- Simplify storage growth and support tape consolidation for significant ROI
- Quickly and easily add capacity without disruption, the HPE ESL G3 scales from 100 to 5000 tape cartridges, from 1 to 96 LTO-5 or LTO-4 Ultrium Tape drives and 1 to 12 library frames
- Customer configurable import/export slots from 24 to 528 for fast bulk load and unload
- Scale flexibly with each frame in a standard 19-inch rack form factor for more efficient use of floor space
- The HPE ESL G3 has space for up to two power supplies, including one redundant to support library uptime
- To make the most of your library performance, the HPE ESL G3 includes both library LUN control failover and drive port to port failover help support ongoing host and SAN connectivity under a variety of adverse conditions
- Dual robotics capability paves the way for even higher reliability (availability at a future release)
- Designed to support today's enterprise applications with intensive read/write operations, the HPE ESL G3 delivers single frame and multi-frame reliability with 3 million MSBF
- The ESL G3 Library has been designed to ease the management burdens of data protection in your SAN
- TapeAssure makes managing, optimizing and archiving faster and easier
- Simplify managing complex environments with library partitioning
- The ESL G3 Tape Library ensures heterogeneous SAN interoperability and solution support
- FIPS compliant data encryption and Enterprise Secure Key Manager (ESKM) safeguard your data against costly data breach while it's in the tape library, during export and transport, and while data is at rest in an offsite location
- AES 256-bit embedded hardware encryption is provided in HPE LTO-4 and LTO-5 Ultrium Tape drives provides a high level of data security with compression for ease and performance
Meeting enterprise data growth challenges head-on, HPE ESL G3 Tape Library delivers enormous scalability to keep pace with unpredictable data growth. Choose from a range of base configurations and scale up to over 5000 tape cartridges in increments of 100 slots for capacity on demand. Incorporating between 1 and 96 tape you can consolidate and store up to 15 PB of enterprise data.
Supporting data growth is only part of the story. The HPE ESL G3 also delivers high availability through redundant power supplies future dual-robotics capability, 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 HPE TapeAssure enables predictive and proactive monitoring of tape drives, media and library health. Hardware data encryption solutions provide added data security.