Sun Microsystems 96257 manual About This Guide, Product Overview, Intended Audience

About This Guide

About This Guide

■Product Overview

The Sun StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager® (VSM®) is a disk-based virtual tape sys- tem that provides enterprise-class storage management capabilities for MVS-based sys- tems. Its scalable design, which includes Virtual Tape Control System (VTCS) host soft- ware and an intelligent Virtual Tape Storage Subsystem (VTSS) disk buffer, optimizes streaming workloads and backup and recovery functions, reduces management over- head, and maximizes tape capacity utilization to reduce data protection costs in a wide range of storage environments.

■Intended Audience

This document is intended for use by Sun Microsystems personnel and other qualified ser- vice providers (QSPs)1 involved with site planning, installation, configuration, testing, cer- tification, servicing, and technical support of VSM5 system equipment.

Users of this document should have a working knowledge of the following concepts and technologies: virtualization; Ethernet; FICON, fibre channel, and network topologies; tape storage (tape drives and tape libraries); and disk storage.

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