Eight Important Oracle Storage Capabilities and Database Benefits

Oracle Intelligent Storage Protocol (OISP)
OISP is a unique communications protocol that enables Oracle Database 12c to communicate dynamically with the ZFS Storage Appliance to automatically tune critical factors, including logbias and record size, for optimal database performance. With OISP, storage administrators reduce manual tuning tasks by 65 percent, it is only available for ZFS Storage Appliances.

Oracle Database Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) for Oracle Exadata and Oracle Storage 
Systems Oracle Database HCC, available only with Oracle Exadata and Oracle storage systems, enables customers to compress data 12 to 50 times, depending on usage, resulting in a 3 to 5 times reduction in storage capacity requirements. HCC combines with new features in Oracle Database 12c to provide Heat Map and Automatic Data Optimization (ADO) in Oracle Advanced Compression.

Quality of Service (QoS) Plus for FS1
QoS Plus is a policy-based virtualization feature, incorporating business priority I/O (input/output) queue management fused with sub-LUN (logical unit number) automatic tiering into one simple management framework.

Application Profiles for FS1 Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System
Comes with predefined application profiles that provide tuned and tested out-of-the-box storage optimization for Oracle Database and key enterprise applications, including non-Oracle applications such as Microsoft Exchange.

Hybrid Storage Pools 
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances leverage Hybrid Storage Pools intelligent data caching algorithm and architecture to ensure that up to 70–90 percent of “hot” I/O is processed in DRAM (in memory) — up to  44 2TB per system, frequently accessed data is cached in flash, and less-frequently accessed data is read from disk when needed. This ensures continuous and optimal storage performance and efficiency, with no enduser involvement required (refer to Chapter 2 for a full description).


Snap Management Utility
The Oracle Snap Management Utility for Oracle Database is a standalone management tool specifically engineered to work with the ZFS Storage Appliance. It provides

1.  A simple, fast, efficient, and automatic way to back up, restore, clone, and provision Oracle Databases that are stored on the ZFS Storage Appliance — all performed directly by the database administrator with a graphical user interface 
2.  One-step provisioning of database copies to accelerate development and test environments 
3.  Support for Oracle Solaris, Linux, and Windows clients and database hosts, for databases configured for NAS or SAN storage types 
4.  Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)

Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) and Oracle VM Integration 

Oracle EM is Oracle’s cross-system, global management, and monitoring tool. With Oracle EM plug-ins for engineered systems, Oracle FS1, and Oracle ZFS Storage, users can monitor and manage their entire Oracle environment from application to storage from a single pane of glass. EM plug-ins enable DBAs to monitor and manage storage resources with storage administration involvement.

Oracle Storage Archive Manager and Long-term Archiving 

Oracle StorageTek Storage Archive Manager (SAM) enables policy-based archiving and classification and provides ready access to data throughout its life cycle. 

Source: Oracle.com