Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value

Simplicity

Flexible and efficient

It's your data. Shouldn't you be able to manage it based on your needs? Sun's vision for storage virtualization offers you solutions that make data storage simple, flexible, and efficient, enabling you to manage your data based on your availability speeds, cost per gigabyte, and the value of your data.

Reduced cost and complexity

Sun StorageTek VTL Value changes the status quo, eliminating the multiple points of management found in traditional backup solutions and replacing them with a best-in-class storage virtualization solution that provides you with a preconfigured appliance that reduces cost and complexity. The module combines a server and SATA disk storage and software in a single unit that integrates seamlessly with leading backup products and leverages the power of the Solaris Operating System (OS) and the breakthrough Solaris ZFS 128 bit file system to ensure stability and continuity.

Easy to use, easy to grow

Sun StorageTek VTL Value is easy to use and doesn’t require on-site integration of key components. What's more, as your business grows and your operations expand, your Sun StorageTek VTL Value grows with you. The same intuitive, graphical management tool is used across the entire VTL portfolio, making it easy to upgrade to other VTL products. This eliminates the need to change your processes in order to manage your growth, and enables you to maintain best practices for data protection.

Lower Costs

Fewer human resources

The simplicity and efficiency of Sun StorageTek VTL Value means you can reduce manual oversight and human intervention, lowering management costs. In fact, Sun StorageTek VTL Value customers report a 36% reduction in the use of human resources, enabling customers to reduce downtime and troubleshooting and accelerate backup performance.

What's more, with its vast capacity and impressive price/performance, Sun StorageTek VTL Value lets you defer or delay purchases of additional storage and redeploy current storage infrastructure to support other business initiatives.

Automated management protects your investment

Sun StorageTek VTL Value drives down costs with a single point of automated management for physical and virtual resources and local and remote VTL systems, preserving your existing investment in backup administration and policies.

You save with Sun Fire

Sun StorageTek VTL Value is on the Sun Fire X4500 platform, which means you enjoy the economies of scale that derive from the server’s high-volume production. In addition, the combined Solaris OS and the Solaris ZFS file system simplify implementation and storage management. For example, Sun StorageTek VTL Value uses one server node with 24 TB of disk-based capacity, while the more traditional solution uses a server, host bus adapters, and a disk system, all of which require individual management.

Trust

Your data is there when you need it

Your secondary tier data is never more valuable than when you need it. Sun StorageTek VTL Value provides you with RAID Z availability, which offers a higher level of availability than RAID 5. RAID Z eliminates the “write hole,” or the potential to lose data when backing up an array. Together with the Solaris ZFS file system, RAID Z provides virtually unlimited capacity, provable data integrity, and near-zero administration.

Powerful, reliable Sun Fire X4500 servers

Integrating state-of-the-art server and storage technologies, the Sun Fire X4500 server delivers the remarkable performance of a four-way x64 server and the highest storage density available, with 24 TB in 4U of rack space. This system also delivers incredibly high data throughput for about half the cost of traditional solutions. What's more, Sun Fire server reliability is twice the Mean Time Between Repair (MTBR) of PC servers used in other vendor’s products.

The strength of Solaris

Sun StorageTek VTL Value leverages the Solaris OS to deliver high availability and resource utilization, optimize performance, and cut costs. You can also rest assured that your data is safe with the Solaris OS, which is considered secure by U.S. agencies.