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SUN STORAGE 7000 SERIES

FAMILY
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Exponential data growth is challenging today’s IT managers to scale

RADICAL SIMPLICITY
COMBINED WITH their storage capacity while still delivering high performance and
BREAKTHROUGH staying within tight IT budgets. Oracle can help ease this pain by
PRICE/PERFORMANCE
offering the first unified storage solution that optimizes performance
FEATURES
with Hybrid Storage Pools and delivers radical simplification of
• Unprecedented management storage deployment and management⎯all at a cost that redefines
tools to easily find and fix
issues as well as optimize
the economics of storage. Oracle’s Sun Storage 7000 Series family
performance helps simplify storage deployment and management with its
• Active-active cluster option
• No additional software license
unprecedented easy-to-use interface, DTrace Analytics software,
fees—all software features and self-healing capabilities. These features enable you to quickly
including protocols and data
services are included find and fix issues, minimize downtime, and reduce the time and
• Optimized storage hierarchy
with Hybrid Storage Pools
cost of deployment.
containing DRAM, SSD, and
HDD drives
• Seamless multiprotocol
integration and secure data
sharing between Microsoft
Windows and UNIX clients
• No additional software license
fees⎯all software features
including protocols and data
services are included

Figure 1. The Sun Storage 7000 Series family helps simplify storage deployment and
BENEFITS
• Radical simplification of
management with its unprecedented easy-to-use management interface, DTrace Analytics

storage management software, and self-healing capabilities.

• High performance and high
availability Meeting Today’s IT Challenges
• Lower energy consumption at
Storage requirements are growing at a rapid pace with explosive data growth from
up to 75 percent less than the
cost of competitive solutions applications such as social networking, high-performance computing (HPC), and
• Scalability in multiple Web-based business applications that foster sharing of information. IDC estimates
dimensions to adapt to your
that the total amount of digital information created, captured, and replicated will
changing business needs by
increasing compute power, grow at a rate of 58 percent per year, reaching 1,610 EB by 2011. 1
storage capacity, or
performance independently As much as 95 percent of this data will be unstructured data that will continue to
• Ecoefficiency due to reduced fuel the need for file-based storage solutions such as network-attached storage
power consumption of SSD
(NAS) and unified storage solutions that extend beyond NAS by providing storage
and HDD disk drives rather
than high RPM drives area network (SAN) connectivity as well.

1
IDC, “The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe,” March 2008.

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Fast Access to Large Volumes of Data

One of the unique requirements of today’s Web 2.0 and HPC applications is that
they must provide both high performance and the ability to preserve and manage
large volumes of file-based data. IT managers are being asked to continuously meet
these growing storage capacity needs on flat or declining IT budgets—all while
continuing to support high service levels for more and more users.

Sun Storage 7000 Series

The Sun Storage 7000 series is a family of unified storage systems that offers new
innovations in storage, including enterprise-class data services, massive scale, and
superior performance while delivering significant cost savings. These systems
feature a common, easy-to-use management interface that requires no additional
training, and have the industry’s most comprehensive analytics environment to help
isolate and resolve issues to minimize impact to your business. An advanced Hybrid
Storage Pool design automatically optimizes performance and helps lower power
and cooling requirements, enabling the Sun Storage 7000 family to deliver break-
through performance while radically simplifying the way you manage your storage.

Storage That Is Easy to Deploy, Analyze, and Optimize

Provisioning and management is dramatically simplified in Sun Storage 7000 series
systems through the easy-to-use management interface that takes the guesswork out
of system installation, configuration, and tuning.

DTrace Analytics software provides the industry’s only comprehensive and intuitive
analytics environment. Administrators have all of the tools they need to quickly
identify and diagnose system performance issues, perform capacity planning, and
debug live storage and networking problems before they become challenging for the
entire network. The real-time analysis and monitoring functionality is based on the
award-winning DTrace technology and uses built-in instrumentation to provide in-
depth analysis of key storage subsystems. Systems also include the comprehensive
self-healing capabilities of Oracle’s Fault Management Architecture (FMA). FMA
automatically and silently detects and diagnoses underlying system problems and
automatically responds by taking faulty components offline.

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Figure 2. DTrace Analytics software provides the industry’s only comprehensive and
intuitive analytics environment.

Performance and Scalability to Meet Your Business Needs

To deliver high performance using cost-effective components, the Sun Storage 7000
series file system, ZFS, seamlessly optimizes access to the different types of media
in the Hybrid Storage Pools. ZFS was designed to automatically recognize different
I/O patterns and place data in the best storage media for optimal performance.

ZFS transparently executes writes to low-latency SSD media so that writes can be
quickly acknowledged, allowing the application to continue processing. ZFS then
automatically flushes the data to high-capacity drives as a background task. Another
type of SSD media acts as a cache to reduce read latency, and ZFS also transparently
manages the process of copying frequently accessed data into this cache to
seamlessly satisfy read requests from clients.

Scalability in Multiple Dimensions

Unlike traditional storage architectures, Oracle’s Unified Storage Systems support
scalability in multiple dimensions with the ability to scale I/O throughput, processor
performance, and total storage capacity to meet your application needs. As
application requirements change, IT managers can choose to

• Increase computational power by adding more CPUs and cache

• Expand total capacity by adding enterprise-class SATA drive expansion units

• Increase performance using additional SSD to buffer storage reads or writes

Easy on Your Budget

Oracle’s Unified Storage Systems deliver higher performance at half the cost of
traditional storage solutions by using cost-effective components and providing a rich
set of built-in software features. While many other vendors charge license fees for
protocols and data services such as CIFS, NFS, HTTP, and replication, these and

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other software features are included in the price of the Unified Storage Systems. No
additional software licenses are required. The systems also offer economic value by
reducing energy consumption and data center space requirements. Energy efficiency
is improved through the use of 7200 RPM drives and SSD, both of which require
significantly less power to operate than 15 K RPM drives.

A Range of Configurations
To meet a variety of customer needs for capacity, price, and performance, the Sun
Storage 7000 series family comes in three different configurations plus a cluster
configuration that offers maximum availability.

All nonclustered systems come bundled with the same software including data
protocols, replication, compression, and DTrace Analytics software for system
troubleshooting and performance optimization. Clustered systems include an
additional software module for cluster software features.

Sun Storage 7110 System

This entry-level, easy-to-install storage appliance is well suited for small and
medium businesses, and departments, or remote offices of large corporations. It uses
the same software as the high-end configurations, and delivers a 2 TB or 4.2 TB of
raw capacity in a 2U package using 10 K RPM SAS drives. With the Sun Storage
7110 system, customers can acquire easy-to-use enterprise data management
functionality at entry-level costs.

Sun Storage 7210 System

The Sun Storage 7210 system is a midrange configuration that radically simplifies
enterprise storage management and offers extremely high density with up to 48
TB of raw capacity in a 4U system, and can scale to 142 TB with two optional
Sun Storage J4500 arrays. This system includes write-optimized SSD, so it is
ideal for organizations that require high volume throughput for write operations
and yet do not require the extensive capacity available in the high-end Sun
Storage 7410 system. The system uses 7200 RPM SATA II drives to achieve
high energy efficiency.

Sun Storage 7310 System

The Sun Storage 7310 redefines mission-critical entry storage for the enterprise,
with simplified management, performance, efficiency, and seamless expansion to
meet your growing needs. It provides a high-availability cluster option with
scalability up to 96 TB raw capacity, and supports the hybrid storage pool that can
be configured with up to 600 GB of read-cache and optional write-optimized cache
for enhanced application performance.

Sun Storage 7410 System

This high-end unified storage system is available in a single or cluster configuration.
It offers radically simplified storage management and up to 288 TB of raw capacity
for extreme scalability. The Sun Storage 7410 system also delivers superior
performance while reducing energy consumption with its inventive Hybrid Storage
Pool architecture.

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Cluster Configurations
For customers that require maximum protection against downtime, the Sun Storage
7310 and 7410 systems also support a two-node cluster configuration with no single
point of failure. The Sun Storage 7310 and 7410 Cluster Systems feature an active-
active architecture with no single point of failure that enables high performance and
high availability to maximize business productivity.

Sun Storage 7000 Series Family Configurations

Sun Storage 7000 Series Family Configurations

Write Read
Key Customer Maximum Storage Space Cluster
Optimized Optimized
Requirement Capacity (Rack Units) Option
SSD SSD
Sun
Low-priced entry-level 2 TB or 4.2 TB (16
Storage
system with all software x 2.5 in. 146 GB 2U N N N
7110
features or 300 GB disks)
system
Sun Midrange scalability 48 TB (48 x 3.5 in.
Storage and performance in a 1 TB disks) and up
4U Up to 2 SSDs N N
7210 compact energy- to 142 TB with
system efficient 4U system two J4500 arrays*
Sun
Entry-level cluster 1U per node, Up to 16 SSDs Up to 6 per
Storage
option for high 96 TB 4U per for cluster node (600 Y
7310
availability storage array configuration GB total)
system
Sun
Best price/performance 2U per node, Up to 16 SSDs Up to 6 per
Storage
and maximum growth 288 TB 4U per for cluster node (600 Y
7410
path storage array configuration GB total)
system

*There are two specific configurations of the Sun Storage J4500 array that can be used with the Sun Storage 7210 system: a 24 TB array with 48 x 500 GB 7,200 RPM drives and a 48 TB array
with 48 x 1 TB 7,200 RPM drives.

Sun Storage 7000 Series Family Specifications

Sun Storage 7000 Series Family Specifications

7110 7210 7310 7410

Architecture
Processor Quad-Core AMD Two Quad-Core AMD Up to two 2.3 GHz Up to four 2.3 GHz
Opteron processor, 1.9 Opteron processors, 2.3 Quad-Core AMD Quad-Core AMD
GHz GHz Opteron processors, per Opteron processors,
node per node
Main memory Up to 8 GB Up to 64 GB Up to 64 GB per node Up to 128 GB per
node
Read Flash N/A N/A Up to 600 GB per node Up to 600 GB per
Accelerator node
(cache)

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Sun Storage 7000 Series Family Specifications (cont’d)

7110 7210 7310 7410

Base Configurations
Configuration • 14 x 146 GB • 11.5 TB (46 x 250 • Up to 96 TB using • Up to 288 TB using
options SAS 10 K RPM GB) high capacity 7200 high capacity 7200
drives • 22.5 TB (45 x 500 RPM disks RPM disks
• 14 x 300 GB GB) and 1x Write • Supports 24-drive • Supports 24-drive
SAS 10 K RPM Flash Accelerator storage expansion storage expansion
drives (SSD) arrays with optional arrays with optional
• 23 TB (46 x 500 GB) Write Flash Write Flash
Accelerator (SSD) Accelerator (SSD)
• 44 TB (44 x 1 TB)
and 2 x Write Flash
Accelerator (SSD)
• 46 TB (46 x 1 TB)
• Supports up to two
Sun Storage J4500
expansion arrays in
two specific
configurations
Software
File system ZFS (128-bit capacity)
File level protocol NFS v2/v3/v4, CIFS, HTTP, WebDAV, FTP/SFTP/FTPS
Block level protocol ISCSI
Data compression Four levels of data compression available
Replication 1:N, N:1, manual, scheduled, continuous
Monitoring DTrace Analytics (for system tuning and debugging); dashboard monitoring for key system
performance metrics
Automated “Phone Home” capability with automatic case creation, configurable alerts
serviceability
RAID Striping, mirroring, single-parity RAID, double-parity RAID, wide stripes
Remote management HTTPS, SSH, SNMP v2/v3, IPMI
Snapshots Read only, read/write (clone), restore
Directory services NIS, AD, LDAP
Data security Checksum data and metadata, antivirus quarantine
Network services NTP, DHCP, SMTP
Standard and Optional Interfaces
Integrated network Four 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet ports
Optional network Dual GigE UTP; Dual GigE MMF; Quad Gigabit Ethernet UTP; Dual 10 GigE Fiber XFP (requires
connectivity fiber transceiver)
Optional tape backup Dual channel 4 Gb FC HBA; Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI HBA
HBA
Power
AC power 100 V to 120 V / 200 V to 220 V AC @ 100 V to 120 V / 200 V 90 V to 264 V AC (47
200 V to 240 V 10 Amps, 100 V to 110 to 240 V AC (50/60 Hz) Hz to 63 Hz)
(50/60 Hz) V with three PSUs
Operating 5°C to 35°C (41°F 5°C to 32°C (37°F to 5°C to 35°C (41°F to 5°C to 35°C (41°F to
temperature/ to 95°F), 10% to 91°F), 10% to 90% 95°F), 10% to 90% 95°F), 10% to 90%
humidity (single, 90% relative relative humidity, relative humidity, relative humidity,
nonrack system) humidity, noncondensing, noncondensing noncondensing
noncondensing 27°C max wet bulb

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Sun Storage 7000 Series Family Specifications (cont’d)

7110 7210 7310 7410

Nonoperating 40°C to 65°C -40°C to 65°C (-40°F to 40°C to 70°C (-40°F to -40°C to 70°C
temperature/humidity (-40°F to 149°F), up 149°F), up to 149°F), up to (-40°F to 158°F),
(single, non-rack to 93% relative humidity, 93% relative humidity, up to 93% relative
system) 93% relative noncondensing, non-condensing humidity,
humidity, 38°C max. wet bulb noncondensing
noncondensing
Altitude (operating) Up to 3,000 m, Up to 4,000 m, maximum Up to 3,000 m, Up to 3,048 m,
(single, non-rack maximum ambient ambient temperature is maximum ambient maximum ambient
system temperature is derated derated by 1°C per 300 m temperature is derated temperature is
by 1°C per 300 m above 900 m by 1°C per 300 m derated by 1°C per
above 900 m above 900 m 300 m above 900
m
Regulations (Meets or Exceeds the Following Requirements)
Safety IEC 60950, UL/CSA IEC 60950, UL/CSA IEC 60950, UL/CSA IEC 60950,
60950, EN60950, CB 60950-1, EN60950, CB 60950, EN60950, CB UL/CSA 60950,
Scheme with all Scheme with all country Scheme with all EN60950, CB
country differences differences country differences Scheme with all
country differences
RFI/EMI FCC CFR 47 Part 15 FCC Class A, Part 15 47 FCC CFR 47 Part 15 FCC CFR 47 Part
Class A, EN 55022 CFR, EN55022, CISPR Class A, EN 55022 15 Class A, EN
Class A, EN 61000-3- 22, EN300-386:v1.3.2, Class A, EN 61000-3- 55022 Class A, EN
2, EN 61000-3-3, EN ICES-003 2, EN 61000-3-3, EN 61000-3-2, EN
300-386 300-386 61000-3-3, EN
300-386
Immunity EN55024, EN300- EN55024, EN300- EN55024, EN300-386 EN55024, EN300-
386 386:v1.3.2 386

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