Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Solution

Business Challenges Resolved
The Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution delivers a significant cost saving alternative to traditional tape library deployments. This is achieved by sweating existing storage assets, as an alternative to the ongoing purchase of tapes drives, libraries, media and their associated maintenance costs. Further this solution is totally scalable, meaning that you obtain the benefits of the VTL, at any stage and to any scale, allowing the gains to be obtained quickly scaling under your guidance.

One customer in the "Energy Sector" achieved $2.8M of hard savings with the VTL solution and this represented 75% of estimated costs!

Operational Challenges Resolved
The VTL is deployed and seen as a standard Tape library, yet provides Improved SLA performance by:

  • Reducing back up windows
  • Meeting recovery time objectives
  • Improving back up and restore reliability
  • Increased flexibility/performance for multiple back up copies
  • Managing capacity growth
  • Responsive approach to individual restore
  • Provision of new approach to DR

Providing to Our Customers

  • More control — Protecting key data with policy-based management of information retention and deletion.
  • Improved IT efficiency — Save hours of staff time and boost user productivity.
  • Reduced costs — Match infrastructure costs with changing information value via efficient, cost-effective tiered storage or lowcost monthly subscription services
  • Reduced business risk — Restore data quickly and accurately with built-in hardware redundancy and RAID protection.

Sumary of cost savings

The diagram above shows how recently the SGI Virtual Tape Library (VTL) provided significant cost savings and helped a customer cut OPEX within their infrastructure

Starting with a 3TB Entry level solution which can scale to over XXTB!
The Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution includes the purchase, installation, configuration, and testing of a complete VTL Solution. The VTL solution is comprised of SGI server, SGI Storage and VTL software. Knowledge transfer and documentation of the VTL solution is provided, including server, storage and VTL administration and a review of all configuration files and deliverables.

Services and Deliverables
Implementation of a single VTL solution, including SGI server, SGI storage and VTL software, includes knowledge transfer and documentation. (Support cost not included).

Diagram of solution

Deliverables may include:

  • Assessment of customer’s VTL requirements
  • Installation of RAID and VTL software
  • Configuration of RAID storage and VTL software
  • Partition storage and configuration of XVM volume
  • Test RAID storage and VTL operation
  • Knowledge transfer of the VTL solution, including basic administration of the VTL solution and a review of all configuration files and deliverables provided as part of this service.
  • Documentation of VTL solution configuration

Pricing and More Information

Please contact your local SGI office, email us, call your account manager, or your local SGI PS representative:

  • United States - Mark Fallentine - +1-435-245-2922
  • Southern Europe - Didier Guilbert - +33 (0) 1 3488 8000
  • Central Europe - Christian Steeb - +49 (0) 894 610 8200
  • Northern Europe - Nick Price - +44 (0) 118 912 7500
  • Eastern Europe & Israel Region - Vladimir Urban - +420 261 12 2960