Sun ZFS Storage Appliances Complement New Oracle SPARC T5 and M5 Servers

Oracle Corp. highlighted the advantages of its Sun ZFS Storage Appliances for Oracle’s new SPARC T5 and M5 servers running Oracle Solaris.

SPARC T5 midrange servers are based on the SPARC T5 fast microprocessor.

Engineered together, ZFS Storage Appliances complement SPARC T5 and M5 servers with the throughput, performance storage required by Oracle Database and other heavy I/O enterprise applications.

With ZFS Storage Appliances,
SPARC T5 and M5 server customers can:

• Service thousands of I/O requests in parallel with up to 80 CPU cores, 5x more than the NetApp FAS 3250.
• Accelerate data transfer through the system and to clients with up to 200GB/s memory bandwidth, 9x the NetApp FAS 3250.
• Speed data delivery and lower latency for databases and applications with 40Gb/s IB client networking, 4x more than NetApp FAS 3250.
• Access big data faster with up to 2TB of memory, 50x more than the NetApp FAS 3250.
• Accelerate I/Os with 14.5TB of total flash cache, 7x greater than NetApp FAS 3250.
• Achieve high levels of business continuance and application availability with automated multi-site clustering, available only through the combination of the ZFS Storage Appliance, SPARC servers running Solaris and Solaris Cluster.
• Leverage the operational and business benefits of a single point of contact for service and support of their complete solution.

Integration with Oracle Database

• ZFS Storage Appliances provide integration with Oracle Database, help reduce overall storage footprint and accelerate access to data sets processed on SPARC T5 and M5 servers with Solaris.
• ZFS Storage Appliance, SPARC T5 servers and Solaris also form the foundation for Oracle Optimized Solutions, including the Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database which enables customers to clone production database systems up to 50x faster than traditional manual methods.
• Hybrid Columnar Compression shrinks the size of historical data in data warehouses and can reduce load time by 80%.
• Engineered for the ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Snap Management Utility for Oracle Database allows Oracle Database administrators to directly manage snapshots, clones and restores on the ZFS Storage Appliance.
• I/O Stack optimization with Oracle Database accelerates access to data by using Oracle Database Direct NFS (dNFS), IB RDMA, and Zero-Copy optimizations that enable the Oracle Database to write directly to optimized software in the ZFS Storage Appliance.

"Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances are engineered with Oracle SPARC T5 and M5 servers and Oracle Database to deliver industry-leading performance for business-critical enterprise applications. No other storage system has this degree of integration with Oracle hardware and software," said Phil Bullinger, SVP, storage, Oracle. "The performance and flexibility of these systems enable customers to deploy a single operational environment that easily supports everything from business analytics to customer order processing and customer relationship management, so their data center can adapt to dynamic workloads."