Quantum Scalar i500 Series Overview
The Quantum i500 is the intelligent library platform that gives growing midrange storage environments faster, easier, and more reliable data protection. The Scalar i500 combines modular design with continuous robotics to provide industry-leading scalability, performance, and reliability.
- iPlatform architecture and iLayer management approach integrates intelligent management into the library
- Proactive monitoring and remote diagnostics can reduce service calls 50% and shorten resolution time by 30%
- Combines flexible, modular architecture with a single, continuous robotics system for enhanced scalability, performance, and reliability
- Streamlined expansion and capacity-on-demand growth lets library easily expand with data
- Native SMI-S support allows direct management by leading SRM tools, including EMC® ControlCenter™
- Designed to integrate easily with leading disk backup solutions
Quantum Scalar i500 Product Details
Designed with Quantum's iPlatform architecture and iLayer management approach, the Scalar i500 makes backup easier to manage. Its proactive monitoring and remote diagnostics can reduce service calls by 50% and shorten issue resolution times by 30%. Its capacity-on-demand scalability lets it grow non-disruptively with users' data. And the Scalar i500 is designed to integrate easily with disk backup making it the perfect library for next-generation backup architectures. With the Scalar i500, IT managers can be assured they will have reliable, high-performance backup, certain restores, and effective long term protection for years into the future, no matter how their storage needs evolve.
The Quantum Scalar i500 management features were designed with midrange backup needs in mind. Its user-friendly setup wizards make it simple to install. Its partitioning, remote monitoring, and automated diagnostics make it easy to operate and maintain. And its native support for Storage Resource Management (SRM) tools using the SMI-S interface standard means users can include Scalar i500 libraries, even those in remote locations, within their managed storage environments along with their disk and fabric resources.
The Scalar i500 offers industry-leading RAS features designed to meet the availability requirements of the most demanding midrange data centers. Hot swap drives are standard on all models. A full 2N power option protects the library and all drives from any single point of failure in the power system. The library's capacity-on-demand scalability provides non-disruptive growth, its flexible design makes it easy for users to add new modules, and its single, continuous robotics system provides fast, reliable cartridge transfer under the widest possible range of conditions.
The Scalar i500 combines modular scalability with single-robotics simplicity, reliability and performance.
StorageCare Vision- Monitoring and Management Solution
Monitor and manage your entire data protection environment from a single window
It can happen at anytime. Your backup fails, and you’re not sure why. Is the problem your SAN switch? Your fibre channel link? Your host system or backup application? Your library or disk system? Until now, diagnosis required multiple tools and interfaces and time-consuming root-cause analysis. No longer. Now there’s StorageCare Vision.
With StorageCare Vision® from Quantum, you can monitor and manage your entire data protection environment from a single window – giving you complete visibility into all the layers of your backup infrastructure. The result is faster answers, faster resolution, and increased confidence in your backups.
Quantum Scalar i500 Services and Support
The Quantum i500 comes with a one-year warranty enhanced with service options. It is supported by Quantum’s StorageCare™ service approach that extends remote diagnostics to the storage ecosystem.
| Media slots | Tape drives |
Native Capacity TB |
| 36 slots LTO-4 | 1 to 18 depending on configuration |
28.8 |
| 36 slots LTO-3 | 14.4 |
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| 402 slots LTO-4 | 321.6 |
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| 402 slots LTO-3 | 160.8 |
Specifications
Operation
Drive Interface: SCSI-2/SCSI-3 LVD; integrated FC interface option
Library Interface: SCSI-2/SCSI-3 LVD; SAS; integrated FC interface option
Inventory Speed: 128 slots in less than 20 seconds
Configuration: Auto-discovery and auto-calibration for installed/added components (modules, tapes, drives, magazines, etc.)
Import/Export: Up to 54 (LTO) positions in removable magazines
Environmental
Electrical: 100-240 VAC, 50-60Hz
Temperature: 10 to 40° C operating
Humidity: 20 to 80% non-condensing operating
Reliability
Library MCBF: Greater than 2,000,000
Library MTTR: 30 minutes
Power: Optional 2N power for all systems and drives
Diagnostics: Embedded monitoring of all major subsystems, self-diagnostic procedures, and policy-based email and pager alerts to system administrators and Quantum Global Services
Module Upgrade: Any storage module may be added in 30 minutes; customer-installable components include drives, fans, power supplies, and slot upgrades
Physical
| System | HxWxD | Weight |
| 5U Base System | 8.6” x 17.4” x 31.4” (21.9cm x 44.2cm x 79.8cm) |
66 lbs (30 Kgs) |
| 14U Base System | 24.4” x 17.4” x 31.4” (61.9cm x 44.2cm x 79.8cm) |
125 lbs (56.8 Kgs) |
| 23U Base System | 40.1” x 17.4” x 31.4” (101.9cm x 44.2cm x 79.8cm) |
184 lbs (83.6 Kgs) |
| 9U Expansion Module | 15.8” x 17.4” x 31.4” (40cm x 44.2cm x 79.8cm) |
59 lbs (26.8 Kgs) |
| Drive | 8.9" x 13" x 16.4" (22.6cm x 33cm x 41.7cm) |
10 lbs (4.6 Kgs) |
| Power Supply | 8.9" x 13" x 16.4" (22.6cm x 33cm x 41.7cm) |
5 lbs (2.3 Kgs) |
Compliance and Certification
Safety: IEC 60950 with worldwide country deviations
Emissions Standards: CISPR 22 Class A, EN55022 Class A, EN61000-3-2, EN61000-3-3
Immunity Standards: EN55024
International Certifications: CE ( Europe ), VCCI ( Japan ), TUV/GS ( Germany ), FCC ( USA ), ICES ( Canada ), cTUVus ( USA & Canada ), GOST ( Russia )
