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Luminex/Sun Mainframe Virtual Tape Solutions
SUN-based server platforms with Luminex Channel Gateway Software:
Luminex’s Channel Gateway software, installed directly on any of the Sun Servers, delivers a solid and high performance mainframe virtual tape storage solution. The solution provides outstanding batch processing and data storage in an exceptional price/performance package. With the Channel Gateway software, the Sun server is seen as a bank of 3490 or 3590 tape devices. And with the available Sun data storage software, “No single point of failure”, Clustered and HSM configurations are fully supported.
The Sun – Luminex Mainframe Virtual Tape solution combines all of the best of Sun’s server and storage technologies to deliver unprecedented performance, reliability and product values.
Sun X4500 Data Sheet
Channel Gateway Data Sheet
Sun Hardware Platforms:
Standard Software Configurations |
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Solaris 10: The Sun Solaris operating system is supported on over 900 x86 and SPARC platforms and delivers the performance, stability and security enterprise users and customers demand. |
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| MainFrame Host Connectivity |
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FICON via Luminex FICON driver coupled with Emulex FC HBAs |
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PCI-X, Full and Low profile |
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PCI-Express |
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Single or dual port |
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2, 4, 8 GB/Sec port performance |
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ESCON via Luminex ESCON driver and HBAs |
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PCIX, Full and Low profile |
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PCI-Express |
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Single or multi-port |
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File Systems and Storage Connectivity |
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ZFS: The Sun Solaris ZFS offers advanced data management, data integrity, performance improvements and integration of file system and volume management capabilities. |
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NAS: Connectivity to NAS appliances such as Data Domain |
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FC/SAN: Connectivity to SAN and RAID devices as well as VTLs. |
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UFS |
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SCSI |
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iSCSI |
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Sun Availability and Enterprise Storage Software: |
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QFS: Sun QFS is a high performance, highly available clustering solution that enables companies to consolidate, share and protect enterprise-wide storage. |
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| SAM-FS: Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager (SAM) software provides data classification, |
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centralized meta-data management, policy-based data placement, protection, migration, long-term retention, and recovery to help organizations effectively manage and utilize data according to business requirements. |
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| Sun AVS: Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software for business continuity and disaster recovery |
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features point-in-time copy capability as well as remote mirroring capability. |
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| Sun Cluster:The Sun Solaris Cluster software is a framework that extends the high availability |
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features of Solaris. |
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Customer Configurations Using the Sun – Luminex Solution:
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| State Court Administration |
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Applications: Batch Processing |
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Backup & Recovery |
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Data Sharing |
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Sun Software Utilized: Solaris 10, ZFS
Use Summary: The State Court Administration installed virtual tape solution using Luminex’s Channel Gateway software in Sun’s Fire X4500 Data Server. The solution stores up to 17 TBs of ZFS-managed mainframe tape data with dual parity RAID. The solution also allows the customer to backup its data to its existing LTO tape library with the TSM Client software installed on the Sun Fire X4500. Luminex’s Channel Gateway provides the customer additional functionality by allowing it to import native mainframe tapes to the disk-based virtual storage and to create native physical mainframe tapes from the virtual tape storage.
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| Transportation Company |
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Application: Batch Processing |
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Sun Software Utilized: Solaris 10
Use Summary: A nationwide public transportation company installed Luminex’s and Sun’s disk-based virtual tape solution utilizing external fibre channel disk for batch processing operations. The solution features two Sun T2000 servers each with Luminex Channel Gateway software and FICON channels. Storage was provided using Sun’s 6140 Storage Arrays.
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| Transportation Company |
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Application: Backup & Disaster Recovery |
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Sun Software Utilized: Solaris 10
Use Summary: The nationwide public transportation company as above used Luminex and Sun for their back-up and disaster recovery solution. Utilizing an additional fully mirrored Sun T2000 server with Luminex Channel Gateway software with FICON channel connectivity at their remote DR site, they connected over a WAN to their primary site utilizing Sun’s remote data replication tools for efficient and reliable backup and recovery.
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| Global Chemical Company |
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Applications: Batch Processing |
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Backup |
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Sun Software Utilized: Solaris 10, QFS
Use Summary: The Global Chemical Company installed Luminex’s Channel Gateway software consisting of four ESCON channels running across two clustered Sun V240 servers with Sun QFS Software directly connected to the customer’s existing EMC Symmetrix storage system for a No Single Point of Failure environment. The solution provided a highly reliable, clustered, disk-based virtual tape system with external storage.
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| Direct Marketing Company |
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Application: Batch Processing |
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Sun Software Utilized: Solaris 10, ZFS
Use Summary: Luminex and Sun implemented a virtual tape storage system for a national direct marketing company consisting of Luminex’s Channel Gateway software and the Sun Fire X4500 Data Server for greatly improved batch processing operations. The Sun Fire X4500 provides up to 24 TBs of raw internal storage capacity.
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