Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems provide high-performance unified storage that combine NAS, SAN, and object storage capabilities with the extreme performance and superior efficiency required by demanding enterprise applications and unpredictable cloud workloads. As Oracle engineered storage, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems are deeply integrated with Oracle Database, Oracle engineered systems, and Oracle Public Cloud to maximize the return on your Oracle software investment in ways that competitive storage systems are unable to achieve. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems provide material benefits when you need to accelerate mission-critical applications and increase business and IT productivity—enabling you to save valuable resources, reduce risk, and lower your total cost of ownership (TCO).

Extreme Enterprise Storage Performance

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems are based on an advanced hardware and software architecture. It includes a highly intelligent, multithreading SMP storage operating system that makes the most of modern enterprise hardware and enables you to run multiple workloads and advanced data services without performance degradation. This powerful OS is complemented by the unique Hybrid Storage Pool design, which automatically caches data in dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and flash cache to provide optimal performance and exceptional efficiency while ensuring that data remains safely stored on reliable and high capacity solidstate disk (SSD) or hard disk drive (HDD) storage. With the hybrid storage pool design, heavily accessed data is served mostly from cache—up to 90 percent—to accelerate your applications with extremely high throughput and low latency for diverse, demanding workloads.

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance also integrates high-availability (HA) features such as active-active controller clustering for failover and a self-healing file system architecture that ensures end-to-end data integrity. By combining reliability with a rich set of enterprise-class data services, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems are an ideal choice to meet your demanding enterprise storage needs.

Superior Efficiency

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems feature an advanced set of management and analytics tools that enable storage administrators to rapidly provision, manage, and troubleshoot storage related issues. Rapid deployment of powerful advanced data services—unlimited snapshots, clones, thin provisioning, five different compression algorithms, and replication are managed via the intuitive browser user interface (BUI) or the command-line interface (CLI).

Oracle Database Integration

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems are deeply integrated with Oracle Database to improve performance, increase efficiencies, and lower TCO. Through engineering, developing, testing, and supporting hardware and software together, Oracle engineered storage systems deliver unique capabilities that enable Oracle software to run faster and more efficiently.

Cloud Integration

Traditional storage architectures lack the resources required to support highly virtualized dynamic cloud workloads. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems are:

• Cloud-architected. Based on the architectural advantages of a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) operating system (OS) combined with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance system’s Hybrid Storage Pool technology, these systems provide a superior design that delivers sustained high performance for consolidated on-premises and private cloud workloads.
• Cloud-managed. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems support OpenStack and Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control cloud management frameworks with RESTful APIs so you can integrate them into any environment. 
• Cloud integrated. Unlike competitive suppliers that have no public cloud of their own, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance enables you to integrate your on-premises storage systems with Oracle Public Cloud to simplify your journey to the cloud. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance provides an integrated cloud snapshot backup feature that reduces on-premises costs and provides flexible archive and recovery options.
• Cloud-proven. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems have been proven in a variety of private and public cloud implementations worldwide.

Architecture and Configuration Options

The architecture of Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems is based upon three primary components:

• Software. The unique, intelligent multithreading SMP storage OS provides enterprise-class data services and robust data protection, while Hybrid Storage Pool technology manages the dynamic caching. Most data services, including the systems’ DTrace Analytics feature are included in the base systems.
• Controller. A robust, powerful storage controller—which is based on cost-effective, enterprise-grade x86 servers from Oracle—delivers high-performance compute power and massive DRAM. Optional dual-controller cluster configurations provide high availability with rapid failover.
• Storage. Enterprise-grade storage enclosures are available with either all-flash storage, all HDD storage, or a combination of both SSDs and HDDs that enable you to optimize different storage pools for a wide range of performance and capacity requirements. They are built using the latest generation of SAS HDDs and SSDs combined with read and write flash accelerators for high performance and high availability.

Optional Software

In addition to the rich software suite included with the base systems, you can acquire separately licensed software features: remote replication, clones, and encryption.

Learn more: https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/zs7-2-datasheet.pdf