Product Specifications; Product Overview - Sun Microsystems StorageTek 9985V Manual

Product Overview

Sun StorageTek 9985V is a comprehensive and fully integrated enterprise storage services platform that
enables customers to achieve the highest levels of availability and performance in the industry with the lowest
TCO. It is an evolution of the ST9990 with refinements to existing technology and additional new
functionality, with higher system performance to further differentiate it from the competition. Building on the
proven technical superiority and industry thought leadership established by the ST9990 with its unique
embedded virtualization, 100% Data Availability Guarantee, Logical Partitioning, Universal Replicator,
Dynamic Provisioning, and a proven massively scalable crossbar switch architecture; Sun StorageTek 9985V
is an evolution of those capabilities with greater performance, scalability and new functionality. New integrated
capabilities for thin provisioning, FICON attachment for external storage, and enhancements to its embedded
virtualization will further demonstrate how Sun StorageTek 9985V is the most comprehensive and fully
integrated enterprise storage platform on the market. When contrasted with IBM and EMC's piece-meal
approach of separate switch-appliance based virtualization appliances and additional layers of software to
manage, move and copy data, Sun StorageTek 9985V provides the industry's most fully integrated
combination of enterprise-proven hardware and software technologies that unify and simplify the delivery of
universal data and storage services across heterogeneous storage platforms. Key features and benefits:
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Provides the Tiered Storage foundation that enables Data Lifecycle Management - The ST9985V
Universal Storage Platform is ideal for customers who wish to deploy a Data Lifecycle Management
solution across multiple differentiated tiers of storage to reduce costs and improve efficiency by
enabling them to match the value of their data to the type of storage it is kept on. The ST9985V enables
the customer to manage a pool of heterogeneous tiered storage from a single console and move data
non-disruptively between storage tiers as the value of the data or the usage model changes over time to
maximize resource utilization and reduce costs. Customers can exploit all of ST9985V's benefits to
build a tiered storage infrastructure internally or in combination with externally attached storage. New
with ST9990V and ST9985V is the ability to attach external storage via FICON to enable a simpler and
smoother migration path or tiered storage infrastructure for mainframe customers. With embedded
virtualization and dynamic application data mobility solutions like HiCommand Tiered Storage
Manager, customers can continually adjust their storage infrastructure to their changing business needs.
HiCommand Tuning Manager and HiCommand Device Manager enable customers to continually
monitor and forecast their storage infrastructure needs. ShadowImage In-System Replication and
Universal Replication provide scalable data protection solutions that have proven to meet the most
stringent business continuance and compliance requirements of the world's largest financial
institutions.
● Simplifies Storage Management – Customers with multiple storage systems who wish to reduce their
storage management complexity and cost can aggregate or consolidate all of their storage into a single
storage pool with ST9985V's embedded virtualization, and exploit the benefits of common software
for data movement, replication, partitioning, and storage management across the entire heterogeneous
tiered storage pool. A rich portfolio of software solutions, coupled with the highest performing and
most reliable storage platform in the industry provide the best platform for consolidating and
simplifying storage management. Customers can manage their entire infrastructure from a single pane
of glass, or they can choose to designate multiple storage administrators who can optionally manage
only a particular set of storage resources that is accessible to them. ST9985V's unique embedded
virtualization capabilities enable customers to use ST9900 storage management and data mobility
software across an entire heterogeneous storage pool, thus dramatically simplifying the process while
reducing software and maintenance costs. New integrated Dynamic Provisioning software greatly
improves storage utilization and simplifies storage management to reduce TCO costs and eliminating
many of the service interruptions that are normally required to install and format new disk capacity.
● Provides investment protection – ST9985V customers who seek a storage technology refresh but
wish to protect the investment in their current storage systems that may or may not yet be fully
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