Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array

Unprecedented Performance

World record performance

The Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's blazing performance delivers over 1.6 million read and 1.2 million write IOPS to accelerate applications quickly and efficiently while consuming very little power or space.

It's ideal for heavy read and write I/O workload applications, such as Oracle OLTP databases and their indexes where I/O performance, high transactional throughput, and low latency are most critical to improving business productivity, efficiency and cost.

Over 1.6M IOPS

The Sun Storage F5100's unique high-performance and high-density design, delivers the I/O performance of over 3,000 15K RPM disk drives in just 1RU of space to quickly and efficiently reduce latency and eliminate storage-related I/O bottlenecks that slow down applications.

Improves application response times

Based on high-performance, high-reliability Sun FlashFire SLC technology, the Sun Storage F5100 delivers maximum amounts of I/O performance with minimum amounts of power and space to improve application response times . The array's 64 SAS lanes, 4 domains and SAS zoning, assures maximum performance throughput and configuration flexibility for easy deployment and scalability.

Unmatched Power and Space Efficiency

Reduced power, space, and cooling costs

The Sun Storage F5100 reduces space, energy and storage costs with the best IOPS/GB, IOPS/watt and IOPS/$ storage efficiency. With just 300 watts of average power, it uses less than 1/100th the space and power of traditional drives for the same performance level, enabling you to reduce operating costs up to 90%.

What’s more, the Sun Storage F5100 can virtually eliminate the need for massive pools of costly and power-hungry 15K RPM mechanical disk drives. Instead, you can deploy more economical high-capacity disk drives to optimize your storage efficiency, improve server utilization and reduce cost while improving performance.

High reliability

The Sun Storage F5100 was designed from the ground up to deliver the highest level of reliability and data integrity, with advanced wear leveling, redundant power and cooling, host based RAID, mirroring, cache power protection and over 2 million hours MTBF Sun FlashFire Flash Modules. The system also takes advantage of the Solaris Fault Management Architecture (FMA) to quickly detect and diagnose problems before your applications are affected.

Sun FlashFire Enterprise-class Flash technology

The Sun Storage F5100 uses Sun FlashFire technology for maximum performance, write endurance, longevity and reliability. It combines non-volatile SLC enterprise-class Flash advanced ECC, sophisticated wear-leveling, bad block mapping and 25% added capacity reserve to deliver the highest lever of robustness, durability, and longevity with its Flash Modules which are rated for over 2 million hours MTBF each and higher than most enterprise disk drives.

Integrated backup protection

To assure no data loss and protect your critical applications in the event of sudden power loss, the F5100 incorporates super capacitor backed Energy Storage Modules for write cache and meta-data protection to assure highest level of data integrity.

Helps prevent data corruption

The Sun Storage F5100 supports host based mirroring provided by Oracle ASM, Solaris ZFS and others. When used with Solaris, the array takes advantage of data-integrity features in Solaris ZFS, including automatic data integrity checking and correction with block level checksums. When a corrupt block is identified, the self-healing features in Solaris ZFS will direct another copy to be written as an automatic repair, preventing silent data corruption.

Host based mirroring is available through Solars SVM, Oracle VSM, Veritas VxVM, and other software.

Easy to Use and Manage

Disk emulation

The Sun Storage F5100 is easy to install and use in new and existing computing environments. You can turbocharge your I/O intensive database applications quickly and efficiently without expensive tuning, special software or drivers. The system emulates ultra-high-performance disk drives, and is fully compatible with existing systems and applications.

Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager software

The Sun Storage F5100 comes with Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager software, which takes the complexity out of storage management, enabling you to accelerate deployment, simplify your environment, and improve utilization. CAM also provides zoning for security and configuration flexibility. CAM's Service Advisor offers proactive health checking and supports quick time to service, if needed.