Sun ZFS Backup Appliance for Oracle Systems

Oracle Corp. announced the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance, an integrated, performance backup solution for Oracle engineered systems, including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4.

Sun ZFS Backup Appliance delivers up to 20 terabytes per hour backup and up to 9.4 terabytes per hour restore throughputs, the fastest published recovery rates among general purpose storage systems for Oracle engineered systems data protection.

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance’s fast backup throughput is based on backups of unique data, and does not require additional host-side software or CPU resources. Tested, validated and supported with Oracle engineered systems, Sun ZFS Backup Appliance provides speed, simplicity and savings. It can decrease recovery time by up to 4x, compared to published Oracle Database backup performance rates from NetApp and EMC.

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance also offers up to 3.9x lower total cost of ownership (TCO) over a three year period, versus comparable NetApp and EMC Data Domain solutions (Comparison based on current U.S. list price for initial investment and cost over three year period for the NetApp FAS3270C, EMC Data Domain 890 and Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance.).

Oracle Hardware and Software Engineered
For Data Protection and ROI
The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance helps reduce the risk of failed restores by optimizing availability with predictive self-healing features and a fault management architecture that automatically detects and diagnoses underlying problems. End-to-end data check-summing also automatically checks and repairs corrupted data down to the bit level. Using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) direct connection via TCP/IP over IB, the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance can eliminate the need for additional servers and expensive third-party backup software.

It also helps eliminate complex and costly changes to data protection procedures by delivering performance and space savings while implementing Oracle recommended RMAN full and incremental backup procedures.

Oracle Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) on the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance allows better ROI through efficient data and system usage. Oracle storage, including the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, is able to clone and enable full system operation on HCC-compressed database copies. Snapshots of HCC-compressed tables can be cloned without decompression overhead, and used for test and development, quality assurance, reporting, or additional data protection.

Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is available in two configurations, High Performance and High Capacity, and comes pre-racked and cabled, helping to eliminate hardware tuning. It is engineered with Oracle’s complete software stack, from Oracle Applications to Oracle Database and Oracle VM, as well as the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4.

"Business operations are highly dependent on database availability, making fast backup and recovery an enterprise imperative," said Phil Bullinger, SVP, Storage, Oracle. "Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is purpose-built to work with Oracle engineered systems, taking advantage of hardware and software engineered together to deliver the speed, simplicity and savings customers need to protect their data and meet stringent recovery time objectives."