Customer Benefits; Standard Features - HP StoreEver ESL G3 Specification

QuickSpecs
Overview

Standard Features

1. Scalability
a. Capacity on demand from 100 to 12,006 tape cartridges and 1 to 96 tape drives
b.
Scale from a choice of base configurations in increments of 100 slots
c.
Bulk import/export station for faster cartridge load and unload
d.
Library frames/expansion modules are in a standard 19-inch rack form factor
2.
High Availability
a. Dual-robotics for continous access to data
b. Redundant power supplies
c. Protect against connectivity failover through Control Path and Data Path failover
d. 3 million MSBF
3. Manageability
a.
Manage multiple libraries from a single pane of glass using Command View TL
b.
Intuitive web GUI
c.
Receive predictive and proactive status and alerts from TapeAssure, monitoring drives, library and media health for
dependable data storage
d.
Leading library management tools for monitoring, configuration, upgrading, and troubleshooting
e.
Automated Media Pool delivers flexible partitioning to meet data growth requirements without reconfiguring software
applications
4. Security
a. Hardware based data encryption through HP's Enterprise Secure Key Manager (ESKM), or by license to SafeNet's KMIP
compliant encryption key manager
5. Longevity
a.
Ideal for archiving cold or active data with a media shelf-life of up to 30 years
b.
Lowest cost per Gbyte for longer term storage, no on-going power or energy requirement
c.
Portable, high density storage, small footprint with up to 6.35TB of compressed data on a single LTO-6 data cartridge
d. StoreOpen/LTFS for ease of use and assured interchange

Customer Benefits

1. Capacity on demand
Only buy what you need today and add storage capacity as you need it
Investment protection - scale up to 75 PBs without disruption to ongoing data protection
More storage capacity in less floor space
Tape consolidation through capacity, performance, partitioning and high availability results in a lower total cost of
ownership.
2.
Continuous data protection
The Libraries' dual-robotics capability means you can have continuous access to your active data; the ESL G3 is the
smallest form factor dual-robotics library available today.
Increased library uptime by providing library LUN control failover and drive port to port failover
High SAN availability since management traffic stays out of the data path
3. Reduced cost of ownership
Easier to manage multiple libraries from a single pane of glass
Enhanced manageability from any location.
Proactive and predictive library maintenance supported by HP TapeAssure and HP Library and Tape Tools
Delivers best-in-class interoperability with Enterprise Backup Solutions (EBS) without "special" work-a-rounds
Flexible partitioning means that media can be assigned to partitions as data storage needs grow without reconfiguring
software applications
4. Enhanced data security
Provides a high level of encryption security, with compression, for strong backup data privacy to secure confidential
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