The industry-leading Sun StorageTek 9990 system provides the highest levels of performance, connectivity and availability for mission-critical environments.
Key Benefits
Innovations in extreme scalability with consistent performance, provide support for mission critical on-line applications
The heart of the Sun StorageTek 9990 system is the supercomputer crossbar switch-based architecture, which provides levels of storage consolidation previously unattainable in the industry
Virtualization of both internal and external heterogeneous storage in a single storage system improves flexibility and reduces TCO
Central resource management puts storage management, monitoring, and tuning under control of one pane of glass, simplifying storage management
Strong suite of data protection software seamlessly protects critical data
The 9990 system is designed to ensure there is no single point of failure, provide preemptive problem resolution, and support continuous operation
With 300 GB HDDs, the Sun StorageTek 9990 provides scalability to over 330 TB with consistent performance and support for up to 24,480 logical devices. The 9990 provides seamless storage growth enabling very large pools of data within a single system.
Increased Fibre Channel connectivity
The 9990 system can support up to six Fibre Channel front-end directors, each containing up to 32 2-Gb ports, for a total Fibre Channel port count of 192 - three times as many as the nearest competitor's storage system. Provides ample room to scale host connections and heterogeneous external storage connections, for TCO savings.
High-density footprint
The Sun StorageTek 9990 system accommodates up to 1152 hard disk drives in only 4 Storage Array Frames with a maximum raw capacity of 330 TB. Saves space in the data center. Lowers environmental costs.
High Performance
Bandwidth for performance
Supercomputer crossbar switch-based architecture with aggregate bandwidth of 81 GB/sec (68 GB/sec data bandwidth and 13 GB/sec control bandwidth) provides extremely high performance and throughput. Enables massive scalability of capacity, with consistent performance to meet business needs.
High speed back-end directors
Provide fast disk arrays through Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loops plus support for 2Gb/sec Fibre Channel Loops, matching the high speed of the disk drives. Eliminates performance bottlenecks.
Advanced Virtualization
Virtual Partition Manager
Supports the logical partitioning of ports, cache, and disk capacity (parity groups) on the Sun StorageTek 9990 system to create independently managed Virtual Private Storage Machines. Provides better resource usage and lowers operational costs.
Host Storage Domains and SANtinel Software
Allows host pooling at the World Wide Name (WWN) level, assures authorized access to Logical Units (LUs), provides heterogeneous access, and supports advanced security options. Optimizes connectivity.
Support for heterogeneous connectivity and management
Provides native support for ESCON, FICON, and 2 Gb/sec Fibre Channel (FC) and for SAN and direct-attach storage. Simplifies physical connectivity and management and increases productivity.
Strong Suite of Storage Management Software
HiCommand Storage Area Management software
Using a highly intuitive graphical user interface puts storage management, monitoring, and tuning information on one screen, simplifying storage management. Multiple port paths allow multiple connections via a single port, reducing required port count. Reduces storage management activities allowing IT personnel to focus on more productive work.
Strong suite of data protection software
Data Link Manager, TrueCopy Remote Replication and ShadowImage In-System Replication software, seamlessly protect mission critical information, safeguard host paths and improve backup and recovery with rapid replication capabilities. Enhance business continuity, eliminate outage-related data loss and dramatically reduce recovery times.
Reliability, Availability & Serviceability
RAS by design
With full fault-tolerance for all critical components and redundant components, "call-home" capability, and data cache mirroring, the 9990 system is designed to ensure that there is no single point of failure, provide preemptive problem resolution, rapid repair, and improve availability.
Non-disruptive firmware updates
Demanding OLTP (on-line transaction processing) environments simply cannot be impacted by system service requirements. Updating firmware while maintaining continuous operations is a key capability of the 9990. The system provides the ability to perform seamless, dynamic u-code updates, delivering truly nondisruptive service.
