ORACLE DATA SHEET

BACKUP AND RECOVERY FOR ORACLE

ENGINEERED SYSTEMS WITH ORACLE'S

SUN ZFS BACKUP APPLIANCE

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance

provides an integrated high-

performance backup solution for

Oracle engineered systems that reduces

backup and recovery time objectives by

more than half compared to

competitive engineered systems backup

solutions.

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance, a Cost-

Effective Platform for Disaster Recovery

Ever-growing amounts of data present system and

database administrators with a number of challenges—

the thorniest of which are associated with the complex

process of backup and recovery. Besides growing in size, today’s databases must meet

stringent data protection requirements—a task made more difficult by the significant failure

rate of backup and recovery. According to a 2008 report from the Enterprise Strategy Group

(ESG), one out of every seven backups and one out of every six recoveries fail. Without

reliable data protection and processes, mission-critical data is at risk.

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is a tested, validated and supported backup appliance

specifically tuned for Oracle engineered systems backup and recovery. The Sun ZFS Backup

Appliance has extremely fast backup and restore throughputs, ensuring that backup windows

and recovery time objectives (RTOs) are met by providing timely recovery in the event of a

disaster.

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is easily integrated with Oracle Exadata systems. License-

free data services, including snapshot and compression, drive down capital and operational

costs.

With the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance snapshot and cloning capabilities, database backups can

be used more for value-added work and provide system administrators with additional

recovery options. For example, snapshot deployment of database clones provide development,

quality assurance (QA), and other organizations with up-to-date copies of production data, and

these additional copies add yet another safeguard in the unlikely event of an outage.

High Bandwidth InfiniBand Connectivity

Oracle is leading the way with native high-bandwidth InfiniBand interconnects. The QDR

InfiniBand fabric provides high bandwidth between the Oracle Exadata database servers,

storage cells, and the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance. Backup and restore operations can be

automatically parallelized across all database nodes, Oracle Exadata storage cells, Sun ZFS

Backup Appliance channels, and controllers. This significantly reduces backup and RTOs

compared to traditional NAS storage systems.

COST-EFFECTIVE DATA

PROTECTION FOR ORACLE

ENGINEERED SYSTEMS

FEATURES

• Current support for Oracle Exadata

backup

• Native QDR InfiniBand and 10 Gb

Ethernet connectivity

• Advanced, intuitive management

tools

• Real-time analysis and diagnosis

of performance

• Data compression

• High-performance NAS storage

appliance

BENEFITS

• Superior performance—20 TB/hour

backup and 9.4 TB/hour restore

throughputs

• Cost effectiveness—lower TCO than

comparable NAS storage systems

• Simplified management—easy-to-

use management interface

• Reduced risk—end-to-end

checksumming and fault

management architecture

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Superior Performance

Because of its high bandwidth interconnects and superior processing power, the ZFS Backup

Appliance is nearly 7 times faster at Oracle Exadata backup and at least 1.6 times faster at

Oracle Exadata recovery compared to competitive engineered systems backup solutions.

Testing has shown that Oracle Exadata in a Half Rack configuration with a performance

model Sun ZFS Backup Appliance demonstrated NFS-based backup performance over

InfiniBand at a data rate of 20 TB/hr, and a restore rate of 9.4 TB/hr. The backup rate is fast

enough to completely back up an Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 in a Half Rack

configuration in less than 1.2 hours, or an Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 in a Full

Rack configuration in 2.25 hours. Like Oracle Exadata, the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is a

scalable architecture. By adding additional capacity, the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance can

currently support capacities up to 1.7 PB while maintaining balanced system performance.

Cost Effectiveness

Because the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance connects directly to Oracle Exadata's internally

managed InfiniBand network, there is no need for a media server and the associated software

licenses used in traditional backup architectures (without tape). This needless extra hardware,

software, and support can add significantly to TCO compared to a direct Sun ZFS Backup

Appliance solution.

And with the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance, a rich set of data services are included with the

system. Replication and cloning are available at additional cost. With Sun ZFS Backup

Appliance, you can achieve significantly lower TCO than EMC and NetApp. Lower TCO

means that you can afford more backup capacity than you can with competing products.

Simplified Management

Thanks to the groundbreaking intuitive user interface provided by Sun ZFS Backup

Appliance, enterprises can reduce administration time by more than 30 percent, making it the

preferred platform for Oracle Database backup and recovery. Provisioning and management is

dramatically simplified with the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance with an easy-to-use management

interface that takes the guesswork out of system installation, configuration, and tuning. In

addition, the built-in suite of software data services and communication protocols eliminates

add-on software evaluation and procurement challenges.

Oracle’s DTrace Analytics provides unparalleled visibility for administrators to monitor vital

system parameters that can affect backup and recovery of Oracle Exadata 2 environments.

Performance bottlenecks and other issues can be pinpointed and resolved faster than ever

before—thus minimizing adverse RTO, recovery point objective (RPO), and service-level

agreement (SLA) impacts.

Reduced Risk

Sun ZFS Backup Appliance provides data integrity features that reduce risk of lost or corrupt

data. End-to-end checksumming constantly reads and checks data to ensure that it’s correct.

Predictive self-healing capabilities maximize system availability by automatically diagnosing,

isolating, and recovering from faults. For example, Oracle’s fault management architecture

detects and diagnoses underlying problems using an extensible set of agents. When a faulty

component is discovered, self-healing features automatically take the faulty component

offline. The system also provides concise diagnostic messages that link to Oracle’s

knowledgebase, guiding administrators through corrective tasks when human intervention is

required. And industry-leading triple-parity RAID further reduces the risk of data loss.

Remote replication is available at an extra charge to facilitate disaster recovery processes. The

Sun ZFS Backup Appliance can replicate an Oracle Exadata backup set or image copy to

another Sun ZFS Backup Appliance to ensure protection from a complete loss of the primary

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site. Clustered controllers ensure access to data is not compromised during maintenance

operations or the unlikely event of a complete head failure.

Oracle Recovery Manager

Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), a command-line and Oracle Enterprise Manager–based

tool, is the preferred method for efficient backup and recovery of your Oracle Database.

Oracle RMAN provides block-level corruption detection during backup and restore. In

addition, Oracle RMAN optimizes performance and space consumption during backup with

file multiplexing and backup set compression, and it integrates with Oracle Secure Backup

and third-party media management products for tape backup.

A Range of Configurations

To meet a variety of capacity, price, and performance needs, Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup

Appliance is available in two configurations: Sun ZFS Backup Appliance HP performance

configuration and Sun ZFS Backup Appliance HC capacity configuration. Ranging in capacity

from 55 TB raw to 132 TB raw and scalable to 1.7 PB, these systems ensure that you have

sufficient hardware to meet current needs, and that you can incrementally upgrade as your

business grows.

Engineered, Sold, and Supported by the Same People Who Build Oracle

Exadata

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance for Oracle Exadata is tested, validated, and supported by

Oracle. Oracle provides a complete, open, and integrated technology stack, which provides

customers with a single-vendor solution based on open standards for their data center needs..

As a result, Oracle products can be easily adopted in existing IT environments. Oracle designs

these products to work well together. Oracle provides a wide range of services for Sun ZFS

Backup Appliance to help meet unique architecture, implementation, and support needs.

Oracle service professionals can help you mitigate the risk of downtime, data loss, and costly

delays, and they provide the expertise to ensure that vital systems are running at an optimal

level right from the start.

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Sun ZFS Backup Appliance

Included Features Details

File system Oracle Solaris ZFS (128-bit addressability)

File level protocol NFS v2/v3/v4

Data compression Four levels of data compression available

Monitoring DTrace Analytics (for system tuning and debugging); dashboard

monitoring for key system performance metrics, plug-in for Oracle

Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

Automated serviceability “Phone home” capability with automatic case creation,

configurable alerts

RAID Striping, mirroring, triple-mirroring single-parity RAID, double-

parity RAID, triple-parity RAID

Remote management HTTPS, SSH, IPMI

Snapshots Read only

Directory services NIS, AD, LDAP

Network services NTP, DHCP, SNMP v1/v2c, SMTP

Backup NDMP v3/v4, ZFS NDMP

Local Replication Replication within same ZFS Backup Appliance

Separately Licensed Features Details

Clones Writable snapshots

Remote replication

Replication from one Sun ZFS Backup Appliance to another

one1:N, N:1, manual, scheduled, continuous

Sun ZFS Backup Appliance Configurations

Key

Requirement

Maximum

Storage Capacity

Space

(Rack Units)

Write Optimized

Flash

Read Optimized

Flash

Clustered

Sun ZFS

Backup

Appliance HP

Performance

configuration for

streaming

backups and

additional

processing on

snapshots and

clones

Up to 343TB using

high performance

disks; up to 1.5PB

using high

capacity disks

3U/controller,

4U/disk shelf

292GB included,

scalable up to

1.2TB

None included Y

Sun ZFS

Backup

Appliance HC

Capacity

configuration for

streaming

backups and

additional

processing on

snapshots and

clones

Up to 1.7PB using

high capacity disks

3U/controller,

4U/disk shelf

292GB included,

scalable up to

1.2TB

None included Y

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Sun ZFS Backup Appliance Specifications

HP HC

Processor 4x 8-core 2.0 GHz

Intel® Xeon®

processors per

controller

4x 8-core 2.0 GHz

Intel® Xeon®

processors per

controller

Main memory 256 GB per

controller

256 GB per controller

Base Configurations

Configuration

options

• 55TB raw capacity

using high speed

(15,000 RPM) SAS-2

disks

• Supports up to 20

additional disk

shelves

• 132TB raw capacity

using high capacity

(7,200 RPM) SAS-2

disks

• Supports up to 22

additional disk

shelves

Standard and Optional Interfaces

Integrated

network

Four 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet ports

Network

connectivity

10 GB Ethernet, QDR InfiniBand

Ports per system

10 GbE/IB 4/4 4/4

Regulations1

Safety UL 60950-1 2nd Ed, EN60950-1:2006 2nd Ed,

CB Scheme with all country differences

RFI/EMI FCC CFR 47 Part 15 Subpart B Class A, EN

55022:2006+A1:2007 Class A, EN 61000-3-

11:2000, EN 61000-3-12:2005, ETSI EN 300 386

V1.4.1 (2008)

Immunity EN 55024:1998+A1:2001:+A2:2003

1In some cases, as applicable, regulatory and certification

compliance were obtained at the component level.

Certifications1

Safety

UL/cUL, CE, BSMI, GOST R, S-Mark, CSA C22.2 No.

60950-1-07 2nd Ed, CCC

EMC CE, FCC, VCCI, ICES, KCC, GOST R, BSMI Class A,

AS/NZ 3548, CCC

Other Complies with WEEE Directive (2002/96/EC) and

RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC)

1In some cases, as applicable, regulatory and certification compliance

were obtained at the component level.

Dimensions

Maximum Weight – lbs (kg) 1103 (500)

Depth – inches (mms) 47.24 (1200)

Width – inches (mms) 23.62 (600)

Height – inches (mms) 78.66 (1998)

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