Draft Document for Review February 7, 2020 4:43 pm 8464pref.fm Summary of contents This book contains valuable information about the IBM TS7700 for anyone who is interested  in this product. The following summary helps you understand the structure of this book, and to  decide which of the chapters are of the most interest. In addition to the material in this book, other IBM publications are available to help you better  understand the IBM TS7700.  If you have limited knowledge of the IBM TS7700, see the documentation for TS7700:  http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STFS69/welcome A series of technical documents and white papers that describe many aspects of the IBM  TS7700 are available. Although the basics of the product are described in this book, more  detailed descriptions are provided in these documents. For that reason, most of these  detailed record descriptions are not in this book, although you are directed to the appropriate  technical document. For these more technical documents, go to the IBM Techdocs Technical  Sales Library website and search for  TS7700 : http://www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/Web/TechDocs Familiarize yourself with the contents of Chapter 1, “Intro ducing the IBM TS7700” on page 3,  Chapter 2, “Architecture, components, and functional characteristics” on page 13, and  Chapter 3, “IBM TS7700 usage considerations” on page 109. These chapters provide a  functional description of all of the major features of the product, and they are a prerequisite for  understanding the other chapters. If you are planning for the IBM TS7700, see Chapter 4, “Preinstallation planning and sizin g ”  on page 131 for hardware information. Information about planning for Software begins in 4.3,  “Planning for software implementation” on page 168. Chapter 6, “IBM TS7700  implementation” on page 225 describes the implementation and installation tasks to set up an  IBM TS7700. If you have an IBM TS7700 or even an IBM 3494 Virtual Tape Server (VTS) installed, see  Chapter 7, “Hardware configurations and upgrade considerations” on page 245. Chapter 8,  “Migration” on page 297 describes migrating to a TS7700 environment. Chapter 9, “Configuring and operating the IBM TS7700” on page 339 provides information  about the operational aspects of the IBM TS7700. This information includes the layout of the  MI windows to help with daily operational tasks. Chapter 9 “Host console operations” provides  information about commands and procedures that are initiated from the host operating  system. If you have a special interest in the performance and monitoring tasks as part of your  operational responsibilities, see Chapter 11, “Monitoring”  on page 625 and Chapter 12,  “Performance considerations” on page 701. Alth ough these chapters gives a good overview,  more information is available in the technical documents on the Techdocs website. For availability and disaster recovery specialists, and those individuals who are involved in the  planning and operation that is related to availability and disaster recovery, see Chapter 13,  “Copy Export” on page 737 . For more information about disaster recovery, see Chapter 5, “Disaster recovery” on  page 201 and Chapter 14, “Disaster recovery testing” on page 769.  Preface  xix