OverviewEdit online The following topics provide overview information that is related to your IBM® TS7700 Series (TS7700). Concepts of storage virtualizationVirtualization permits the full utilization of modern tape technology's underlying storage capacity and decreases the virtual volume access time of data storage and retrieval. TS7700 product introductionThe TS7700 is a member of the TS line of products and builds upon previous implementations of tape storage virtualization.TS7700 system configurationsTS7700 system componentsThe TS7700 consists of several primary components that can be described in terms of their system role or according to their technical functions.Data storage valuesTS7700 documentation displays data storage values by using both decimal (base-10) prefixes and binary (base-2) units of measurement.