Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4 NAS for Oracle Database 12c

The Oracle ZFS Storage OS8.3 software with analytics for pluggable databases, encryption, and more than 30 other enhancements is designed to increase customer productivity.

Oracle Corp.’s NAS storage system, ZFS Storage ZS4-4, enables customers to accelerate application performance and improve operational efficiencies.

Co-engineered with Oracle Database 12c, it is the an storage system with analytics for pluggable databases. It doubles previous generation performance to enable faster time to actionable intelligence and smarter, more competitive business decisions. The ZFS Storage ZS4-4 provides protection against security breaches with its fine-grained, simple, cost-efficient encryption capabilities.

The ZFS Storage ZS4-4 with the Oracle ZFS Storage OS8.3 delivers new capabilities for Database 12c environments available  with Oracle storage. It provides pluggable database-level visibility into thousands of containers across the enterprise with analytics to simplify and accelerate storage performance tuning and troubleshooting in Database 12c and Oracle Multitenant environments. By comparison, EMC and NetApp storage solutions see thousands of Database 12c pluggable databases as one instance, requiring manually-intensive tuning and guesswork.

Customers can identify database-related storage issues in 67% fewer steps with ZFS Storage ZS4-4 thanks to co-engineering with Database 12c, the ZFS Storage appliance analytics and the The ZFS Storage ZS4-4 turbocharges amounts of data at in-memory speeds, doubling the performance of its predecessor with more than 30GB/s throughput and 50% more DRAM and CPU cores. ZFS Storage ZS4-4 has more DRAM than most NAS systems have in flash.

The ZFS Storage ZS4-4 is built on the in-memory, DRAM-based Hybrid Storage Pool architecture and multi-threaded symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) OS which takes advantage of all 120 cores in parallel and 3TB DRAM per cluster. With up to 90% of system I/O delivered from memory, customers can accelerate application performance.

The ZFS Storage appliances include AES-256 data-at-rest encryption at the project-, share- or LUN-level with the capability to combine encrypted and non-encrypted volumes in a system. Whether enterprise-wide or local, encryption key management gives customers protection against security breaches while managing compliance with regulatory requirements.

The ZFS Storage appliances support Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) and automatic data optimization with HCC for Database 12c. HCC enables data warehousing and archiving environments, among others, to compress by an average of 12x, while increasing database query performance by up to 5x, and reducing storage capacity costs by 40%.

The Oracle’s NAS systems have been widely adopted by Fortune 100 companies, 9 of the 10 top telecommunications companies, 5 of the 5 top semiconductor companies, and 4 of the 5 top US banks.

“Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4 reinforces the fact that Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances are the only NAS option for Oracle Database 12c customers who want the speed, efficiency and manageability that comes with co-engineered hardware and software,” said Scott Tracy, VP, storage software, Oracle. “Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4 extends Oracle Database with unparalleled visibility into its performance and storage requirements. With analytics for pluggable databases, self-tuning capabilities, and policy-based deep compression to maximize infrastructure investments for Oracle Database 12c, customers can further accelerate their time-critical business decisions.“