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Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS11-2 Racked System
High-end · all-flash / hybrid (ssd + hdd) / disk (hdd) · dual controller - Pre-cabled, factory-tested ZS11-2 HA configuration that bundles replication, cloning and encryption licences and qualifies for Oracle Platinum Services when used to back up Oracle Engineered Systems such as Exadata.
| Platform | |
|---|---|
| OEM | Oracle |
| Family | ZFS Storage Appliance |
| Class | High-end |
| Architecture | Dual controller (HA pair) |
| Status | Current |
| Released | 2025 |
| Operating system | Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance OS8.8 (OS8.8.81 or later required) |
| Controllers | 2 |
| Nodes | n/a |
| Cache / memory | 4,600 GB |
| Availability | n/a |
| Capacity and media | |
| Media | All-flash, Hybrid (SSD + HDD), Disk (HDD) |
| Drive types | SAS SSD, NL-SAS HDD, SAS HDD (10K/15K) |
| Drive note | Data drives sit in external DE3 shelves: DE3-24C (4U, 3.5-inch: 22/26 TB 7,200 rpm SAS-3 HDD, 7.68 TB SAS-3 SSD) and DE3-24P (2U, 2.5-inch: 1.2 TB 10,000 rpm SAS-3 HDD, 7.68 TB SAS-3 SSD); 200 GB SAS-3 SSDs serve as read/write flash accelerators. Controllers carry only 2 x 3.84 TB NVMe boot drives. |
| Flash drive sizes | 7.68 TB |
| HDD sizes | 1.2, 22, 26 TB |
| Maximum drives | 1152 |
| Controller enclosure | 2U |
| Expansion | Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C (4U, 24 x 3.5-inch) and DE3-24P (2U, 24 x 2.5-inch); up to 48 shelves with 20 or 24 drives each (20-drive shelves take 1-4 read/write SSD accelerators) - 24 bays, 4U, up to 48 |
| Raw capacity | 153 TB - 30 PB |
| Cluster maximum | n/a |
| Effective maximum | n/a |
| Data reduction | n/a |
| Protection | Striping, Mirroring, Triple mirroring, Single parity, Double parity, Triple parity, Wide stripes |
| Protection note | ZFS end-to-end checksums on data and metadata with automatic validation (self-healing); Hybrid Storage Pool caches up to 4.6 TB DRAM plus up to 1.4 PB read flash cache; active-active controller clustering for failover. |
| Performance and connectivity | |
| Maximum IOPS | n/a |
| Maximum throughput | n/a |
| Latency | n/a |
| Conditions | Factory-assembled and tested dual-controller HA cluster. Raw capacity: 153 TB to 8.8 PB all-flash, 520 TB to 30 PB disk (PB = 1000 TB). Racked System memory options 512 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB or 2.3 TB per controller. host_ports_max = 48 x 10GBASE-T; other per-system maxima 24 x 10GbE, 24 x 25GbE, 24 x 32Gb FC, 24 x 40GbE, 16 x 100GbE. power_w is the typical figure for the Racked System (5,714 W max). Network options include 100GbE NICs and switches for Exadata connectivity. |
| Protocols | NFS, SMB / CIFS, FTP, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, S3 object, OpenStack Swift |
| Fibre Channel | 32 Gb |
| Ethernet | 100 GbE |
| Host ports | 48 |
| Limits | |
| Volumes / LUNs | n/a |
| File systems | n/a |
| Snapshots | n/a |
| Management and support | |
| Management | Browser UI (BUI), CLI, RESTful API, DTrace Analytics, Oracle Enterprise Manager plug-in |
| Power | 3,784 W |
| Positioned for | Databases, Backup target, Virtualization, File shares, Mission-critical |
| Warranty | n/a |
| Design terms | Storage pool · LUN · Initiator group · Remote replication |
| Data services | |
✓ Deduplication
✓ Compression
✓ Thin provisioning
✓ Snapshots
✓ Clones
✓ Asynchronous replication
? Synchronous replication
? Active-active / metro
✓ Encryption at rest
? Immutable snapshots
? Ransomware detection
✓ Quality of service
? Automated tiering
? Cloud tiering
? VMware vVols
? Kubernetes CSI
✓ Native file services
✓ Native object (S3)
? Non-disruptive upgrades
✕ Scale-out
✓ stated by the OEM · ✕ not offered · ? not stated | |
| Source | |
| Product page | https://www.oracle.com/storage/nas/ |
| Datasheet | https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/storage/oracle-zfs-storage-appliance-datasheet.pdf |