TS7700 Server
The TS7700 hardware component 3957-VED is the same hardware as a 3948-VED.
The TS7700 Server
facilitates data transfer between the host and data storage, and to and from physical tape drives
when the TS7700 connects to
a physical tape library.
- Host connectivity
- Virtualization of tape drives and media, when connected to a physical tape library
- Storage, replication, and organization of data, including organization across tape libraries and physical media when connected to a physical tape library
TS7780 Server (3948-VEF) configuration
The TS7780 is comprised of a server and two I/O drawers.
- X2 P9 G4 11-core up to 3.9 GHz in a G4 sysplanar
- RAM - Min 128 GBs – Max 256 GBs
- Storage - 4 x 6.4TB NVMe
- El Diablo (EJ1T Storage BackplaneGen4 with 2 NVMe U.2 drive slots)
- 6.4TB NVMe
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One system (serial) port with RJ45 connector
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Two Hardware Management Console (HMC) ports
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Four USB ports
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Two or Four 1 Gbps copper Ethernet adapter
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Two quad-port 32 Gbps FCS adapter
Each Expansion Unit I/O adapter drawer offers the following features:
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Eight additional hot-plugged PCIe cartridge Styler slots ( used to house FICON adapters for host attachment, Fibre Channel adapters for the cache enclosure attachment and Fibre Channel adapters).
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Redundant AC power
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Redundant cooling
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Concurrent maintenance of:
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PCIe or PCI-X adapters
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Two power supplies
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Two fans
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TS7700 server (VED) configuration
- Two 10-core 3.8 GHz POWER9 processor cards
- Six 600GB HDDs or 775GB SSD
- 64 GB total memory
- SAS controller with support for RAID 0,1,5,6 and 10
- One system (serial) port with RJ45 connector
- Two Hardware Management Console (HMC) ports
- Extended Error Handling (EEH) and hot plug support on PCI expansion slots.
- Four USB ports:
- Two USB 3.0 ports for general use
- Two USB 2.0 ports for the FSP service processor
- No DVD RAM drive
- Two or four Quad-port 1 Gbps copper ethernet adapter
- Two quad-port 16Gbps FCS adapter
- Eight additional hot-plugged PCIe cartridge styler slots ( used to house FICON adapters for host
attachment, Fibre Channel adapters for the cache enclosure attachment and Fibre Channel adapters).
- PCIe standard achievable using Kleber riser adapters
- PCI-X standard achievable using Oroville riser adapters
- Always redundant AC power
- Always redundant cooling
- Concurrent maintenance of:
- PCIe or PCI-X adapters
- Two power supplies
- Four fans


Slot Number | Adapter |
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C2 | 16 Gb Quad port FC HBA |
C3 | I/O Drawer Interface card |
C4 | 1Gb Quad port or 10Gb dual port Optical |
C6 | 16 Gb Quad port FC HBA |
C7 | 16Gb Quad port Ethernet adapter |
C8 | 1Gb Quad port or 10Gb dual port Optical |
C9 | I/O Drawer Interface card |
C11 | Serial adapter |
C12 |
16Gb Quad port Ethernet adapter |



Slot Number | Adapter |
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C3 | 16 Gb Quad port FC HBA |
C6 | 16 Gb Quad port FC HBA |
3957-VEC configuration
- 2 processor sockets each 3.42 GHz with 10 processor core
- 32 GB of DDR3 CDIMM @ 1600 Mbps
- Additional SAS Solstice-crocodile controller with support for RAID 0,1,5,6 and 10
- 8 SFF 300 GB SAS 15K RPM internal drives using RAID0 (through a split back plane)
- 1 slim line DVD RAM drive
- EEH and hot plug support on PCI adapters
- Disk cache w/ 4 TB HDDs
- TS3500 and TS4500 tape library support
- 16 Gb Fibre Channel switches for back-end tape
- Grid Dual port 1 Gb (copper or optical) Ethernet or dual port 10 Gb Optical Ethernet


Slot Number | Adapter |
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2 | Serial Adapter |
5 | I/O Drawers Interface card |
6 | I/O Drawers Interface card |
10 | PCIe2 LP 4-port 1 Gb Ethernet Adapter |
11 | PCIe2 LP 4-port 1 Gb Ethernet Adapter |

Slot Number | Adapter |
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1 | Grid PCIe Ethernet adapter:
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2 | Not used |
3 | 16 Gb FICON® attachment to host or 8 Gb FICON attachment to host‡ |
4 | Dual port 16 Gb Fibre Channel FCoE: Cache Expansion Frames 1 and 2 |
5 | Dual port 16 Gb Fibre Channel FCoE: Cache and Tape Attach |
6 | 16 Gb FICON attachment to host or 8 Gb FICON attachment to host‡ |
‡When four FICON adapters connect to hosts Notes:
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