HP StorageWorks MSL6000 Tape Library

The MSL6000 Tape Libraries will scale to larger configurations by enabling a single library to grow and change with capacity and technology as needs require. Not only will the MSL6000 Tape Library scale within the family, but it can also be scaled with MSL5000 Tape Libraries using a pass-through mechanism, for up to 16 drives and 240 slots. LTO-4 Ultrium 1840, Ultrium 960, and SDLT 600 tape drives are available as upgrades to currently installed MSL5000 and MSL6000 Tape Libraries. The MSL6000 Tape Libraries are easily managed through an intuitive GUI-control panel and integrated remote web management, allowing simple management capabilities from any remote or on-site location.

• HP StorageWorks MSL6000 Tape Libraries are now available with LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 hardware encrypting tape drives for secure high performance backups meeting consortium specifications for LTO-4
  

• Scalable up to 16 drives and 240 slots
• Flexible in terms of choice for tape drive technology and library interface
• Investment protection for performance and capacity needs
• Manageable
• Secure with AES 256-bit embedded encryption support on the LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 tape drives.
• Reliable
• Extensive compatibility testing
• Agility in storage and movement of data

• Multi-unit stacking allows the library to grow with changing storage requirements for up 16 drives and 240 slots using either MSL6000 or MSL5000 Tape Libraries.
• Available with a broad choice of tape technologies including Ultrium 960 and SDLT600; and with either aSCSI LVD/SE or Fibre Channel interface.
• Backups are secure with embedded hardware encryption on the HP LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 Tape Drives. Receive the highest level of encryption capability ensuring data privacy and regulation compliance. Encryption key management support is available with HP StorageWorks Data Protector and other ISV backup applications
• Upgrade to a new drive technology by simply installing a drive upgrade kit into an existing library chassis.
• A controller-based architecture allows direct-attach configurations to easily move to a SAN environment via an interface card upgrade.
• User-friendly GUI control panel and web interface make library management easy from any remote or local location.
• Tape libraries provide consistent backup and automatically change tapes with a robotics rating of two million Mean Swaps Between Failures (MSBF).
• Works with industry-leading servers, operating systems and backup software. (http://www.hp.com/go/ebs)
• For dedicated import/export of data cartridges, each library includes one to two configurable mail slots, along with two to four removable magazines, dependent upon library configuration.

To greatly enhance data privacy, HP StorageWorks MSL6000 Tape Libraries are now available with LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 hardware encrypting tape drives for secure high performance backups meeting consortium specifications for LTO-4. HP Data Protector Software can enable the drive encryption and provide basic key management capabilities. Additional ISV supporting hardware encryption is available on the Hp StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution website at http://www.hp.com/go/ebs. The encryption on LTO-4 media occurs with or without compression, and without speed or capacity penalties. You can read LTO-2 and LTO-3 tapes, and write LTO-3 tapes, but hardware encryption is not supported in these formats.

LTO4 uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with the longest and most secure keys -- 256 bits. AES-256 is implemented within Galois Counter Mode (GCM). This is a method of increasing AES security by efficiently adding Message Authentication Codes to ensure the integrity of the backup data stored on tape. The HP LTO-4 Ultrium1840 Tape Drive is designed to be compliant with the emerging standard for tape drive security (IEEE 1619.1).

HP Factory Express offers configuration, customization, integration and deployment services for HP servers and storage products. Customers can choose how their factory solutions are built, tested, integrated, shipped and deployed. Customization must comply with all relevant product specifications and factory supported configurations.

Factory Express offers service packages for simple configuration, racking, installation, complex configuration and design services as well as individual factory services, such as image loading, asset tagging, and custom packaging. HP products supported through Factory Express include a wide array of servers and storage: HP Integrity, HP ProLiant, HP ProLiant Server Blades, HP BladeSystem, and HP 9000 servers as well as MSA, VA7xxx, EVA, and XP disk arrays, rackable tape libraries and configurable network switches.

Type of service support varies by platform and product family. For more information on Factory Express services for your specific server model or storage device please contact your sales representative or go to: http://www.hp.com/go/factory-express.

Data Rate Matching combines sophisticated buffer management with HP's exclusive variable Adaptive Tape Speed technology, to allow the tape drive to match its transfer rate to the host speed dynamically and continuously across the wide range of transfer rates. This feature ensures that the tape drive continues to stream data regardless of the environment, and brings two big advantages:

• It optimizes backup performance and maximizes overall efficiency allowing the drive to respond immediately to any speed changes from the host
• It minimizes rewinding and repositioning of the tape, significantly reducing physical wear and increasing reliability
• It minimizes the power requirements for the drive by reducing the number of repositions needed

The LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 and LTO-3 Ultrium 960 tape drives features the ability to archive and store data in a non-rewriteable format that meets the most stringent regulatory guidelines. Using a combination of integrated fail-safe features in the drive firmware, cartridge memory, and tape formatting, the tape drives can archive large amounts of data for periods of up to 30 years in a secure, untampered state. Since all LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 and LTO-3 Ultrium 960 tape drives include support for both rewritable and WORM media, IT organizations can now easily integrate a secure, long-term archiving solution into their current data protection strategy. As compared to other technologies that feature support for WORM storage, the tape drives offer the advantages of:

• A single drive to support all backup and archiving needs
• Two distinctive tape cartridges to easily distinguish and manage both rewriteable and WORM data cartridges
• A specially designed WORM data cartridge with multiple integrated fail-safe features to prevent accidental or intentional overwriting of data
• High-capacity, low-cost HP WORM media that can store 1.6TB (2:1 compression) of data on a single data cartridge
• Support from many backup and archiving software vendors, providing the most comprehensive and mainstream support in the industry
• The LTO open standard that offers greater choice and compatibility across all third-generation Ultrium products

NOTE: While all HP LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 and LTO-3 Ultrium 960 tape drives support LTO Ultrium WORM media, some third- and fourth-generation LTO Ultrium tape drives from other manufacturers may not include read and write support for LTO Ultrium WORM media. For non-HP third- and fourth-generation LTO Ultrium tape drives, please check the manufacturers' specifications to ensure this support is provided if you are using your WORM media. If WORM support is not provided, the drive will eject the WORM tape cartridge immediately upon insertion into to the tape drive.

DLT (digital linear tape) uses a proven linear recording technology, a highly accurate tape guide system, and a read after write correction system to provide high-capacity, high reliability data backup and restoration. DLT has fast become the industry-standard secondary storage tape format for departmental and enterprise backup. The new generation SDLT drive, provides enhanced capacity and backup performance and includes several new features such as laser guided magnetic recoding (LGMR) technology, pivoting optical servo (POS), magneto-resistive cluster heads (MRC), partial response maximum likelihood (PRML) channel technology and backward-read compatibility with earlier generations of SDLT drives.

WORM technology provides an enhanced level of security against accidental or malicious alteration of data on tape cartridges. WORM can be important when implementing data retention policies to be compliant with regulations regarding the storage of data on non-rewritable, non-erasable media. The SDLT600 tape drive ships with support for WORM and can be set to WORM mode using the backup application. Once the cartridge has been set up for WORM, you will be unable to erase or overwrite the data on it, although you will be able to append data until the cartridge is full. WORM media can be read as often as required. When implementing WORM an unformatted or blank Super DLTtape II 600GB data cartridge is required.

All HP cartridges must satisfy an exhaustive battery of additional tests that relate directly to real life situations, where real data and real businesses are at stake. The benefit of the HP brand specification for media is consistent quality. Through the testing of thousands of HP drives and HP cartridges, the ideal formulation for backup performance is defined and then continuously monitored. This hugely resource-intensive process is unique to HP and affords deep insight into the HP+HP backup solution for a wide range of environments and duty cycles. Your best choice for ease of support and maximum dependability is to use HP-branded Ultrium cartridges at all times.

HP strongly encourages the use of bar code labels on tapes to track media and ensure optimum library performance and usability. Correctly labeling your media will allow the library to quickly determine media and drive compatibility.

The MSL6000 is supported on a wide range of HP systems. For details of which MSL6000 works with which systems, including third-party systems, reference the EBS compatibility matrix at: http://www.hp.com/go/ebs for the latest hardware compatibility information.

Reference the EBS compatibility matrix for the most up-to-date OS compatibility information at: http://www.hp.com/go/ebs.

Reference the EBS compatibility matrix for the most up-to-date software compatibility information at: http://www.hp.com/go/ebs.

The warranty for this product consists of one-year, next business day, onsite.

• Response - Upgrade on-site response from next business day to same day 4-hours
• Coverage - Extend hours of coverage from 5 days x 9 hours to 7 days x 24 hours
• Duration - Select duration of coverage for a minimum period of 1 year to multiple years

HP Care Pack is defined as an upgrade to the product warranty attribute, available for a specific duration and hours of coverage.

• HP Care Pack is not available for less than the products warranty duration.
• HP Care Pack is available for sale anytime during the warranty period for most products, but the commencement date will be the same as the warranty start date (delivery date to end user customer). Proof of purchase may be required.
• HP Care Pack services are prepaid.

For additional HP Care Pack (hardware & software) information, as well as orderable part numbers, please refer to the URL http://www.hp.com/hps/carepack/.

• Installation services
• On-site Maintenance (includes warranty support)
• Response time upgrades during the warranty period
• Post-warranty coverage
• RAID setup and performance consulting via statement of work

HP eSupport is a portfolio of technology-based services that assist you with managing your business environment - from the desktop to the data center.

Support Portal
The HP support portal provides one-stop access to the information, tools and services you need to manage the daily operations of your IT environment.

Features include:

• Access to self-solve tools (including search technical knowledge base)
• Efficient logging and tracking of support cases
• Collaboration with other business and IT professionals
• Download of patches and drivers
• Access to diagnostic tools
• Proactive notification of relevant information

Access to certain features of the support portal requires an HP service agreement. To access the support portal, visit: http://www.hp.com/support.

HP Services provides up to a three-year, limited warranty, fully supported by a worldwide network of resellers and service providers and 9x5 hardware technical phone support during the warranty period. In addition, available service offerings include a full range of optional packaged hardware and software services:

• Installation and start up
• Extended coverage hours and enhanced response times
• System management and performance services
• Availability and recovery services

The following brick level options/components do not have individual HP Care Pack Services. These items will be included in product HP Care Pack Services into which they are installed.

Kit Contents (for each library):

• 12' 110/220 VAC US/Mexico/Canada Power Cord (1 per 5U unit)
• .5M VHDCI SCSI cable (1 per tape drive and 1 per FC card)
• (1) RJ-11 Serial cable
• VHDCI SCSI terminator (1 per tape drive)
• Rack mount hardware including template poster (for use with HP 10000/9000/5000 series racks)
• Documentation kit including Getting Started Poster and User's Guide (CD)

Kit Contents (for each library):

• 12' 110/220 VAC US/Mexico/Canada Power Cord (1 per 5U unit; 2 per 10U unit)
• .5M VHDCI SCSI cable (1 per tape drive and 1 per FC card)
  
• (1) RJ-11 Serial cable
• VHDCI SCSI terminator (1 per tape drive)
• Rack mount hardware including template poster (for use with HP 10000/9000/5000 series racks)
• Documentation kit including Getting Started Poster and User's Guide (CD)

Q2020A

In order to maximize ROI and product uptime, and minimize the cost of ownership, Hewlett-Packard recommends the 3-year, 24 x 7 service options. These offerings will ensure that any product issue can be tackled when they occur (most back up issues will occur outside standard business hours) and that the service coverage regarding period, covers the minimum expected life of the host system.

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