S7000

Sun™ Storage 7000 Series Family

Exponential data growth is challenging today’s IT managers to scale their storage capacity while still delivering high performance and staying within tight IT budgets. Sun can help ease this pain by offering the first unified storage solution that optimizes performance with Hybrid Storage Pools and delivers radical simplification of storage deployment and management all at a cost that redefines the economics of storage. The Sun™ Storage 7000 Series family helps simplify storage deployment and management with its unprecedented easy-to-use management interface, DTrace Analytics software, and self-healing capabilities. These features enable you to quickly find and fix issues, help minimize downtime, and can reduce the time and cost of deployment.

Meeting today’s IT challenges

Storage requirements are growing at a rapid pace with explosive data growth from applications such as social networking, high performance computing (HPC), andWeb-based business applications that foster sharing of information. IDC estimates that the total amount of digital information created, captured, and replicated will grow at a rate 58%per year, reaching 1,610 EB by 2011*. As much as 95%of this data will be unstructured data that will continue to fuel the need for file-based storage solutions such as network attached storage (NAS) and unified storage solutions that extend beyond NAS by providing storage area network (SAN) connectivity as well.

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 filebased 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 enterpriseclass data services, massive scale, and superior performance while delivering significant cost savings. These systems feature a common, easyto-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 breakthrough 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 guess work 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 facility in OpenSolaris and utilizes built-in instrumentation to provide in-depth analysis of key storage subsystems. Systems also include the comprehensive selfhealing capabilities of Sun’s FaultManagement Architecture (FMA). FMA automatically and silently detects and diagnoses underlying system problems and automatically responds by taking faulty components offline.

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 SATA 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, Sun’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 and/or writes

 Easy on your budget

Sun’s Unified Storage Systems deliver higher performance at up to 75%less cost than traditional storage solutions by utilizing costeffective 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 other software features are included in the price of Sun Unified Storage Systems. No additional software licenses are required. The systems also offer economic value by reducing energy consumption and datacenter space requirements. Energy efficiency is improved through the use of 7200 RPMdrives and SSD, both of which require significantly less power to operate than 15K RPMdrives.

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 non-clustered 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 storageappliance is well suited for small to medium size businesses, and departments, or remote offices of large corporations. It uses the same software as the high-end configurations, and delivers a 2 TB of raw capacity in a 2U package using 10K RPMSAS 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 mid-range configuration that radically simplifies enterprise storage management and offers extremely high density with up to 44 TB of raw capacity in a 4U system. 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 7410system. Such customers can conserve rack space and achieve additional savings in energy consumption by deploying their application using the Sun Storage 7210 system. The system utilizes 7200 RPMSATA II drives to achieve high energy efficiency.

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 576 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. The Sun Storage 7410 Cluster System features an active-active architecture with no single point of failure that enables high performance and high availability to maximize business productivity.

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