Data Protection for Windows Environments with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

Protect data, reduce infrastructure costs, improve productivity, and simplify data center management

Microsoft applications are pervasive in the enterprise data center. Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance ensures interoperability with all Microsoft applications and is certified on the Microsoft Hardware Qualification List and the Microsoft Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP), which facilitates third-party storage testing and solution publishing for Microsoft Exchange Server.

Oracle makes it easy for system administrators to deploy, provision, and manage storage. A head-to-head comparison conducted by the Edison group showed that the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance took 36% less time to manage, 45% less time to configure, and was 38% easier to provision than competitive systems. What’s more, Microsoft application-related storage workload issues can be observed and profiled, thanks to DTrace Storage Analytics, which displays specific issues that might be hindering performance. These include overtaxed disks and files, an offending database client, real-time disk capacity and CPU utilization, and numerous other metrics.

	AT A GLANCE
	Seamless integration with Microsoft based data-protection features such as Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) Built-in data-protection with snapshots, self healing fault management architecture, and ZFS end-to-end checksums Support for disaster recovery scenarios with built-in remote replication Storage analytics provides observability into business-critical desktop storage workloads High-availability cluster capabilities on the Sun ZFS Storage 7320 and 7420 appliances, with all other features and services available

	KEY BENEFITS
	Improve data availability and user productivity through instantaneous backup and restore using snapshots and clones Integrate Microsoft Volume Shadow Copies with third-party backup/restore applications Avoid downtime with self-healing hardware and file systems Plan and test disaster-recovery and data-distribution scenarios with built-in remote replication Improve Microsoft application reliability and availability through observability of storage workloads with storage analytics