Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance software delivers enterprise-class functionality across the full range of NAS appliances, from the branch office to the data center. It helps reduce the cost and complexity of managing business-critical storage with industry-unique hybrid columnar compression for Oracle Database, an easy-to-use Web-based management interface, and the industry’s best storage analysis and optimization environment.

| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| The industry’s only NAS platform with Hybrid Columnar Compression support for Oracle Database |
Dramatically lower storage footprint, complexity and cost with 3x to 5x higher efficiency on Oracle Databases with in-database archiving for data warehousing, OLTP, and mixed environments than all other NAS platforms |
| Hybrid Storage Pools with automatic management of multiple storage tiers including high-performance and high-capacity disks, separate flash-based read and write caches, and industry leading memory capacity |
Simplified storage management, higher performance and increased storage efficiency without adding administrative overhead |
| Simple, intuitive, visual analysis of performance and capacity with DTrace storage analytics |
Understand and manage the performance of storage resources from the user, file, storage system and client level. |
| A rich suite of data protocols and services |
A single system can support a diverse set of applications - simplifying deployments, enhancing storage consolidation, and improving storage efficiency |
| Thin provisioning and unlimited, space-efficient snapshots |
Higher storage efficiency, lower costs, and more rapid database cloning for test and development environments |
| Industry-leading data protection with triple-parity RAID and triple mirroring |
Maximum data availability and performance in the event of multiple drive failures |
| Built-in, inline deduplication combined with ZFS compression |
Significant cost and space savings for primary data in file serving and virtualization environments |
| 31% to 41% faster than Netapp in administration, provisioning, and troubleshooting |
Lower operating costs, quick deployments and better SLA compliance |
| High-performance 40 Gbit Infiniband and 10 Gbit Ethernet support |
Low-latency, high-throughput NAS for performance sensitive applications |
| Remote replication |
Simple to deploy storage based data protection |
| Built-in support for CIFS, NFS, WebDAV, HTTP, FTP, fibre channel, iSCSI and InfiniBand |
Fits into existing storage environments and supports block-access from NAS devices |