Oracle Adds Data Deduplication to Sun 7000 Storage Array

Oracle has announced a number of enhancements to its Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System, including support for Fibre Channel, data deduplication and compression, and 1TB and 2TB SAS drives. As reported on InfoStor, Support for 4Gbps and 8Gbps Fibre Channel is a first for the 7000 Unified Storage System, which also supports Gigabit Ethernet, 10GbE and InfiniBand (IP/RDMA) external connections, and the NFS, CIFS and iSCSI protocols.

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"Support for Fibre Channel also enables administrators to use Oracle/Sun's DTrace Analytics tools in SAN environments. DTrace allows administrators to locate SAN hot spots and bottlenecks, get information on how configuration and application changes will affect the SAN storage environment, and to provision solid-state disk (SSD) flash drives in Hybrid Storage Pools.

"Oracle also integrated real-time, inline (as opposed to post processing) block-level data deduplication and compression in the Solaris ZFS-based Sun Storage 7000 array. The company claims capacity reduction of 50% to 80% using data deduplication."

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