QC Infotech provides specialized LTO Tape Drive Migration Services to help organizations transition to next-generation tape libraries while maximizing reuse of existing tape drive assets. Unlike traditional migrations that focus only on data movement, QC Infotech manages the physical migration, integration, and validation of existing LTO tape drives into modern platforms such as the Spectra® Stack Tape Library.
As an authorized Spectra Logic partner, QC Infotech enables customers to migrate LTO drives originally deployed in non-Spectra libraries to modern Spectra libraries —delivering faster migrations, lower costs, and minimal operational disruption.
The ability to re-purpose your existing tape drives offers tremendous investment protection for users, and as will be shown below, offers greater versatility and ease in migration.
Straight Move Migration – Direct relocation of compatible LTO drives from an existing tape library into Spectra Stack—no hardware modification required..
Sled Move Migration – ARe-mounting existing LTO drives into Spectra-certified sleds to ensure full compatibility with Spectra Stack automation.
Overview – A “soft migration” refers to moving existing LTO media and drives directly from an existing library into a Spectra Stack library. The existing data movement application or data manager will be directed to the new library, an inventory will be conducted and media sets will be available for restoration if needed.
If differing versions of LTO technology are not being mixed in the same library, partitions may be used for separating data on a departmental basis, operating system or application basis according to need. Migration would be complete
Here we see process by which existing LTO drives and LTO media are moved from existing tape library to a new spectra stack liabrary which allows for immediate decommissioning of the older tape library
Hard migration refers to restoring data from existing backup or archive tapes and then directing the data to the new tape library and tape media. Hard migration is most commonly used when an existing data mover application (backup, HSM or archive software) which writes in a proprietary format is being replaced as well. One might also refer to this as a “traditional” migration.
By moving older tape drives into the new Spectra Stack library, hard migration can occur in the background as time and resources allow without the need to maintain an additional library.
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