around the world. By using the same hierarchical storage techniques, the TS7700 also can offload to object storage. Because object storage is cloud-based and accessible from different regions, the TS7700 Cloud Storage Tier support essentially allows the cloud to be an extension of the grid. In this publication, we provide a brief overview of cloud technology with an emphasis on Object Storage. Object Storage is used by a broad set of technologies, including those technologies that are exclusive to IBM Z®. The aim of this publication is to provide a basic understanding of cloud, object storage, and different ways it can be integrated into your environment. This publication is intended for system architects and storage administrators with TS7700 experience who want to add the support of a cloud storage tier to their TS7700 solution. |
