Who could put it more simply? Here you will find out the top 5 cool features offered by the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. Watch the video presentation delivered by Constantin Gonzalez and the special appearance by Brendan Gregg, Fishworks engineer, to find out how users can meet their storage needs.

Viewers will receive the benefits and insights into the Sun Storage 7000 through the video presentation, and they can tune into the question and answer blog discussion provided by Gonzalez. For viewer reference, the presentation slides are provided via PDF and StarOffice. The presentation is enhanced by demonstrations and graphic representations of the discussion topics.

In his blog, Gonzalez answers common user questions and provides advice: "You see, either you build your own storage machine out of the building blocks you have, and get all the functionality and flexibility you want at the expense of some configuration effort, or you buy the car as a whole, nice, round, sweet package, so you don't worry about configuration, implementation details, complexity, etc," said Gonzalez.

Below is an overview of the top 5 benefits provided by the video presentation.

Top 5 for Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

# 1. ZFS & Solaris Made Easy

Users do not have to be administrators to benefit from ZFS, all they need is a web browser. With the power of ZFS, users get pooled storage, copy-on-write, data integrity, self-healing, unlimited snapshots and clones. With the power of OpenSolaris, users get fault management, DTrace observability, and more. With ZFS and Solaris, users both get easy to use web interface.

# 2. Turbo-Charge Your Storage

Storage is automatic and transparent, enabled by ZFS. In addition, users may take advantage of the following:

• Hybrid Pools bring built-in support for flash memory (SSDs)
• Logzilla provides fast SSD Log for speeding up synchronous write operations (7210, 7410 models)
• Readzilla gives second-level SSD Cache for accelerated read operations (7410 model)

# 3. Real-Time Analytics

When users can see everything in real-time, they have full control of storage and can drill down to the core issues. In addition, they can view hot files; clients and users; protocol usage; read vs. write loads; bandwidth, latency; per user, client, protocol, filesystem, and disk device.

# 4. High-End Features For Free

Bundled into the high-end feature package are several extras, such as Flash, RAID-6, scripting, and compression. In addition, users may benefit from high availability clustering, unlimited snapshots, remote replication, and several protocols, such as NFS, CIFS, ISCSI, HTTP, WebDAV, FTP, NDMP, FC Target, IB, and SNMP.

# 5. No Risk, No Lock-In, Just 100% Open Goodness

With the open platform comes industry-standard hardware that includes Sun x86 servers and Sun JBOD storage. With Open Source OS, users have many options: the software can be reinstalled, the demo can be tried first that is fully functional and virtual, or can download the 60-day Try and Buy version.

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