Introducing Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System The industry s most intelligent flash storage The digital revolution continues unabated, forming an information universe that s growing exponentially and is set to increase by 20 times today s size by 2020 to a staggering 44 zettabytes 1. Companies that will succeed in this new world are the digital masters that can take full advantage of the massive amounts of data they collect every day. As an IT professional, you see this first hand and may be overwhelmed by having to come up with ways to store, protect, and make this data available for real time analysis and actionable intelligence 24/7. Overcoming these storage obstacles is crucial if you want to master your digital world. And you need to act fast. You can t stop data growth, but just keeping up isn t an option. You need a storage strategy that enables your company to grow and stay ahead of competitors. You may have already tried a number of vendor-proposed solutions, ranging from expensive, underperforming legacy disk-based storage systems retrofitted with flash, to not quite enterprise-ready all-flash point products that were hard to integrate into your infrastructure, and even software-defined storage where you spent your time on the R&D, component sourcing, QA, and integration that vendors traditionally managed. But how can you run your database faster, guarantee application performance, and automate processes while cutting costs? The answer lies in Oracle s flagship enterprise-class SAN storage platform: Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System. 1 IDC s Digital University Study, April 2014
BIG QUESTIONS How do I keep pace with exponential data growth? How do I run my applications and database faster? A SIMPLE ANSWER: Intelligent, efficient, economical flash storage from Oracle You need high-performance, scalable storage that will not only evolve and adapt as your data grows, but also empower you to overcome the challenges of increasingly virtualized environments, faster servers and scale-out applications, and latency-sensitive applications that you manage right now. You need flash storage but not all the time. How can I guarantee application performance and meet SLAs? If your storage were smart and self-optimizing, and could deliver QoS at a granular level, you d be perfectly aligned. With the launch of [Oracle] FS1, Oracle seems to have built just that. Steve Duplessie, ESG. September 2014 How do I automate time-consuming manual tasks? How do I efficiently consolidate SAN storage and deploy ITaaS? How do I spend less on storage? Oracle has been a leader in flash technology innovation since 2008. And we have a solution to make you a digital master. Built upon five generations of flash hardware and software expertise, the Oracle FS1 automatically delivers the flash performance your critical applications hot data needs while providing you with the option to take advantage of the economics of disk to store lower priority data. Co-engineered with Oracle servers, operating systems, applications and databases, Oracle FS1 provides unique functionality that delivers significant business value. When deployed in conjunction with Oracle Database 11gR2 and 12c, Oracle FS1 delivers net incremental business-enabling, cost-saving, efficiency-maximizing, and performance-enhancing capabilities. With the Oracle FS1, you can consolidate storage while achieving predictable performance for multiple diverse workloads in enterprise computing or multitenant environments.
The most intelligent flash storage system in the industry QoS Plus is Oracle s patented Quality of Service for storage, a policy-based feature incorporating business priority and performance optimization with sub-lun automatic tiering across up to four tiers of flash and disk all in one simple management framework. The approach also divides data into fixed blocks to build a heat map of hot, warm and cold data. It continuously maps, evaluates, and adapts to changing access patterns, moving blocks, promoting to flash or demoting them to disk media based on the application s business-priority and SLAs. And, Oracle s auto-tiering technology achieves unmatched levels of granularity 640KB blocks allowing better heat level distinction and 400x more efficient placement of data into appropriate tiers than competitive systems. With QoS Plus delivering flash performance only when you need it, and automatically moving data to more economical media when you don t based on business value not on a first in-first out model like other systems your storage system responds to your business priorities and actual data usage with highly granular efficiency. Rapidly learning from, and adapting to, what your business wants and needs, FS1 is the first flash storage system that dynamically restructures storage pools and optimizes $/IOP and $/GB on-the-fly. Furthermore, Storage Domains enable you to create virtual storage machines within an Oracle FS1, each with their own QoS Plus settings, isolating applications from each other to meet stringent SLAs and avoid penalties. By leveraging Oracle FS1 s Storage Domains, you can lower operational expenses as you consolidate multiple SAN arrays, reducing management, power, cooling, and space costs. Storage Domains: Virtualized Storage Machines Application Types FS1 Option for Physical Data Separation Business Priorities Archive Low Medium High Premium ERP/OLTP Production Oracle Databases Oracle Fusion Applications Oracle Databases Email Development and Test File & Print Data Mining Web/Edge Video Streaming Backup Archive All-Flash Domains Performance SSDs Capacity SSDs Mixed Media Domains Capacity SSDs Performance HDDs All-HDD Domains Performance HDDs Capacity HDDs
THE ORACLE FS1 DIFFERENCE Oracle FS1 is Enterprise-grade SAN storage The Oracle FS1 is designed with enterprise-grade hardware and software features to provide maximum uptime, data availability, and application access. These features deliver rapid failover capabilities; warm start technology for upgrades and error containment; no single point of failure; application-to-storage data integrity verification; and optional local or remote replication. The most scalable Flash storage system in the industry Thanks to an all-new scale-out architecture, FS1-2 offers up to 3.6 petabytes (PB) of all-flash storage, or 7PB of flash in a 16-node scale-out configuration providing over a million IOPs of performance, and between three and 10 times the flash capacity of comparative solutions. Extensive, proven data services included with FS1 While all-flash startups offer few, immature data services, and established vendors charge a la carte, all in-box data services are standard features of the FS1 included in the base system price. For example, FS1 comes with a complete suite of management software, including QoS Plus, Storage Domains, and Application Profiles. Data protection and data availability features include a full suite of copy services, read/write clones, and applicationconsistent recovery with Data Protection Manager. To get an equivalent set of data management services from one of our competitors would cost $225,000. In contrast, FS1 s data services cost $0. That s quite a CAPEX savings with FS1.
THE ORACLE FS1 DIFFERENCE The most cost-effective flash storage system of its kind Maximizing the power of flash, while exploiting the economics of disk storage, the Oracle FS1 delivers the lowest cost per IOP and per terabyte. With the ability to consolidate multiple storage arrays, it can lower operational expenses in management, power, cooling and space. Plus, all of the necessary software is included at no extra fee. Purpose-built to make flash storage extremely efficient FS1 manages data placement dynamically, in real-time, with minimal administrator intervention. Its multi-level, dynamic virtualization allows for optimal resource allocation. And it moves data in 640KB segments which means it s 400x more efficient in preserving valuable flash resources that other vendors waste. Co-engineered with Oracle Database and applications Engineered alongside Oracle Database and applications, FS1 has been proven to reduce storage requirements by up to 40 percent and speed queries by up to 5x. That s because we designed our solutions to work together from the onset giving you access to Oracle-only features such as Hybrid Columnar Compression and Automatic Data Optimization. In addition, Oracle FS1 comes with predefined Application Profiles that provide tuned and tested out-of-the-box storage optimization for Oracle Database and key enterprise applications. With one click you can reduce the time to set up, provision and deploy Oracle Database and applications with a minimum amount of administration.
THE ORACLE FS1 DIFFERENCE Designed to disrupt the economics of the storage industry Large-scale ITaaS. The cloud. New business technologies have exploded technologies that can revolutionize the way your organization works. With the extreme security and granular SLA management within Storage Domains, you can set up dedicated virtual storage machines for users, applications, or companies making Oracle FS1 an ideal platform for private, hybrid, and public clouds. We believe your storage solution shouldn t hold you back in deploying game-changing IT advancements, which is why we offer optimized multi-dimension economics, no additional cost for proven advanced data services, secure multi-tenancy and service prioritization. Totally unique Oracle FS1 is one-of-a-kind: delivering the combination of data movement based on business priority, granular auto-tiering across four tiers of media, and secure multitenancy with one storage system. Promising maximum uptime with rapid failover and no single point of failure, as well as simplified tools to remove human error, FS1 offers unrivalled business benefits. Become a digital master With so much intelligence, capacity and speed, enterprises of all kinds stand to benefit from the Oracle FS1 storage system.reducing costs and risk, there are productivity, efficiency and economy gains to be realized across your organization. With Oracle FS1 you can master your digital world.
Where Oracle FS1 really shines Oracle Database Shared Enterprise Storage Multi-App Shared Storage, Secure Multi-Tenancy; Multi-Tenant Databases OLTP Enterprise ITaaS Cloud Service Providers/ Managed Service Providers (CSPs/ MSPs) SAN Consolidation; Application Consolidation Video Surveillance/ Content Lifecycle Management The new Oracle FS1 is like no other array we ve ever seen on the market. Not only is the system engineered specifically for Oracle software, but also it s uniquely optimized for both performance and cost, depending on the workload. With builtin orchestration, the array is designed to dramatically speed deployment and simplify ongoing tuning. In addition, secure multitenant domains together with extremely high levels of storage allocation granularity supports a unique business-led QoS. Dave Vellante, President, Wikibon CONNECT WITH US Discover more about Oracle s industry-leading FS1 Flash storage system and how it can accelerate your time to actionable intelligence and better business decisions by visiting www.oracle.com/fs1 or contacting one of your Oracle sales representatives on 1-800-672-2531 Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.