The Sun Storage 7310 is the newest addition to Sun's Unified Storage Family. This comprehensive, Flash-powered storage system leverages Hybrid Storage Pool capabilities for simplicity and analytic insight is available starting at $40,140 (US list). Ideal for rapid data growth and ease in managing and scaling, the Sun Storage 7310 offers the following features:

• Cluster option to support high availability application environments for continuous data access and to minimize the risk of business downtime

• Hybrid Storage Pool support: in addition to the maximum 64GB of DRAM cache, it can be configured with up to an additional 600GB of SSD cache (1.2TB for cluster version) for enhanced application performance

• DTrace Analytics software, standard across the entire Sun Storage 7000 family, which is the industry's only comprehensive and intuitive analytics environment. A free test system simulator can be accessed at http://www.sun.com/storagesimulator

• Three times less power consumption than traditional storage solutions

• Scalability up from 12TB to 96TB capacity with no interruption to system availability

• High network throughput with four 1Gb Ethernet ports per controller and optional 10Gb connectivity; Single controller offers two PCI slots for additional network or tape-backup connectivity for easy plug and play integration

• Sun Unified Storage Data Migration Services: Sun Professional Services consultants offer a range of capabilities from advisory services to fully-managed resilient infrastructures. These teams are available today to also evaluate current architectures, to identify, quantify and prioritize gaps and risks, as well as provide ongoing design assistance, best practices and management expertise.

Fishworks Engineer Adam Leventhal describes the Sun Storage 7310 as "a scalable system from 12TB with a single half-populated J4400 JBOD up to 96TB with 4 JBODs. You can combine two 7310 head units to form a cluster. The base configuration includes a single quad-core CPU, 16GB of DRAM, a SAS HBA, and two available PCIe slots for NICs, backup cards, or the Fishworks cluster card."

He continues, "the 7310 fills an important role in the 7000 series product line: an entry-level clusterable, expandable system, with impressive performance, and an attractive price."

In regards to performance, another Fishworks Engineer, Brendan Gregg, has posted a summary of the performance limits he has found with the Sun Storage 7310, which breaks down like this:

Workload: NFSv3 streaming read from DRAM

• 7310: ~1.08 Gbytes/sec
• 7410: ~2.02 Gbytes/sec

Workload: NFSv3 streaming read from disk

• 7310: 780 Mbytes/sec
• 7410: 1.20 Gbytes/sec

Workload: NFSv3 streaming write to disk

• 7310: ~477 Mbytes/sec
• 7410: ~595 Mbytes/sec

Workload: NFSv3 read IOPS from DRAM

• 7310: 180,000 IOPS
• 7410: 281,000 IOPS

Keep in mind that the Sun Storage 7410 is considered a high-end storage system.

More Information

Sun Storage 7310 Unified Storage System - product page

Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

Sun EVP John Fowler discusses momentum for Sun\'s Unified Storage Systems - video runs 26:02

Free test system simulator

Sun Systems News Channel

Leventhal\'s blog

Gregg\'s blog [...read more...]

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