DLm Replacement with Luminex CGX
Replacing DLm VTEs with more power and fewer risks without any effort
Change Dell’s virtual tape engine to Luminex CGX in a seamless and uninterrupted
manner for better features through a future–ready solution
Luminex Channel Gateway X or CGX adds benefits like:
- Providing the same virtual tape ranges and formats to the mainframe, often without host reconfiguration
- Exhibiting advanced capabilities such as ransomware protection, multi-site replication, hostless migration, and cloud archive support
Host Migration Unnecessary with Only CGX Controller Swap-in
- Directly reads DLm written tapes
- Reads and writes to existing storage from the start
- Background conversion to CGX is completely automated
Fully Compatible with Existing Dell Storage Requiring Zero Change
- Equivalent footprint and enviromentals
- Extended value of existing storage assets
- Existing storage capabilities preserved
- Existing data protection and cyber resiliency maintained
- Full use of existing data reduction technologies
Rapidly scale from terabytes to petabytes with multiple mainframes at multiple sites.
Storage can be bundled with our solution, or use your own from your favorite FC or NAS storage vendor.
