Sun Unified Storage

WHY ORACLE?

INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP

Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line delivers leadership value for organizations using unified storage to implement cloud computing, virtualization, fixed-content serving, data-protection and storage-consolidation environments. The product line enables the rapid deployment of new revenue-producing applications and lowers expenses by reducing storage complexity and its associated administrative costs.

Benefits:

Simplified storage administration with the industry’s most comprehensive and intuitive storage analytics and browser-based management
Improved data center efficiency and lower costs with industry-leading unified storage density
Simplified storage deployments with file and block I/O consolidated onto a single high-capacity, high-performance storage appliance
A rich suite of integrated data services and storage management software
Improved data protection with industry-leading error detection and self-healing technologies that reduce the risk of data loss and system downtime

The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line combines industry-leading performance, density, and storage analytics with an innovative storage architecture and unparalleled ease of deployment and use.

#1 unified storage management environment: one-third easier to manage than competitive solutions
#1 storage analytics environment: Most powerful, intuitive, visual solution
#1 use of DRAM and Flash caches to accelerate data access: Transparent access to up to 6.7TB of fast-access media in Hybrid Storage Pools
#1 efficiency for primary storage: Only solution with both inline deduplication and inline compression
Most powerful unified storage controllers: Enables concurrent utilization of multiple data services
Industry’s best TCO with up to one-third less CAPEX and OPEX

SUN ZFS STORAGE APPLIANCE PRODUCTS

Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Software

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SUN ZFS STORAGE APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS

ONLY ORACLE OFFERS SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS

Capability	Benefit	Result
Industry-leading performance	Accelerates business performance, speeding time to market	Increased productivity and competitiveness
Rich set of data services and network protocol support	Provides a single-vendor solution	One solution with low integration and management costs
Hybrid storage pools	Automates the use of enterprise Flash technology with high-capacity disk drives for optimum storage performance and efficiency	Combining high-performance Flash SSDs with high-capacity and low-cost standard disks reduces costs
Integrated storage management	Optimizes storage performance and utilization	Easy-to-use management of storage devices and services reduces costs
Integrated storage analytics	Understands and manages the performance of storage resources from the user, file, and system perspective	Getting the most out of your storage and application investments accelerates business performance
System management tasks are faster and less complex vs. competitive systems	Higher administrative productivity	Contain costs and re-allocate resources to support revenue-generating activities
ZFS file system with advanced error detection and self-healing capabilities	Eliminates silent data corruption, detects faults, and takes proactive action to eliminate their reoccurrence	Reduced risk with improved error detection and automated remediation, and reduced costs with virtually unlimited file system expandability
Built-in, inline deduplication combined with ZFS compression	Reduces storage consumption as data is being written (inline) without extra overhead, and provides multiplicative space savings with four types of integrated compression	Significant cost and space savings with file-based data in storage consolidation, virtualization, and other data-intensive environments
Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Integration	Enables an integrated Oracle database to Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance view and provides monitoring of multiple storage systems from a single pane	Eases management of multiple Sun ZFS Storage Appliance systems in Oracle database environments, and includes provisioning of capacity and different SLA levels
Simultaneous multiprotocol support across multiple network interconnects	Consolidates multiple storage interconnects (GbE, 10GbE, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand IB) into one system, simplifying storage deployment and reducing risk	Single platform supporting multiple application environments simplifies storage deployment and reduces administration costs

CUSTOMER RESULTS

"We use the ZFS Storage 7320 appliance in our VMware test environment. We are quite impressed. It has all of the capabilities we needed, including file and block level access, and services such as snapshots and hybrid storage built-in at no additional cost."
—Jay Terrell, CTO/Deputy Director, Department of Information Technology, Fulton County Georgia

"As the world's largest Location-as-a-Service provider, LOC-AID's platform is connected to all major cellular carriers in North America. We are consolidating a number of storage activities on Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage appliance. We use it for two production databases, streamlining our daily administration tasks and adding another layer of data protection. We also use the ZFS Storage Appliance's snapshot capabilities in development and test to make our software rollouts foolproof. And we plan to consolidate server virtualization storage for our VM servers, so we can use the snapshot capabilities for rolling back the complete machine if needed. Bottom line, the Sun ZFS Storage appliance has allowed us to maximize our storage space, meet market demands and keep costs under control."
—Manuel Morales, IT Director, LOC-AID

"Oil and gas drilling data is increasingly granular and our customers require a high-volume, high availability collection model today more than ever. As part of our production data warehouse, Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage appliance offers an unrivaled feature set at its price point -- simple configuration, built-in monitoring and enterprise-level reliability. Most importantly, the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance has enabled us to maintain our focus on growing the business and serving the needs of our customers."
—Suvinay Sinha, Principal Data Architect, Dynamic Drilling Systems LP