Sun ZFS Storage 7420 | ZFS Storage Appliance

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.

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Hybrid Columnar Compression delivers 3x-5x better storage efficiency
Easy browser-based setup and management with DTrace storage analytics
Hybrid Storage Pools automate 1.7 TB of DRAM, over 10 TB of Flash caches, and 1.72 PB of disk drives
Leading price/performance and Exadata streaming performance
2x better SPC-1 IOPS performance and price/performance* with the Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance** than NetApp FAS 3270A*** in SAN environments

Key Applications

NAS-based Oracle Database and Oracle Application environments
Business-critical, high-performance NAS consolidation
High-availability data center NAS installations
Storage for virtualized environments and cloud
Fixed-content serving and bulk data storage
Disk-to-disk, and disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection
Multi-application, multi-vendor file serving with both NAS and SAN protocols

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#1 Overall in Storage Magazine NAS Quality Awards

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Tools for Evaluating

*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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Customer Success Stories

"With Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, we’ve created a highly available and scalable storage environment for our growing content-on-demand service. The robust set of data services available with the systems and not having to spend more money to license them separately, made economic sense and simplified our installation."

Christine McKinlay, Manager, Video Applications and Application Platforms, Rogers Communications Inc.

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