Bull StoreWay Catalogue

Bull StoreWay Virtuo NV Series

• The highway to virtualize the backup of mission-critical data

The StoreWay Virtuo family of Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL) reduces the cost and streamlines the administration of data protection throughout the organisation. By consolidating and optimizing existing backup operations, StoreWay Virtuo delivers outstanding levels of performance, reliability and flexibility in both Open and Mainframe backup environments. StoreWay Virtuo solutions integrate seamlessly into existing backup environments, protecting existing backup software investments, and delivering immediate benefits including reduced backup and restore times, improved reliability of backup and restore operations, and Disaster Recovery support.

Outstanding Performance

Flexibility at the service of customer backup policies with different Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions

Optimised Storage Usage

Highly Secured Backup

Close integration with major backup applications

Seamless Integration with support of multiple backup environments (Open and Mainframe)


TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Emulated Hardware
º Open / GCOS7 / GCOS8	Open/Gcos7: Oracle (Sun StorageTek) tape drives and libraries 9840, L180 and L700; GCOS8: Oracle (Sun StorageTek) tape drive 9840
º MVS/zOS	IBM Tape drives 3480, 3490 and 3590
Cache disk size (min/max)
º Virtuo NV P810	1.2 TB
º Virtuo NV P820	672 TB
º Virtuo NV P840	1 PB
Max. number of Virtual Libraries
º Virtuo NV P810	2
º Virtuo NV P820	4
º Virtuo NV P840	16
Max. number of Virtual Tape Drives
º Virtuo NV P810	10
º Virtuo NV P820	64
º Virtuo NV P840	384
Host Connectivity Open/GCOS
º Virtuo NV P810	1 FC (8 Gb or 4 Gb)
º Virtuo NV P820	1 - 2 FC (8 Gb or 4 Gb)
º Virtuo NV P840	2 - 5 FC (8 Gb or 4 Gb)
Host Connectivity MVS/zOS
º Virtuo NV P810	No
º Virtuo NV P820	Input: 1 - 50 ESCON, 1 - 4 FICON; output: 4 FC
º Virtuo NV P840	Input: 1 - 50 ESCON, 1 - 4 FICON; output: 4 FC
CPU / Cache Memory
º Virtuo47xx	, , ,
º Virtuo NV P810	1 processor of 4 cores, 3 GHz/ 8 GB memory
º Virtuo NV P820	1 processor of 4 cores, 3 GHz/ 8 GB memory
º Virtuo NV P840	1 - 2 processors, 4 cores per processor, 3.3 GHz/ 16 - 32 GB memory
Physical Libraries supported
º Virtuo NV P810	Yes: Overland NEO 4000E and Refurbished STK L180/L700
º Virtuo NV P820	Yes: most of physical tape librairies of the market (compatibility matrix)
º Virtuo NV P840	Yes: most of physical tape librairies of the market (compatibility matrix)
Physical Tape Drives supported
º Virtuo NV P810	LTO, STK 9840B/C/D
º Virtuo NV P820	LTO, STK 9840B/C/D, STK 9940B
º Virtuo NV P840	LTO, STK 9840B/C/D, STK 9940B
Remote Library Support
º Virtuo NV P810	No
º Virtuo NV P820	Yes
º Virtuo NV P840	Yes

PERFORMANCE
Maximum Troughput
º virtuo NV P810	100 GB/h*
º virtuo NV P820	6.36 TB/h*
º virtuo NV P840	23 TB/h*

CONNECTIVITY
Supported host platforms	Bull GCOS7, GCOS8, IBM MVS- z/OS , AIX, Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Unisys
Back-up Software interfaces
º Open	Bull StoreWay Calypso, Bull OpenSave, CommVault Galaxy, CommVault Simpana, IBM iTSM, Symantec (Veritas) NetBackup; EMC² (Legato) NetWorker, HP DataProtector, SUN (StorageTek) ACSLS, Atempo Time Navigator
º Proprietary	Bull OpenSave (GCOS7), TMS (GCOS8), IBM MVS- z/OS: DFSMSrmm, DFSMSdfp, DFSMShsm, CA1, CA-TLMS, CTL-T, Zara

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Single module rackmount (HxWxD)	19U (103.5x60x111.5 cm) or 42U (202x60x120 cm)

WARRANTY
Standard warranty	World Wide; 1-year Hardware Support, 9x5, Next Business Day, on-site
Warranty extension	Bull’s Global Care offer: Silver and Gold levels; depends on location

NOTES
Note 1	*: w/ data reduction when data is not compressed in input