StorEdge™
9980 System The Sun StorEdge[tm]
9980 system provides extreme levels of performance and
capacity needed in large data center environments. This
highly available and massively scalable storage system
has a base configuration consisting of two frames: the
Control Frame and the Array Frame. The Control Frame
contains the cache and switch modules, host and drive
interfaces, disk array processors, and the service
processor. Up to four Array Frames can be supported,
each with redundant power supplies and up to 256 drives.
The system's virtualization capabilities enable storage
consolidation, which helps to reduce total cost of
ownership (TCO) by enabling connections to multiple
hosts and allows for more flexibility in configuring a
storage area network (SAN)
infrastructure. The storage system is easy to operate
and control and helps to simplify data management.
Software is available to support key storage
applications typically used in data center environments
including path management, real-time replication, and
remote mirroring for disaster recovery.