Integration

Introduction

Sun ZFS Storage Appliances deliver a full suite of data protocols to communicate with a wide variety of application hosts. To improve application performance or more tightly integrate with your application environment, follow the best practices outlined in White Papers and Solutions Briefs found on the Sun Unified Storage Documentation page. For an example of how to achieve optimal results from standard protocols, review the following article, which highlights support for one specific application.

• Symantec DMP/Storage Foundation

For some applications, installing software on the application host enhances interoperability. The following articles provide an overview of how software integration can provide a better experience for storage administrators. Comprehensive documentation is packaged with each download.

• Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Plug-in for Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition

• Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Network File System Plug In for Oracle Solaris Cluster

• Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Provider For Volume Shadow Copy Service Software

• Sun Storage 7000 Management Plug-In for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Controller

• Oracle Virtual Machine Storage Connect Plug-in for the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

• Sun ZFS Storage 7000 Storage Replication Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager

• Oracle Intelligent Storage Protocol

Your appliance is also uniquely featured to seamlessly integrate with other Oracle products. For instance, the following section describes how to configure the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance as a backup target for the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

• Oracle Exadata Database Machine Backup with the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

For more information, visit the Sun Unified Storage Documentation page.