Technical Details for Compaq Enterprise Storage Library ESL9236D

Compaq Enterprise Storage Library ESL9236D ... high-capacity unattended backup and restore for customers who are phasing out single server distributed backup strategies and migrating towards large server pools serviced by network attached storage devices or storage area networks. The consolidation of the worldwide enterprise's data into a single shared storage device requires that these devices provide both high capacity and high performance. With the consolidation of backup data into a single device also comes the increased need for redundancy and high availability. The ESL9326D can provide years of fully automated operation for backup, save and restore, and hierarchical storage management of critical data when coupled with a variety of qualified industry-standard backup application solutions. With 326 slots and up to 16 Compaq 35/70 DLT drives, the ESL9326D offers up to 22.8 TB of data storage (using 2: 1 compression) and native transfer rates up to 288 GB/hr.

The ESL9326D enterprise library is the first basic building block of the Compaq ESL9000 class enterprise DLT library family. With its high availability feature set, the ESL9000 family provides for maximum uptime. Based on PCI backplane architecture, the ESL9000 family also provides a simple upgrade path for future "plug-in" features. The ESL9000 product line comes equipped with pass-through upgrade ability, allowing other ESL9000 products to directly connect to the base ESL9326D library.

Due to the size and weight of the unit, a pre-installation site survey is required.