## 11.1 Product description 

The IBM TS3310 tape library is a highly modular, vertically scalable library design offering with the following features and support: 

GLYPH<SM590000> A 5-U desktop or rack-mounted base module that provides up to two IBM Ultrium 8, 7, 6, or 5 Full-High tape drives, 35 storage slots, and six I/O slots. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Installation of up to four 9-U expansion modules in each one, which provides up to four IBM Ultrium 8, 7, 6, or 5 Full-High tape drives and 92 storage slots, 12 of which you can optionally configure as I/O slots. 

GLYPH<SM590000> IBM Ultrium 8, 7,6 and 5 dual port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel tape drives, can be mixed in the physical library. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Support of a connection of the library internal Ethernet interface to the Ethernet interface of each drive. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Support for remote management through a web interface. Local management is done through a color touch panel. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Command-line interface support. 

GLYPH<SM590000> IBM patented multi-path architecture with logical library support to share the library between multiple homogeneous or heterogeneous systems or applications. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Supports media partitioning and self-describing tape with IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition (LE) and Linear Tape File System (LTFS) software. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Support for a wide range of systems including IBM Z, IBM Power Systems (p6 and newer), IBM System p (p5 and earlier), pSeries, System x, xSeries, System i, iSeries, Intel, Hewlett-Packard (HP), and Oracle. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Native Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) support. 

GLYPH<SM590000> A bar code reader. 

Optionally, you can install the following features: 

GLYPH<SM590000> Path failover for control paths and data paths 

GLYPH<SM590000> Capacity-on-Demand to non-disruptively provide extra capacity 

GLYPH<SM590000> Transparent LTO encryption 

GLYPH<SM590000> Advanced Reporting 

GLYPH<SM590000> Redundant power supplies for each module 

GLYPH<SM590000> Rack mounting 

A fully expanded TS3310 tape library today occupies 41U of rack space and a potential maximum of 409 storage slots with the following storage: 

GLYPH<SM590000> 4908 TB of storage on Ultrium 8 media at native capacity (12.27 PB at a 2.5:1 compression ratio) 

GLYPH<SM590000> 2454 TB of storage on Ultrium 7 media at native capacity (6.135 PB at a 2.5:1 compression ratio) 

GLYPH<SM590000> 1022.5 TB of storage on Ultrium 6 media at native capacity (2.556 PB at a 2.5:1 compression ratio) 

GLYPH<SM590000> 613.5 TB of storage on Ultrium 5 media at native capacity (1.227 PB at a 2:1 compression ratio) 

All configurations require one TS3310 tape library Model L5B base module. Expansion is provided through the addition of the TS3310 tape library Model E9U expansion modules. 

