{"id":7915,"date":"2021-10-31T20:24:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/?p=7915"},"modified":"2021-10-31T20:24:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:24:54","slug":"what-is-a-virtual-tape-library-vtl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/what-is-a-virtual-tape-library-vtl\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a virtual tape library (VTL)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A virtual tape library (VTL) is a\u00a0storage\u00a0system consisting of hard disk drives (HDDs) that looks and acts like a physical\u00a0tape\u00a0library.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/onlineImages\/wilson_sarah.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Wilson\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/contributor\/Sarah-Wilson\">Sarah Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VTLs are typically used for\u00a0backup\u00a0and\u00a0data archiving\u00a0purposes. The\u00a0array\u00a0of disks is presented to the backup software as tape.\u00a0Data\u00a0is written sequentially, just as it would be as if it were being written to rotating tape, but can be written and read more quickly because disk is the underlying media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to providing faster backup and\u00a0recovery\u00a0times, VTLs are\u00a0scalable, can reduce operating costs and are compatible with other storage features such as\u00a0deduplication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both virtual <a href=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/data-center-infrastructure\/tape-backup-and-recovery\">tape libraries<\/a> and disk-to-disk backups are frequently packaged together with data deduplication. The difference between the two disk-based backup technologies is that while a VTL has additional technologies in it to emulate the physical actions of tape, a disk-to-disk backup platform acts as a<a href=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/network-attached-storage-nas-definition-uses-examples-and-its-future\/\"> network-attached storage (NAS)<\/a> device that can be mounted with a storage of backups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both will typically attach to a backup media server, <a href=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/cisco-mcs-7825-h2-ipc2-media-convergence-server-mcs-7800-3-4ghz\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/cisco-mcs-7825-h2-ipc2-media-convergence-server-mcs-7800-3-4ghz\">an example here<\/a>,  and be managed by that media server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A virtual tape library (VTL) is a\u00a0storage\u00a0system consisting of hard disk drives (HDDs) that looks and acts like a physical\u00a0tape\u00a0library.\u00a0 By Sarah Wilson VTLs are typically used for\u00a0backup\u00a0and\u00a0data archiving\u00a0purposes. The\u00a0array\u00a0of disks is presented to the backup software as tape.\u00a0Data\u00a0is written sequentially, just as it would be as if it were being written to rotating tape, but can be written and<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/what-is-a-virtual-tape-library-vtl\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,320,20,81,265,9,224,238,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup-and-archival-tools","category-dell-datacenter-hardware","category-simple-definitions-to-know","category-tape-backup-and-tape-libraries","category-tech-definition-updates","category-tech-definitions","category-technical-explanations","category-timeless-articles","category-trends-datacenter-hardware-and-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7916,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions\/7916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}