With the introduction of its third-generation Sun ZFS Storage Appliance line, Oracle can assure its customers twice the performance at half the cost per IOPS of NetApp on transactional workloads. Oracle claims that the significant new software and hardware enhancements (Hybrid Columnar Compression, for example), to the product line's Hybrid Storage Pool technology accelerate IOPS performance and allow customers to maintain optimal performance under heavy utilization.
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Newly released by Oracle, the ZFS Storage Appliance product line features best-in-class management software and an innovative hybrid storage pool architecture that has been integrated with Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM, to provide optimal business system performance. Oracle's product announcement claims that the products deliver the leading throughput, flexibility and ease of use demanded by organizations using storage for cloud computing, virtualization, storage consolidation and data protection.
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By hiding the write latency of disks and thereby enabling the use of economical, high-capacity drives, Logzilla, a key component of the ZFS Hybrid Storage Pool, can accelerate synchronous writes, blogger Adam Leventhal observes, conceding at the same time the role played by the fast SAS and SATA SSDs from STEC in the Sun Storage 7000 series. He adds that using SAS-attached SSDs is a simpler and more reliable, though slower, clustering solution than the traditional PCI-attached DRAM device, however.
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