HPE MSL3040 LTO-7+ Path Failover License
Secure your critical data with the HPE MSL3040 LTO-7+ Path Failover License, ensuring uninterrupted access and operational continuity for your tape library.
- Access to Redundant Paths: Enables failover capabilities for enhanced data availability and library uptime.
- License Term: Subscription-based licensing provides ongoing access to critical failover features.
- Platform Specific: Directly applies to the HPE MSL3040 tape library, ensuring compatibility.
- Operational Continuity: Protects against single points of failure, maintaining business operations during hardware issues.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a subscription-based software license for the HPE MSL3040 tape library, specifically enabling LTO-7+ path failover functionality. It ensures that your data remains accessible even if a primary path to the tape library experiences an issue, providing a critical layer of redundancy for business continuity.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this license to safeguard their tape backup and archiving operations. It integrates directly with the HPE MSL3040 hardware, fitting into existing data protection strategies and ensuring that critical business data is always recoverable.
- Enhanced Data Availability: Guarantees access to data by automatically switching to a secondary path if the primary fails.
- Subscription Licensing: Provides flexible, ongoing access to essential failover features without large upfront capital expenditure.
- Hardware Integration: Designed to work seamlessly with the HPE MSL3040 tape library for optimal performance.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet regulatory requirements for data retention and availability by minimizing downtime.
- Operational Resilience: Mitigates the risk of data access interruption due to hardware component failure.
This license is essential for SMB and mid-market businesses seeking to fortify their data protection strategy against hardware failures.
What This Enables
Enable Continuous Data Access
Enable teams to maintain uninterrupted access to critical data stored on tape. Streamline disaster recovery processes by ensuring the tape library remains operational during hardware path failures.
organizations with critical data archives, businesses requiring high data availability, teams managing tape backup infrastructure, environments with strict RTO/RPO objectives
Mitigate Hardware Failure Risks
Automate the switch to redundant paths, protecting against single points of failure in tape library connectivity. Protect against operational disruptions and data access delays caused by component issues.
businesses with limited IT staff, companies operating 24/7, environments with aging hardware, IT departments focused on risk reduction
Support Regulatory Compliance
Ensure data availability and retention requirements are met by preventing downtime. Maintain auditable access to archived data by guaranteeing the tape library's operational status.
organizations in regulated industries, businesses with long-term data retention policies, companies undergoing compliance audits, IT teams managing archival storage
Key Features
Path Failover Technology
Automatically switches to a secondary path if the primary path fails, ensuring continuous data access and library operation.
Subscription Licensing
Provides ongoing access to failover features with predictable costs, aligning with operational budgets.
HPE MSL3040 Compatibility
Designed specifically for the HPE MSL3040 tape library, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.
Enhanced Data Protection
Minimizes the risk of data loss or access delays due to hardware failures, supporting business continuity.
Simplified Operations
Reduces the need for manual intervention during hardware issues, freeing up IT staff time.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require continuous access to data for regulatory compliance and operational continuity, making path failover critical for their tape backup and archival systems.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain constant access to patient records and research data, necessitating resilient data protection solutions like path failover for tape libraries.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services need reliable access to case files and client data for extended periods, making tape archival uptime essential for compliance and client service.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on consistent data for operations and compliance, requiring robust backup solutions that prevent downtime and ensure data availability from their tape storage.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is path failover?
Path failover is a feature that allows a device, like a tape library, to automatically switch to a secondary connection or path if the primary connection fails. This ensures that the device remains accessible and operational without interruption.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for the HPE MSL3040 tape library. It enables the path failover functionality on that particular hardware platform.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This is a subscription-based license. It provides ongoing access to the path failover features for the duration of the subscription term.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.