Sun believes the real benefits begin when combining the J4000 with leading sun servers.
The open Sun storage J4000 array family combines high performance hardware and open source software. The J4000 family supports Solaris, Red Hat, Linux, Suse Linux, and Windows.
Sun has designed the J4000 systems to help manage the exponential growth of data and costs in today's datacenters. Sun believes the real benefits begin when combining the J4000 with Sun servers.
Suns open storage makes it very simple to mix and match components. With ZFS you have high availability and reliable data protection. This helps prevent corruption, and lets you diagnose and fix problems in minutes or hours as opposed to the days or weeks it would take while using the competitor systems.
Family Features
Serial-attached SCSI (SAS)
RoHS-compliant, meeting the European Parliament and China RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) Directives
Customer Replaceable Units for chassis/midplanes, I/O Modules, power/cooling units and HDDs
High Availability Features:
Redundant, hot-swappable components (I/O Modules, HDDs, power and cooling)
Automated I/O path failover
Online administration, expansion, configuration
Global hot spares
Sun Storage J4200 array
2 RU chassis supporting up to 12 SAS/SATA II HDDs
Available in single or dual I/O module configurations
Each SAS I/O Module contains 3 * 12Gb/s ports
Three or six 12Gb/s SAS ports/array
Dual I/O modules provide 4 (x4-wide) SAS host/uplink ports (48Gb bandwidth) and 2 (x4-wide) SAS expansion port (24Gb bandwidth)
Low entry price
Front mounted drives
HDDs: 3.5", low profile, form factor
Dual-ported high performance SAS Disk Drives: 73GB, 146GB and 300GB 15K rpm
SATA II Disk Drives: 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1TB 7.2K rpm
Supports up to 48 SAS or SATA disk drives
Supports tiered storage within same 4 tray cascade using SAS and SATA HDDs (cannot mix SAS and SATA drives in the same tray)
Sun Storage J4400 array
4 RU chassis supporting up to 24 SAS/SATA II HDDs
Available in single or dual I/O module configurations
Each SAS I/O Module contains 3 * 12Gb/s ports
Three or six 12Gb/s SAS ports/array
Dual I/O modules provide: 4 (x4-wide) SAS host/uplink ports (48Gb bandwidth) and 2 (x4-wide) SAS expansion port (24Gb bandwidth)
Best price/performance
Front mounted drives
HDDs: 3.5", low profile, form factor
Dual-ported high performance SAS Disk Drives: 73GB, 146GB, and 300GB 15K rpm
SATA II Disk Drives: 500GB, 750GB and 1TB 7.2 Krpm
Supports up to 192 SAS or SATA disk drives
Supports tiered storage using SAS and SATA HDDs (cannot mix SAS and SATA drives in the same tray)
Sun Storage J4500 array
4 RU chassis supporting up to 48 SATA II HDD's
Available in standard fully populated system configurations represented by a single pre-defined part number
Available in single I/O module configurations only
Provides 4 * 12Gb/s SAS ports
I/O module contains 4 SAS switches that provide: 2 (x4-wide) SAS host/uplink ports (24Gb bandwidth) and 2 (x4-wide) SAS expansion port (24Gb bandwidth)
Breakthrough pricing at ~$1 per gigabyte
Top mounted drives
HDDs: 3.5", low profile, form factor
SATA II Disk Drives: 500GB, 750GB and 1TB 7.2K rpm
Supports up to 192 SATA disk drives initially, with plans to scale to 480 drives
Hardware based RAID Functionality:
Sun StorageTek SAS RAID HBA with high performance advanced RAID
functionality, including full-hardware RAID support for RAID levels
0, 1, 10, 1E, 5, 6, 50, 5EE, and 60.
Software based RAID Functionality:
Sun Solaris 10 ZFS with RAID-Z with support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6
Sun OpenSolaris ZFS with RAID-Z with support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6
Sun StorageTek RAID Manager software
Software Manageability
(all software offered free of usage charges):
Comprehensive management through Sun StorageTek Common Array
Manager (CAM) - included with J4000 arrays
Sun StorageTek RAID Manager software provides a single-view tool
that supports simple, secure, centralized configuration and
monitoring of all HBAs and disk drives in a customer's storage
environment. - included with Sun StorageTek RAID HBA
Sun Solaris ZFS available as management tool at no charge, ZFS
automates common administrative tasks, protecting data from
corruption and providing virtually unlimited scalability and
snapshots.
downloadable free of charge
Auto Service Request (ASR) uses fault telemetry 24/7 to
automatically initiate a service request and begin the problem
resolution process as soon as a problem occurs. (Requires CAM to
enable the connection.)
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