Storage hardware applications provider EMC has introduced a new high-end mainframe virtual tape library, DLm8000, for large enterprise mainframe environments.
EMC DLm8000 ensures consistency between tape data at both production and recovery sites, providing the short Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) for critical recovery operations.
The DLm8000 with VMAX provides enhanced performance and availability for both disk storage and tape data. They will also enable mainframe customers with consistent and automated DR for both disk and tape data.
DLm8000 supports both EMC VMAX enterprise storage and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) replication. It also helps mainframe users have control over their tape processes and meet their recovery SLAs.
VMAX is offered in the EMC Disk Library for the first time which is a storage platform that is optimised mission critical mainframe environments where customers require performance in addition to securing and protecting their information.
EMC SRDF is the "gold standard" for remote replication, providing the maximum levels of availability in DR situations.
DLm8000 delivers a throughput of up to 2.7 GB/s and 2.5x the performance of its nearest competitor. It also allocates up to 2,048 emulated drives to different processes, even temporarily, to improve overall system processing capabilities.
In addition, the new product also provides continuous replication to the DR site, making data available to provide rapid RTOs and more flexible RPOs.
It also delivers reliability levels that meet the mission critical needs of large mainframe environments, while enabling enhanced data recovery processes.
EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division Marketing vice president Shane Jackson said the ability to replicate tape data synchronously has been in high demand from large enterprise mainframe users, but thus far they have been forced to accept sub-optimal recovery options in an effort to approach their desired SLAs.
"With the introduction of the DLm8000, EMC becomes the first to solve this problem for our customers. They can now confidently deploy synchronous replication and industry-leading VMAX storage systems integrated into a single solution," Jackson said.
"The DLm8000 enables these users to consistently achieve their recovery objectives and remove physical tape and its associated problems from their mainframe environments."
