Overview

Mirage ML500 Virtual Tape Drive Mirage ML500 Virtual Tape Drive (VTD) is a hardware virtual tape emulation of an LTO-2 autoloader with up to a 500GB disk drive. The disk can be partitioned into multiple virtual tape volumes sized to the capacity of the physical archive tape. Mirage ML500 transfers data from the virtual volume on disk to the physical archive tape with no host intervention, for off-site disaster recovery. The on-site backup on virtual volume provides virtually instantaneous random access single file restores. Hardware VT implementation requires no continuing maintenance and provides superior OS and application software compatibility. Typical install is less than 30 minutes and requires minimum procedure changes and operator training. Backup times exceeding the Mirage ML500 specification indicate a performance limitation in other areas. Backs up data at 150GB/hour Archive tape is compatible with directly attached compatible