IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Best Practices - Understanding, Monitoring and Tuning the TS7700 Performance Version 1.3

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. Tape Virtualization subsystems have become an essential part of most mainframe customer's operations. Massive amounts of key customer data are placed under the control of the subsystem. The IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine, with its virtual tape drives, disk cache and integrated hierarchical storage management, is designed to perform its tasks with no customer involvement once it has been configured.