Technical Brief – Robotic Zoning in a TFinity Exascale Tape Library

While customers have been purchasing the Spectra® TFinity® ExaScale Tape Library since its inception with dual robotics, the system had not been fully optimized for performance with HPC Software platforms. By adding robotic zoning and some pre-planning on drive and tape locations, both robots can be used simultaneously during production activities while still providing the full redundancy of dual robotics as each gets to every tape and drive location.