Oracle has brought out the NAS system ZFS Storage ZS4-4 with the new software version OS 8.3, which enables new functionalities in particular in interplay with the Oracle Database 12c. In this way, the network storage with ZFS Analytics in company-wide mandate environments now offers a detailed view of individual PDBs (pluggable databases) within the CDB (container database), which can significantly facilitate optimisation and fault tracing.
Overall, the NAS opens up a range of approaches for improving performance. Thanks to coordinated parallel development, ZFS Storage Appliance Analytics and new Intelligence Storage Protocol 1.1, expenditures on problems in the interplay of databases and storage alone can be reduced by around two thirds.
The Oracle NAS ZFS ZS4-4 is based on the HSP (hybrid storage pool) architecture and an extremely high-performance SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) operating system. Since with 50 percent more central memory (3 TB) and currently 120 CPU cores it can operate around 90 percent of all IOs from the RAM, it is able to achieve a noticeable improvement in performance: With a throughput of 30 Gbit/s, the Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4 is more than twice as quick as its predecessors.