Sun StorageTek 9970 System

The Sun StorageTek 9980 system provides extreme levels of performance and capacity for the largest data center environments. This highly available and massively scalable storage system has a base configuration consisting of two frames: the Control Frame and Array Frame. The Control Frame contains the cache and switch modules, host and drive interfaces, disk array processors, and the service processor. Up to four Array Frames can be supported, each with redundant power supplies and up to 256 drives. The system's virtualization capabilities allow storage consolidation, which helps to reduce TCO by enabling connections to multiple hosts and allows for more flexibility in configuring a SAN infrastructure. The storage system is easy to operate and control and helps to simplify data management. Software is available to support key storage applications typically used in data center environments including path management, real time replication, and remote mirroring for disaster recovery.

The Sun StorageTek 9970 system provides extreme levels of performance and availability for data center environments. The system's virtualization capabilities allow for more flexibility in configuring a SAN infrastructure, which helps to reduce TCO by enabling storage consolidation. The storage system is easy to operate and control and helps to simplify data management. Software is available to support key storage applications typically used in data center environments including path management, real time replication, and remote mirroring for disaster recovery.

• To achieve greater storage efficiency (where the majority of virtualization is today). You want to be more efficient with physical resources. Virtualization delivers the promise of SAN benefits. It allows you to more efficiently distribute storage to applications and servers. For example, you might have one server that is only using 30 percent of the capacity attached to it. Another server is out of capacity about every three months. You have to keep adding resources to that server. A more efficient way to solve this capacity issue is to allocate the unused resources from the first server to the second server. Virtualization lets you do this easier and in a more flexible manner.
• To simplify storage management. For example, your database is consuming data at an alarming rate, outstripping the storage that has been physically allocated to it. You can add more storage to it, but how do you make the new storage look like a seamless expansion of the data it already has? Virtualization let's you achieve this.
• For configuration flexibility. Virtualization gives you the flexibility to change configurations to match business needs -- mapping physical resources to match performance and other storage requirements. You can arrange the configuration to look the way it needs to look for specific application requirements. For example, one application requires super-fast access. Another application requires absolute security. A third application just needs storage -- and a lot of it. You can configure your device and storage metrics to meet all these various application requirements. Virtualization insulates you from changes, translating into a lower overall total cost of ownership (TCO).

• Backup and Restore Assessment
• Backup and Restore Architecture
• Backup and Restore Implementation
• Data Replication
• Extended Connectivity Architecture
• Extended Connectivity Implementation
• Storage Area Network Architecture and Implementation Service