HP StorageWorks Enterprise Modular Library E-Series User Guide (AH876-96001, September 2007)
1Libraryoverview
The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Modular Library (EML) E-Series Tape Libraries provide per formance,
reliability and investment protection for your data protection needs. With up to 16 HP StorageWorks
Ultrium 1 840 (LTO4) tape drives, the EML E-Series boasts native throughput of over 6.9 TB/hr. Based on
the HP StorageWorks Extended Tape Library Architecture (ETL A), controllers help to ensure that rogue
I/O requests do not interrupt the backup or recovery job in progress. Additionally, the hardware itself is
very reliable, designed for 24x7 environments. Investment protection is achieved through the addition of
expansion modules, the EML E -Series library scales within the library footprint to 16 drives and 442 slots
for maximum performance, or 8 drives and 505 slots for maximum capacity.
The EM L E-Series Tape Libraries contain the following features:
• Scalable capacity from 71 slots to 505 slots
• Scalable performance up to 16 Ultrium tape drives with 442 slots
• Interface controllers protect tape drives from SAN events
• Remote management via Command View for Tape Libraries software or the command line
interface
• Easy to use touch screen graphical user interface
• User configurable load ports with removable magazines
• Certified under the HP StorageWorks Enterprise B ackup Solution (EBS)
• Accepts HP Ultrium 460-FC (LTO2), Ultrium 960-FC (LTO3), or Ultrium 1840-FC (LTO4) tape drives
• Factory and field rack configu rations
• 2,000,000 mean swaps between failure
Availa
ble configurations
You can
order the library in the following configurations.
Table 2
EML c onfigurations
Configu
ration
Illustra-
tion
Height
in “U”
Maximum
slots
available
Config-
urable load
port sl
ots
(in multip les
of 5)
Config-
urable
re-
served slots
Number
of
possible
tape
drives
71e
nl
1 base module
nl
field racked
11115
12
71
0–5 0
1–4
103e
nl
1 base module
nl
factory racked
10964
12 103 0–5 0–9
1–4
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