IBM resells Dynamic Solutions International virtual tape libraries for IBM i environments
IBM United States Software Announcement 218-064March 20, 2018
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At a glance
Dynamic Solutions International Virtual Tape Libraries (DSI VTLs) are available for purchase in IBM® i environments. IBM is reselling two VTLs:
- DSI425-D24 is designed for efficiency in small and medium environments
- DSI420-EVD is a gateway designed for efficiency in medium to large environments
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Overview
DSI VTLs are designed to help keep pace with rapidly expanding data by utilizing deduplication for data storage. As data storage requirements grow, storage modules can be added to an existing solutions to scale data storage. Investment protection is the center of this storage solution.
- Deduplication capabilities are designed for efficiency and save storage costs.
- The best industry standards are used for encryption and encryption of data at rest.
- Secure encryption at rest is standard to protect your information sitting on disk.
- Secure encryption in motion is standard to protect your information during transmission.
- Support for attaching back-end tape drives to offload data on lower cost storage media.
- Built-in replication capabilities enable setting up disaster recovery and high availability environments to guarantee data availability.
DSI VTLs are available for purchase in IBM i environments and can replace IBM ProtecTIER®.
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Key prerequisites
IBM i Server environments
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Planned availability date
March 23, 2018
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Description
Two VTLs from DSI are available for IBM i environments.
The DSI425-D24 VTL is designed for efficiency in small and medium environments and includes security and deduplication functions. Customers can set up a high availability environment by pairing two DSI425-D24 appliances, each of which can scale up to 24 TB physical storage space. This model includes disk storage to store deduplicated data.
The DSI420-EVD VTL gateway is designed for efficiency in medium to large environments to help keep pace with rapidly expanding data by utilizing deduplication for data storage. As data grows, there is no need to remove old storage. New storage modules can be added to existing DSI420-EVD systems to scale data storage environments. This model requires external disk storage arrays to store the deduplicated data. It can scale up to multipetabytes of physical capacity.
External storage is required, such as IBM Storwize® V5000, V7000, or IBM SAN Volume Controller.
A migration feature is provided to simplify the migration path from ProtecTIER to DSI VTLs.
Software is required for each of the DSI VTL appliances, it is preinstalled on the nodes before shipment.
- For IBM Storwize V5000 for small to medium environments, see Hardware Announcement 116-009, dated February 16, 2016.
- For IBM Storwize V7000 for medium to large environments, see Hardware Announcement 114-046, dated May 6, 2014.
- For IBM SAN Volume Controller, an enterprise-class storage system supporting heterogeneous storage arrays, see Hardware Announcement 116-079, dated August 23, 2016.
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Program number
| Program number | VRM | Program name |
|---|---|---|
| 5737-H07 | N/A | DSI Virtual Tape Library |
| 5737-H08 | N/A | DSI Dedupe Storage Capacity |
N/A = Not applicable
Dynamic Solutions International Virtual Tape Library (5737-H07)
| Product name | Part number | DSI name |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Up To 500TB 1 Year Support | D1WXRLL | IDSI400101-EVO IDSI400101-EVD |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Up To 500TB 2 Year Support | D1WXSLL | IDSI400101-EVO IDSI400101-EVD |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Up To 500TB 3 Year Support | D1WXTLL | IDSI400101-EVO IDSI400101-EVD |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Up To 500TB 4 Year Support | D1WXULL | IDSI400101-EVO IDSI400101-EVD |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Up To 500TB 5 Year Support | D1WXVLL | IDSI400101-EVO IDSI400101-EVD |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Over 500TB 1 Year Support | D1WXWLL | IDSI400101-EVO IDSI400101-EVD2 |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Over 500TB 2 Year Support | D1WXXLL | IDSI400101-EVO IDSI400101-EVD2 |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Over 500TB 3 Year Support | D1WXYLL | IDSI400101-EVO IDSI400101-EVD2 |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Over 500TB 4 Year Support | D1WXZLL | IDSI400101-EVO IDSI400101-EVD2 |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Over 500TB 5 Year Support | D1WY0LL | IDSI400101-EVO IDSI400101-EVD2 |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance starting at 2TB - Max 24TB 1 Year Support | D1WY1LL | IDSI425-D24 |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance starting at 2TB - Max 24TB 2 Year Support | D1WY2LL | IDSI425-D24 |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance starting at 2TB - Max 24TB 3 Year Support | D1WY3LL | IDSI425-D24 |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance starting at 2TB - Max 24TB 4 Year Support | D1WY4LL | IDSI425-D24 |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance starting at 2TB - Max 24TB 5 Year Support | D1WY5LL | IDSI425-D24 |
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Offering Information
Product information is available on the IBM Offering Information website.
More information is also available on the Passport Advantage® and Passport Advantage Express® website.
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Publications
Not applicable
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Services
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Technical information
Specified operating environment
Software requirements
See the links below for product specifications and requirements:
Product technical information
DSI Virtual Tape Library
For technical information, go to the DSI Virtual Tape Library.
Planning information
Packaging
These products are distributed from Dynamic Solutions International manufacturing.
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Ordering information
Product group: Data Protection & Storage Management
Product: DSI Virtual Tape Library (5737-H07)
Product: DSI Dedupe Storage Capacity (5737-H08)
Product category: Reseller
DSI Virtual Tape Library (5737-H07)
| Description | Part number |
|---|---|
| DSI Enterprise VTL plus Deduplication Node Up To 500 TB | |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Up To 500TB 1 Year Support | D1WXRLL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Up To 500TB 2 Year Support | D1WXSLL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Up To 500TB 3 Year Support | D1WXTLL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Up To 500TB 4 Year Support | D1WXULL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Up To 500TB 5 Year Support | D1WXVLL |
| DSI Enterprise VTL plus Deduplication Node Over 500 TB | |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Over 500TB 1 Year Support | D1WXWLL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Over 500TB 2 Year Support | D1WXXLL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Over 500TB 3 Year Support | D1WXYLL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Over 500TB 4 Year Support | D1WXZLL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Enterprise Virtual Tape Library plus Deduplication Node Over 500TB 5 Year Support | D1WY0LL |
| DSI Dedupe 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance | |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance starting at 2TB - Max 24TB 1 Year Support | D1WY1LL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance starting at 2TB - Max 24TB 2 Year Support | D1WY2LL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance starting at 2TB - Max 24TB 3 Year Support | D1WY3LL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance starting at 2TB - Max 24TB 4 Year Support | D1WY4LL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication 425 Tier 1 Base Appliance starting at 2TB - Max 24TB 5 Year Support | D1WY5LL |
| DSI Deduplication 2 port FC upgrade | |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication Port FC Upgrade | D1WY6LL |
| DSI Deduplication Spare SED Drive 4 TB, with carrier | |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication Spare SED Drive 4TB, With Carrier | D1WY7LL |
| DSI Deduplication SAS Tape Import, single interface | |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication SAS Tape Import, Single Interface | D1WY8LL |
DSI Dedupe Storage Capacity (5737-H08 )
| Description | Part number |
|---|---|
| DSI Dedupe Storage Capacity | |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication Storage Capacity Licence + 12 months Support | D1WY9LL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication Storage Capacity Licence + 24 months Support | D1WYALL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication Storage Capacity Licence + 36 months Support | D1WYBLL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication Storage Capacity Licence + 48 months Support | D1WYCLL |
| Dynamic Solutions International Deduplication Storage Capacity Licence + 60 months Support | D1WYDLL |
Charge metric
Not applicable
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Terms and conditions
The information provided in this announcement letter is for reference and convenience purposes only. The terms and conditions that govern any transaction with IBM are contained in the applicable contract documents such as the IBM International Program License Agreement, IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement, and the IBM Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance.
Licensing
Supplier's license terms apply.
Limited warranty
Not warranted by IBM. Warranty, if any, provided by supplier.
Product technical support
You may purchase product support options for one to five years with your purchase of these DSI VTL products.
DSI provides comprehensive hardware and software level 1, 2, and 3 technical support and troubleshooting assistance for customers within the support period purchased. For details visit DSI Support .
Volume orders
Not applicable
Educational allowance
No. Special education prices are available through Passport Advantage.
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Statement of good security practices
IT system security involves protecting systems and information through intrusion prevention, detection, and response to improper access from within and outside your enterprise. Improper access can result in information being altered, destroyed, or misappropriated or can result in misuse of your systems to attack others. Without a comprehensive approach to security, no IT system or product should be considered completely secure and no single product or security measure can be completely effective in preventing improper access. IBM systems and products are designed to be part of a regulatory compliant, comprehensive security approach, which will necessarily involve additional operational procedures, and may require other systems, products, or services to be most effective.
Important: IBM does not warrant that any systems, products, or services are immune from, or will make your enterprise immune from, the malicious or illegal conduct of any party.
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Prices
If you are an IBM Business Partner -- Distributor for Workstation Software acquiring products from IBM, you may link to Passport Advantage Online for resellers where you can obtain Business Partner pricing information. An IBMid and password are required to access the IBM Passport Advantage website.
For Passport Advantage information and charges, contact your IBM representative. Additional information is also available on the Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express website.
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Hardware announcement countries
The DSI VTL products are available in the United States, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands.
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