For the X4500 the ZFS File System and Solaris 10 can help present a large amount of disk cache for faster restores and back ups.
BigAdmin Papers Cover Sun Fire X4500 as Backup Disk Cache With Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup and Symantec Netbackup Softwares
To manage some real life problems that a customer may encounter while building a database, Sun users should consider looking into the blog of Ryan Arneson. In one of his potentially helpful blogs, he mentions how the Sun Fire X4500 can be used as a large disk cache for disk-based back ups. This can be done by using Sun StorageTek Enterprise backup software.
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