What does VTD stand for?

Virtual Tape Device

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Information technology (IT) and computers

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By removing the direct-attached tape drive dependency for the host, performance is radically improved because tape drive latency is eliminated and the software can present multiple logical or virtual tape devices to the host's backup application.

Tape or disk: why not both?

The EZX/BackBox sends and receives data from the HP NonStop server across a cluster of native SCSI or FC virtual tape devices, while the Luminex Channel Gateway sends and receives data from the IBM mainframe as native ESCON or FICON attached tape drives.

ETI-NET and Luminex Partner to Simplify Mainframe Data Sharing

SN6000 devices can be connected, though arguably few customers actually need to do that--their top-end device already has 16 interfaces, each of which can be configured to present 16 virtual tape devices.

Tape Virtualization At StorageTek