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Storage

ICC’s Enterprise Data Storage Service provides mainframe users with a large pool of emulated 3390 disk drives. All drives are RAID-1 (mirrored) and are connected to the z/Series processor by ESCON fibre channels. Each ESCON channel provides a maximum of 17MB/sec of throughput.

Benefits
  • Daily incremental backups
  • Weekly full volume backups
  • Off-site full volume backups
  • Hierarchical Storage Management system    
Details

Charges may be on a by-usage basis for shared disks or by disk volume where a disk is dedicated to an organization.

Normally, disks are configured as 3390-Model 3, but for performance or other business reasons, 3390 Model-1, Model-2, Model-9 and Model-27 disks are also made available.

Service Options

Storage Management Option (SMO) – provides a variety of disk management services:
  • Disk defragmentation
  • Dataset reorganization
  • Dataset space release
  • Merging of dataset extents
  • Deletion of selected datasets