HP StoreEver ESL G3 Specification
Meeting enterprise data growth challenges head-on, HP ESL G3 Tape Libraries deliver enormous scalability to keep pace with
unpredictable data growth. Choose from a range of base configurations and scale up to over 12,006 tape cartridges in increments of
100 slots for capacity on demand. Incorporating between 1 and 96 tape drives you can consolidate and store up to 75 PB (compressed
2.5:1) of enterprise data.
Supporting data growth is only part of the story: the HP ESL G3 also delivers high availability through dual-robotics capability and
redundant power supplies, while host path connectivity failover provides optimal library performance. Management and control of
multiple tape libraries is delivered by an intelligent single pane of glass command GUI. Leading library management tools and HP
TapeAssure enables predictive and proactive monitoring of tape drives, media and library health. Hardware data encryption solutions
provide added data security.
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Import/Export station
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control module
What's New
HP ESL G3 High Density Expansion Modules are now available with optional dedicated barcode scanner to reduce inventory
times.
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Standard Features
Scalability
Capacity on demand from 100 to 12,006 tape cartridges and 1 to 96 tape drives
Scale from a choice of base configurations in increments of 100 slots
Bulk import/export station for faster cartridge load and unload
Library frames/expansion modules are in a standard 19-inch rack form factor
High Availability
Dual-robotics for continous access to data
Redundant power supplies
Protect against connectivity failover through Control Path and Data Path failover
3 million MSBF
Manageability
Manage multiple libraries from a single pane of glass using Command View TL
Intuitive web GUI
Receive predictive and proactive status and alerts from TapeAssure, monitoring drives, library and media health for
dependable data storage
Leading library management tools for monitoring, configuration, upgrading, and troubleshooting
Automated Media Pool delivers flexible partitioning to meet data growth requirements without reconfiguring software
applications
Security
Hardware based data encryption through HP's Enterprise Secure Key Manager (ESKM), or by license to SafeNet's KMIP
compliant encryption key manager
Longevity
Ideal for archiving cold or active data with a media shelf-life of up to 30 years
Lowest cost per Gbyte for longer term storage, no on-going power or energy requirement
Portable, high density storage, small footprint with up to 6.35TB of compressed data on a single LTO-6 data cartridge
StoreOpen/LTFS for ease of use and assured interchange
Customer Benefits
Capacity on demand
Only buy what you need today and add storage capacity as you need it
Investment protection - scale up to 75 PBs without disruption to ongoing data protection
More storage capacity in less floor space
Tape consolidation through capacity, performance, partitioning and high availability results in a lower total cost of
ownership.
Continuous data protection
The Libraries' dual-robotics capability means you can have continuous access to your active data; the ESL G3 is the
smallest form factor dual-robotics library available today.
Increased library uptime by providing library LUN control failover and drive port to port failover
High SAN availability since management traffic stays out of the data path
Reduced cost of ownership
Easier to manage multiple libraries from a single pane of glass
Enhanced manageability from any location.
Proactive and predictive library maintenance supported by HP TapeAssure and HP Library and Tape Tools
Delivers best-in-class interoperability with Enterprise Backup Solutions (EBS) without "special" work-a-rounds
Flexible partitioning means that media can be assigned to partitions as data storage needs grow without reconfiguring
software applications
Enhanced data security
Provides a high level of encryption security, with compression, for strong backup data privacy to secure confidential
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information and address compliance quickly. A range of KMIP compliant encryption key management solutions add to
confidence and ease of use.
A Secure Manager option minimizes uncertainty in complex SAN environments by allowing only authorized servers to
access tape drives and critical data.
Supports WORM media (using the LTO-6 Ultrium 6650 FC, LTO-5 Ultrium 3280 FC, or LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 FC)
Providing a fail-safe method for permanently storing data records.
Family Comparison
ESL G3
Scalability
Scales horizontally with linear robot from 1 to 16 frames, 1-96 drives, and
100 to 12,006 slots.
Drive Technology
LTO-6 Ultrium 6650 FC , LTO-5 Ultrium 3280 FC, LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 FC
Capacity range
100 slots in a single frame/module
12,006 slots in a max configuration of 16 frames/modules
Maximum Drive Count
1-12 in a single frame/module
96 in maximum configuration
Maximum Capacity
(compressed 2:1)
626TB using LTO-6 media (min100 slots in1 frame)
75 PB using LTO-6 media (max 12,006 slots in16 frames)
Maximum Throughput
(compression 2:1)
17TB/hr (12 - LTO-6 drives)
138TB/hr (96 - LTO-6 drives)
12TB/hr (12 - LTO-5 drives)
96 TB/hr (96 - LTO-5 drives)
Management
HP Command View TL and library touch screen control panel
Advanced Reporting
TapeAssure & TapeAssure Advanced
Standard Form-factor
Yes: each frame (control or expansion modules) is in standard 19-inch rack
form factor
Dual robotics
Supported
Data & library security
Data encryption and a range of encryption key management solutions
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Scalability to meet
uncertain data growth
Buy only what you need today for backup and archive, and then expand the library for higher capacity and
performance as your data grows.
The HP ESL G3 Tape Library provides a modular architecture in a standard 19" rack form factor to scale up
over 50x from the initial capacity without disrupting ongoing performance and delivery; it is scalable from
100 to over 12,006 slots or from 80TBs to 75 PB in increments of 100 slots.
The library configuration can accommodate:
1 control module
0 to 15 expansion modules or high density expansion modules.
100 to 12,006 possible cartridges slots maximum
1 to 96 LTO-6, LTO-5 or LTO-4 Ultrium Tape Drives
The HP StoreEver ESL G3 Tape Libraries offer two different expansion modules to best suit your data
protection and/or archiving needs.
Expansion Module Options
Slots
Drives
ESL G3 Expansion Module
Each expansion module has 456
storage slots
1-12 tape drives can be installed
into an Expansion
*Available storage slots will
reduce as drives are added
ESL G3 High-Density Expansion
Module
Each HD-EM provides a slot only
upgrade. Each HD-EM has 780
storage slots
No tape drives can be installed into
a High-Density Expansion Module
NOTE:
Adding extra drives often reduces the total slot count unless Expansion Modules and/or Capacity
Upgrade Licenses are added. The ESL G3 is designed for easy scalability to meet a variety of needs, and
your HP sales representative can provide additional details.
High Availability with HP
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Failover
To make the most of your library performance, the HP ESL G3 includes a number of other failover features:
Both library LUN control failover and drive port to port failover help support ongoing host and SAN
connectivity under a variety of adverse conditions:
Control Path Failover: reduces host command failures due to SAN issues
Configure a Primary and Failover Drive
Partitioning: Failover for each partition
Data Path Failover: reduces read/write issues due to SAN issues
Full failover on each tape drive, each drive has two FC ports
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Dual Robot for high
availability
To greatly increase HP ESL G3 high availability, active/active dual robots are now available.. All currently
installed HP ESL G3 libraries are upgradeable to accommodate dual robots.
With the purchase of a dual robot kit, a Parking Module will be included and will need to be installed to the
left of the Control Module.
Beginning June 2012, there was a hardware change to both the Control Module and Expansion Module that
is notated with a "HW Revision 2" on the library management console (LMC).
The front panel of the ESL G3 library displays a HW Revision for reference. (If no HW REV is shown,
then by default it is HW Revision 1).
Libraries purchased and installed prior to June 2012 will continue to be supported and will continue
to purchase HW REV 1 expansion modules.
Libraries purchased and installed after June 2012 receive HW REV 2 control modules and expansion
modules.
All drives, licenses and other accessories are supported in both HW REV 1 & HW REV 2 Control
Modules and Expansion Modules.
Dual Robot Kits:
HW Revision 2 libraries should order product number B4J74A. This kit includes the 2nd robot and a
parking module.
HW Revision 1 will need to be converted to HW REV 2 and will need to order product number B4J75A.
(Includes gear rails, cables, and controller-board upgrades for both the Control Module and all
Expansion Modules, to allow a second fail-over robot to be added to ESL G3. Also includes two new
"Hardware Revision 2" robots and a Parking Module) Please reference the table below to ensure the
correct Dual Robot Kit is ordered.
NOTE:
The front panel of the ESL G3 library will display HW Revision for reference. (If no HW REV is shown,
then by default it is HW Revision 1).
ESL G3 HW Revision
Dual Robot Kit to Order
HW Revision 1
B4J75A
(includes gear rails, cables, and controller-board
upgrades for both the Control Module and all
Expansion Modules, to allow a second fail-over robot
to be added to ESL G3. Also includes two new
"Hardware Revision 2" robots and a Parking Module)
HW Revision 2
B4J74A
(Includes: one "Hardware Revision 2" robot and
parking module)
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Advanced manageability
for lower TCO
The HP ESL G3 allows the operator to manage multiple libraries from a single pane of glass control screen,
anytime and anywhere.
The operator control panel provides either a home screen in physical view showing:
Name
IP address
Slots and drives
Simple performance chart
Or an alternate view of one of the partitions showing:
Physical representation of drives and media
Color coded by partitions
Up to 16 partitions
As small as 6 storage slots, 6 I/E slots and 1 tape drive
Note that partitions can be setup with individual security access.
A setup wizard is provided for normal configuration processes, including:
Licenses
Partitioning
Date/time
Network setup
And a Partition Wizard enables the user to create, modify and delete partitions and also to manage the
setup of:
Automated Media Pool (AMP)
Library Control Path
Control Path Failover (CPF)
Data Path Failover (DPF)
Additional Library Management functionality is available through licensing HP Command View TL and other
licensable features. (see details below)
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TapeAssure for
intelligent reporting and
alerts
HP TapeAssure provides comprehensive summaries and detailed information about the status,
performance, utilization, and health of all tape drives and tapes for HP ESL G3 libraries so that you can
proactively manage the health of your backup and archive.
Utilization and performance reporting features allow you to optimize the use of your HP ESL G3 tape
libraries to make informed purchasing decisions if an increase in capacity is needed. With the data provided
by TapeAssure you can:
Modify backup schedules to make best use of the drives and tapes available and evenly distribute
their workload
Predict and prevent failures through early warnings and recommended service actions
Determine if each drive and each tape is experiencing a high (or low) rate of usage
Know when to retire tapes
Find out the compression ratios and read/write throughput actually achieved
TapeAssure health reports and alerts give you peace of mind knowing the condition of the drives, the
tapes and the data on each tape. TapeAssure monitors every backup to ensure the highest standards of
reliability, sends alerts when these standards are not met, and ensures that you can maintain the drives
and tapes used in an archive environment to have the highest integrity.
TapeAssure builds a database of drive and tape history information that you can export as .CSV (commaseparated-value) files and import into HP's TapeAssure Analysis Template (via Excel) to create graphs and
tables that help answer important questions about drive and tape health, performance, and utilization. .
This data can be automatically exported on a schedule or on demand and written to a local or network
drive where analysis scripts can also be run.
TapeAssure real time alerts notify instantly if drive and data quality standards are not being achieved:
In-depth analysis pinpoints if drive, tape or data characteristics fall below HP backup and archiving
standards
View alerts and statistics is real-time in the Command View TL
TapeAssure Advanced
HP StoreEver TapeAssure Advanced Software provides an intuitive, easy to use dashboard, and advanced
analytics for performance, health and utilization of tape drives, libraries and cartridges. TapeAssure
Advanced software is fully integrated into HP StoreEver Command View Tape Library (CV-TL) Software
providing single pane of glass management, multi-library manageability, monitoring, usage, performance
and analytics. HP tape libraries and software solutions offer a simple, easy to use visual dashboard to
quickly identify all aspects of the library and its components.
Key Features:
Simple, easy to use dashboard : Visual representation of the library, drives and cartridges current
state with ability to drill down
Advanced Analytics : Making use of predictive analytics, predict the likelihood of failures,
bottlenecks, load balancing issues in tape infrastructure
Performance advisor: Identify the performance bottlenecks and utilization patterns quickly for
drives and tapes
Resource utilization analysis: Forecast the resource utilization and future bottlenecks, helps to take
the decision on future investments.
Reliable solution that does not invade the data path
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Supports broad list of HP tape libraries, drives and cartridges
Scalable analytics features supporting longer horizon data and entry level to enterprise class tape
libraries with thousands of cartridges
Track and monitor media as it's added to the library.
For more information please visit:
www.hp.com/go/tapeassure
Best in class reliability
As data becomes more and more mission critical, and downtime becomes more costly to the enterprise,
customers are requiring high availability consolidated storage solutions which offer hot-plug components
and redundancies of key operating subsystems (tape drives and power supplies). With redundant power
distribution and power supplies the HP ESL Tape Libraries offer the best in high availability for continuous
operation. HP ESL G3 also offers 3 million MSBF (mean swaps between failure) for both single and multiframe solutions.
Additional reliability features are delivered by the HP LTO Ultrium tape technology with dynamic data rate
matching functionality - see below.
Hardware Data
Encryption for added
security
To greatly enhance data privacy, HP ESL G3 Tape Libraries are now available with LTO-6 Ultrium 6650,
LTO-5 Ultrium 3280, and LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 hardware encrypting tape drives for secure high
performance backups meeting consortium specifications for LTO-6, LTO-5 and LTO-4. HP Data Protector
Software can enable the drive encryption and provide basic key management capabilities. Additional
information regarding ISV's supporting hardware encryption is available on the HP Enterprise Backup
Solution website at: www.hp.com/go/ebs. The encryption on LTO-6, LTO-5 and LTO-4 media occurs with
or without compression, and without speed or capacity penalties.
LTO-6, LTO-5 and LTO-4 uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with the longest and most secure
keys -- 256 bits. AES-256 is implemented within Galois Counter Mode (GCM). This is a method of increasing
AES security by efficiently adding Message Authentication Codes to ensure the integrity of the backup data
stored on tape. The HP LTO-6, LTO-5 and LTO-4 tape drive(s) are designed to be compliant with the
standard for tape drive security (IEEE 1619.1).
Encryption key management support via HP Data Protector Software and other ISV backup applications,
through HP's Enterprise Secure Key Manager (ESKM) appliance or by license to SafeNet's 'KeySecure' - a
KMIP compliant encryption key manager. Licenses to other select 3rd party KMIP compliant encryption key
management solutions will become available in the coming months.
ESKM: HPs Enterprise Secure Key Manager reduces your risk of a costly data breach and reputation
damage while improving regulatory compliance with a secure centralized encryption key management
solution for HP LTO-6, LTO-5 and LTO-4 enterprise tape libraries (EML & ESL). In addition, the ESKM
provides strong auditable security and reliable lifetime key archival. The ESKM and LTO-6/LTO-5/LTO-4
drive encryption in the ESL G3 Tape Library provides a complete and secure privacy solution to protect
customers' confidential data.
For further information on the ESKM please visit:
www.hp.com/go/eskm
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Partitioning with the
Automated Media Pool for
enhanced scalability
A physical library has limitations. A customer may have mixed backup software environments where
sharing the library becomes difficult. To manage this currently, the operator will create partitions (virtual
libraries) and have each application assigned to one or more partitions. These partitions are fixed, and
Applications mapped into one partition can't claim media and storage space from partitions not assigned
to them.
This method can be inflexible and require a good deal of management overhead to reconfigure and
support.
However, with the ESL G3 Automated Media Pool (AMP) a "ghost" partition acts as a flexible media pool
where media can be assigned to or removed from partitions as needs change - all without forcing
application reconfigurations.
Bulk media import/export
for significant time
savings
An extended import/export station creates a logical bulk load/unload capability inside the library for faster
imports and exports. A 72-media slot mailbox provides one of the largest bulk load/unload in the industry
offering the ability to load or unload media without having to take the library offline or stop currentlyrunning backup jobs (as would be required when opening the whole front door).
The library I/E Station configuration can accommodate:
1 to 8 24-slot Import/Export (I/E) stations in the control module and first 7 expansion modules.
OR
1 24-slot I/E in the control module and up to 7 72-slot I/E stations in first 7 expansion modules.
HP LTO Ultrium
Technology
HP LTO (Linear Tape Open) Ultrium Tape Drives use best of breed technology. By taking the best features
from other tape technologies and combining them into a single new technology, Ultrium tape drives are in
a league of their own. Inclusion of innovative features such as Adaptive Tape Speed (ATS) ensure that
Ultrium drives can meet the performance and reliability demands of a library environment. LTO technology
is an open industry standard format; thus data written on HP Ultrium Tape Drives can be interchanged
directly with Ultrium Tape Drives from other vendors.
Data Rate Matching
Data Rate Matching combines sophisticated buffer management with HP's exclusive variable Adaptive
Tape Speed (ATS) technology, to allow the tape drive to match its transfer rate to the host speed
dynamically and continuously across the wide range of transfer rates. This feature ensures that the tape
drive continues to stream data regardless of the environment, and brings two big advantages:
It optimizes backup performance and maximizes overall efficiency allowing the drive to respond
immediately to any speed changes from the host
It minimizes rewinding and repositioning of the tape, significantly reducing physical wear and
increasing reliability
It minimizes the power requirements for the drive by reducing the number of repositions needed
LTO Ultrium Tape Drive
ATS data transfer rate range
(native)
HP LTO-6 Ultrium 6650
54 to 160 MB/s
HP LTO-5 Ultrium 3280
47 to 140 MB/s
HP LTO-4 Ultrium 1840
40 to 120 MB/s
HP LTO-4 Ultrium 1760
35 to 80 MB/s
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