With its industry-leading crossbar switch architecture, integrated storage virtualization, dynamic provisioning, logical partitioning, and universal replication, the StorageTek 9985V system enables you to simply your environment through massive consolidation while providing the highest levels of availability, scalability, and performance.
Key Benefits
Virtualization and heterogeneous storage consolidation reduce cost and complexity
Thin provisioning improves storage utilization
Logical partitioning ensures security and application service levels
Crossbar architecture maximizes performance and availability
Universal replication improves business continuity
The StorageTek 9985V's integrated storage virtualization capabilities enable you to improve utilization and flexibility of legacy systems by aggregating internal storage and externally attached Sun and third-party storage systems (EMC, HP, IBM, and others) into a single, flexible, virtual pool, simplifying management and reducing TCO. Up to 96 PB of heterogeneous storage can now be managed via a single console and a common set of StorageTek 9985V tools.
Sun StorageTek Universal Volume Manager software enables up to 96 PB of non-disruptive data migration across heterogeneous environments within the virtualized pool without risk. The StorageTek 9985V also fully support VMware ESX for added flexibility and further TCO reduction
Tiered Storage Management
Enables data lifecycle management and lowers costs
Sun StorageTek Tiered Storage Manager software provides automatic data migration across an internal and external pool of tiered storage. It creates a foundation for a tiered storage infrastructure that enables data lifecycle management utilizing new and existing legacy systems. This better aligns information value to storage tiers and greatly lowers enterprise wide storage costs.
Virtual Partitioning
Optimizes performance and improves resource usage
Sun StorageTek Virtual Partition Manager software creates up to 8 independently managed virtual storage systems by logically partitioning all the key StorageTek 9985V storage resources, including cache, disk and IO into separate secure volumes. These independent virtual storage systems offer a synergistic link to create virtual storage systems, enabling greater security and performance optimization. So you can better match application requirements to storage attributes, improve resource usage, consolidate storage, and lower operational costs.
Thin Provisioning
Lower TCO
Sun StorageTek Dynamic Provisioning software provides enterprise-level thin provisioning, enabling you to reduce the overall cost of storage by deploying less physical capacity initially and adding more non-disruptively, as needed. This greatly improves storage utilization and reduces power and cooling requirements while allowing for just-in-time capacity upgrades when needed.
Simplified provisioning
As a result of this just-in-time method, storage allocations can exceed the amount of storage that is physically installed. The software also decouples the provisioning of storage to an application from the physical addition of storage capacity to the storage system, simplifying the provisioning process and enabling non-disruptive capacity upgrades.
With Dynamic Provisioning software, application storage provisioning is simpler, faster, and less demanding than traditional provisioning. You can draw from the Dynamic Provisioning pool without immediately adding physical disks. When the time comes to add physical storage, you can simply and non-disruptively install additional disks by adding them to the Dynamic Provisioning disk pool.
Mission-Critical Availability and Scalability
Crossbar architecture maximizes reliability
As in the StorageTek 9990V, the StorageTek 9985V's market-proven, fourth-generation Universal Star Network crossbar switch architecture is designed to provide the highest level of performance and reliability. With no single point of failure, instant data access, fault-tolerant critical and redundant components, "call-home" capability, and data cache mirroring, the StorageTek 9985V ensures non-disruptive service and 24/7 data protection. What's more, the StorageTek 9985V's powerful suite of software tools ensures that your system will keep your business up and running with total availability.
Seamless, multidimensional scalability
In addition to providing 100% availability, the crossbar architecture enables multidimensional scalability, including capacity, bandwidth, connectivity, workload mix, and embedded applications. As the need for capacity increases, the system lets you leverage your investment and scale up seamlessly without disrupting mission-critical business applications and without affecting performance. This means faster information access and faster conversion of information to knowledge that you can act on to meet your business objectives.
Advanced business continuity
Data replication is key to business continuity, maximizing uptime and enabling disaster recovery. The ability to replicate effectively in any environment over any distance without data loss is critical.
Sun StorageTek Universal Replication software goes beyond traditional replication to achieve unmatched data protection. Able to asynchronously replicate over any distance in a heterogeneous environment, the software enables you to significantly lower the cache and resource consumption of the primary storage system. In addition, the new delta resynch feature coupled with three-datacenter multi-hop support, provide the most concurrent multi-site replication capability and enhanced data protection available. Together, these features make Sun StorageTek Universal Replicator software one of the best solutions for enterprises with zero or near-zero recovery point and time objectives.
Sun StorageTek Universal Replicator software uses performance-optimized disk-based journaling and pull-style replication engine to help mitigate link failures. This prevents data loss even in the event of a communication breakdown and reduces costs by improving bandwidth utilization.
Multi Platform Support and Flexibility
You're assurance of total connectivity
The StorageTek 9985V system supports all major open and mainframe systems, is compatible with multiple protocols, including 48 Fibre Channels, 24 FICON, 24 ESCON port, and future NAS support.
Configuration flexibility
The StorageTek 9985V is a fully integrated enterprise storage and/or virtualization solution in a flexible, modular package.
It can serve as both a diskless virtualization engine supporting up to 96 PB of heterogeneous external storage or a fully integrated, full-service enterprise storage solution in a standard 19-inch rack. The embedded virtualization controller can support both open system and mainframe virtualization with up to 96 PB of Fibre Channel- or FICON-based external storage systems.
Powerful Suite of Management Software
Sun StorageTek HiCommand Tuning Manager
Sun StorageTek HiCommand Tuning Manager Software maps, monitors, analyzes, and reviews storage network resources, maximizing storage utilization, improving storage performance and capacity management.
Sun StorageTek HiCommand Device Manager
Sun StorageTek HiCommand Device Manager software allows you to manage storage resources from a single, central platform, reducing operational costs.
StorageTek Dynamic Provisioning
StorageTek Dynamic Provisioning software allows you to allocate storage to an application without actually having the physical storage, improving utilization and enabling you to do more with less.
Sun StorageTek Universal Replicator
Data replication is key to ensuring business continuity, maximizing uptime, and enabling disaster recovery StorageTek 9990 Universal Replicator goes beyond traditional replication to achieve unmatched data protection with any-to-any replication, journaling and pull technology.
Sun StorageTek ShadowImage In-System Replication
Sun StorageTek ShadowImage In-System Replication Software uses high-speed, non-disruptive local mirroring to rapidly create multiple copies of mission-critical data within all Sun StorageTek 9985V systems, in both mainframe and open-system environments.
Sun StorageTek Virtual Partition Manager
Sun StorageTek Virtual Partition Manager software enables the logical partitioning of ports, cache, and disk capacity on a Sun StorageTek 9985V system and any attached, virtualized systems to create up to 8 independently managed Virtual Private Storage Machines.
Sun StorageTek Universal Volume Manager
Simplified management is a key component of large-scale data storage consolidation. Sun StorageTek Universal Volume Manager software allows you to manage multiple storage systems under a single point of control.
Sun StorageTek HiCommand Tiered Storage Manager
Sun StorageTek HiCommand Tiered Storage Manager lets you store and manage data according to its current business value and to satisfy quality of service and cost requirements as they change over time.
