Server and Storage Systems
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NAS Storage
Sun ZFS Storage 7420
Features & Benefits
Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance
Scalable, Efficient Enterprise NAS
Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance sets a new standard in enterprise NAS with best-in-class efficiency with Hybrid Columnar Compression. It delivers the scale and functionality that enterprises demand combined with easy, appliance-based setup and administration that simplify management and lower TCO.
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Only NAS platform with Hybrid Columnar Compression |
Dramatically lowers storage footprint, cost, and complexity, and provides 3x to 5x higher efficiency on Oracle Databases |
| Hybrid Storage Pools |
Built-in tiered storage with automated data placement across DRAM, Flash, and disk |
| DTrace storage analytics |
Intuitive, visual analysis of performance and capacity for rapid troubleshooting and simplified management. |
| Advanced data services |
Inline deduplication and ZFS compression save on space and cost in storage consolidation and virtualization environments |
| Multi-protocol and connectivity support |
Seamlessly integrates any into any file or block environments, including iSCSI, InfiniBand, and fibre channel |
| ZFS file system |
Provides advanced error detection, self-healing, triple-RAID parity and triple-mirroring for high availability. |
| Best-in-class hardware architecture |
Better storage consolidation and overall performance, with 10x more memory cores than NetApp FAS 3270 and up to 2.59 PB of raw capacity |
| 2x better SPC-1 IOPS performance and price/performance with the Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance* than NetApp FAS 3270A** in SAN environments |
Fewer and smaller storage devices needed to support business critical databases and applications, resulting in lower TCO |
| Oracle integration |
Faster Oracle Database backup and recovery and superior streaming performance for Exadata backup and recovery |
| Better price-performance - 4x than NetApp on Exadata Backup and Restore and 2x better* than NetApp FAS 3270A** SPC-1 in SAN configurations |
Lower total cost of ownership |
| High-availability |
Cluster-ready system |
Results as of October 1, 2011. Source: Storage Performance Council NetApp 68,035 SPC -1 IOPs and Sun ZFS 137,066 SPC-1 IOPs
NetApp $7.49/SPC-1 IOP and Sun ZFS Storage Appliance $2.99/SPC-1 IOP
*Oracle Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00108
**NetApp FAS 3270A: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#ae00004
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