Intel 170 Servers User Manual

15.13 Parallel Virtual Tapes

NOTE: Virtual tape is reading and writing to the same DASD so the maximum throughput with our
concurrent and parallel measurements is different than our tape drive tests where we were reading from
DASD and writing to tape.

IBM i 6.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - January/April/October 2008

Chapter 15. Save/Restore Performance

257

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

GB/HR

Save

Restore

Operation

Parallel Virtual Tape for Large File

570 16 way 128GB M emory

800 DASD units for Virtual Tape Drives

1 Virtual Tape Device

2 Virtual Tape Devices

3 Virtual Tape Devices

4 Virtual Tape Devices

5 Virtual Tape Devices

100

150

200

250

300