Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance User Manual

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Key Features
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Key Features
The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance includes technologies to deliver the best storage price/
performance and unprecedented observability of your workloads in production, including:
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Analytics, a system for dynamically observing the behavior of your system in real-time and
viewing data graphically
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The ZFS Hybrid Storage Pool, composed of optional Flash-memory devices for acceleration
of reads and writes, low-power, high-capacity disks, and DRAM memory, all managed
transparently as a single data hierarchy
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Support for a variety of hardware
For more information about Analytics and Hardware, refer to the documentation on the Oracle
Technology Network (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/
index.html)
Supported Protocols
The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance supports a variety of industry-standard client protocols,
including NFS, iSCSI, SMB, FTP, HTTP, NDMP, Fibre Channel, SRP, iSER, and SFTP.
For information on these protocols, see the following:
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“SAN Fibre Channel Configuration” on page 150
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“Configuring SAN iSER Targets” on page 140
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“NFS Configuration” on page 237
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“iSCSI Configuration” on page 242
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“SMB Configuration” on page 243
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Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Specifications

General

Connectivity	10GbE, 40GbE, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel
Protocols	NFS, SMB, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, HTTP
Operating System	Oracle Solaris
Data Protection	snapshots, clones, remote replication
Data Reduction	Inline compression, deduplication
High Availability	Redundant hardware components (controllers, power supplies, fans). Automatic failover between controllers. Hot-swappable drives and components. Cluster configurations for increased availability and scalability.
Management Interface	Web-based GUI, CLI, REST API
Storage Type	Hybrid (SSD + HDD), All-Flash
Storage Capacity	Up to several petabytes
Encryption	AES-256 encryption at rest