The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance family of products provides efficient file and block data services for network clients as well as a set of data services that can be applied to the data stored on the system including the following technologies:
Analytics – Enables you to dynamically observe the behavior of your system in real-time and to view the data graphically.
The ZFS Hybrid Storage Pool – Enables you to manage a variety of devices such as optional Flash-memory devices, low-power high-capacity disks, and DRAM memory as a single data hierarchy
Support for a variety of hardware
The cloud/openstack/cinder package of Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Solaris includes the Oracle ZFSSA iSCSI Cinder driver. The driver enables appliance to be used seamlessly as a block storage resource for the Cinder component. Specifically, the driver enables you to create iSCSI volumes a Cinder server can allocate to any virtual machine that is instantiated by the Nova service. To use the Oracle ZFSSA for storage, make sure first that the appliance is running at least version 2013.1.2.0 of the ZFSSA software release.