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HUAWEI OceanStor V3 SeriesConverged Storage Systems Employing a Cloud-Oriented Architecture
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Trend and challenges of
enterprises' IT systems
Converged storage systems employing
a cloud-oriented architecture
Success stories
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Challenges facing traditional IT systems as services skyrocket
Complex service deployment: silo-style system construction, slowing down the rollout of new services
Difficult data exchange: a variety of services, making data communication and sharing difficult
High O&M costs: a diversity of devices, lowering the computing and storage resource utilization
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Service 1
Server
Storage
Service 2
Server
Storage
Service 3
Server
Storage
…
Server
Storage
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Enterprises' IT systems start employing a cloud-oriented
architecture
Cloud-based IT system
Cloud-based IT systems, enabling the on-demand
allocation of computing and storage resources
Service 1 Service 2 Service 3 …
Server
Storage
Server
Storage
Server
Storage
Open
Sharing
Simple
As the hardware differences of IT systems are
shielded, a variety of services can be easily
deployed and flexibly expanded.
Computing and storage resource pools enable
resources to be flexibly allocated and data to freely
flow.
Devices from multiple vendors can be managed in
a unified manner.
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Service 1 Service 2 Service 3 …
Server Server Server Server
Server differences are shielded, enabling services
to deployed easily and quickly.
Computing resources can be flexibly allocated
based on service requirements.
A wide range of data protection policies can be
provided based on site requirements.
The unified management platform enables
computing resources to be flexibly scheduled.
Storage Storage Storage Storage
The computing layer has been cloudified
Cloud-based computing layer
Resources can be allocated on demand on the computing layer but
cannot on the storage layer.
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Storage Storage Storage Storage
Cloud-based storage layer
On-demand storage resource allocation
Storage Storage
Storage Storage
Low space utilization
Confined data flowing
Complex management
Slow service deployment
How does the storage layer adapt to the cloudification trend?
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Trend and challenges of
enterprises' IT systems
Converged storage systems employing
a cloud-oriented architecture
Success stories
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Investment
Time
SAN
storage
NAS
storage
SSD
storage
x
On-demand: a big challenge facing traditional storage systems
SAN
storage
SAN
storage
NAS
storage
SAN
storage
NAS
storage
SSD
storage
SAN
storage
NAS
storage
SSD
storage
On-demand service
deployment
On-demand
performance and
capacity
On-demand data
protection
On-demand
storage
resource
allocation
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The converged OceanStor V3 series tackles challenges
in cloudification
OceanStor V3 series
OceanStor V3 series: converged storage systems that employ OceanStor OS
Convergence of
primary storage
systems
Convergence of
backup storage
systems
Convergence of
third-party
storage systems
Convergence of primary
and backup storage
systems
Convergence of high-end,
mid-range, and entry-level
storage systems
Convergence of
HDDs and SSDs
Convergence of
SAN and NAS
Convergence of
heterogeneous storage
systems
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Convergence of SAN and NAS — On-demand service deployment
NAS + SAN
SAN NAS Or
NAS
SAN
Traditional storage OceanStor V3 series
Block- and file-level data storage is unified, requiring no
additional file engines, simplifying deployment, and
reducing purchase cost.
The efficiency of databases and file sharing services is
notably improved.
Two storage devices are required to provide SAN
and NAS services.
The efficiency of databases and file sharing
services cannot be maximized.
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Convergence of SSDs and HDDs — On-demand performance
and capacity
Traditional storage OceanStor V3 series
HDD storage system SSD storage system HDD SSD
To choose large-capacity and cost-
effective traditional HDD storage
systems or to choose high-
performance SSD storage systems?
This is a question.
All-flash arrays are optimized to put the high performance
and low latency advantages of SSDs into full play.
HDDs and SSDs are converged to meet the performance
requirements of complex services.
HDD pool SSD pool
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Convergence of primary and backup storage — On-demand
data protection
Traditional storage OceanStor V3 series
Backup
software on
the server
Primary
storage
Backup
storage
Backup server + backup software + backup storageBackup storage is perfectly integrated into primary storage,
requiring no additional backup software and reducing
your purchase cost.
Primary storage and backup storage are managed in a
unified manner, simplifying the O&M of backup solutions.
High cost and complex network
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Convergence of high-end, mid-range, and entry-level
storage systems — On-demand data value
Traditional storage OceanStor V3 series
High-
end
Entry-
level
Mid-
range
High-
end
Entry-
level
Mid-
range
Diverse architectures High-end, mid-range, and entry-level storage systems
interwork, enabling free data flow.
High-end, mid-range, and entry-level storage
systems are managed in a unified manner, multiple
times the efficiency.
Different operation habits
No data flow
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Convergence of heterogeneous storage systems — On-demand
storage resource allocation
Traditional storage OceanStor V3 series
Heterogeneous devices and diverse
operating systems
Storage systems from different vendors have
diverse models and run different operating systems.
Legacy storage systems are reused, protecting the original
investment.
Pools of third-party storage resources simplify storage
management and achieve cloud-based storage.Complex management and low efficiency
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HUAWEI OceanStor V3 series storage systems
Software-defined storage, simplifying services
Unified software/hardware/management platform
5300 V3 5500 V3 5600 V3 5800 V3 6800 V3 6900 V3
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Average
Improvement
HUAWEI
OceanStor
V3 Series
IBM
V7000NetApp
FAS8000 EMC
VNX8000
Number of
controllers
Storage capacity
Cache capacity
Number of host
ports
2
6 PB
256 GB
72
8
6 PB
128 GB
88
8
1.92 PB
64 GB
64
8
8 PB
512 GB
160
100%
150%
300%
200%
HUAWEI OceanStor V3
series storage systems
Industry-leading specifications
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End-to-end "highway"
Fast
host ports
16 Gbit/s Fibre Channel
56 Gbit/s InfiniBand
Easily adaptive to video storage and large-file processing scenarios
Bandwidth improvement by100%
Fast
internal bus
PCIe 3.0
Fast
back-end ports
12 Gbit/s SAS
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Software-defined accelerator card
Innovative smart cards
APP APP APP
An accelerator card supports deduplication, compression,
or encryption. Users can configure accelerator cards
based on site requirements.
Hardware is accelerated, enabling zero CPU resource
consumption.
An interface card supports a variety of protocols.
Users can configure interface cards based on
site requirements.
Support for 16 Gbit/s Fibre Channel, 10GE TOE,
and 10 Gbit/s FCoE.
Software-defined interface card
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Mobile
managementData recovery
management
Third-party
storage integration
End-to-end visual management
One graphical management interface,
enabling the unified management of all
storage devices
Quick start and master in minutes
Two-step capacity expansion, which takes
15s
Five-step system configuration, which takes
40s
Reducing the storage configuration
time by 50%
Simple management platform
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Open for cooperation to seamlessly fit into IT environments
Application
Operating
system
Hypervisor
Server
Network
Storage
300+ technical and configuration guides
400,000+ authenticated IT application scenarios
500+ certificates
6000+ pages of the interoperability matrix
Veritas
Simpana
CDP
SMI-S
ERP
Database & RAC
Windows
Mac OS X
SLES
AIX
RHEL Solaris
OLE
vSphere XenServer Hyper-V OVM
SPARCMac ProSPARCx86Power\x86 X86
HBA & Switch HBA HBA Switch Switch
NSSSVC
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Trend and challenges of
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Converged storage systems employing
a cloud-oriented architecture
Success stories
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The only vendor engaged in the open platform construction
of ICBC in 2013
Customer Pain Points
Solution
Skyrocketing unstructured data posed an urgent
requirement on storage systems.
Massive unstructured data was stored in mid-range
and even high-end storage systems, resulting in low
return on investment (ROI).
The lifecycle management of service data needed to
be improved.
Employed OceanStor enterprise unified storage
systems to classify services in terms of service
levels and application environments.
Tiered storage resources and provided different
storage tiers for different services, improving data
lifecycle management.
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Safeguarding Golden Auditing Project of China National
Audit Office
Customer Pain Points
Solution
Central management and protection must be provided for
service data of China National Audit Office (NAO)'s Beijing
headquarters and its 18 resident offices.
Service data generated by NAO's functional departments
was structured data, and must be stored on storage systems
featuring high reliability and robust performance.
The storage systems must support unified storage and could
provide unified disaster recovery services for resident offices.
Employed OceanStor enterprise unified storage systems
that support innovative 32:1 shared disaster recovery to
provide CNAO's headquarters and its 18 resident offices with
flexible and ease-of-use shared disaster recovery services.
Provided specialized data disaster recovery test services
and helped the customer periodically test and authenticate
data in the disaster recovery center.
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Assisting Hunan Local Taxation Bureau in tax reform
Customer Pain Points
Solution
30 complex service systems were working at the same
time and must be remotely protected.
Service increase requirements in the next five years
must be met.
Employed intra-city disaster recovery to safeguard
customers' service data.
Leveraged OceanStor enterprise storage systems that
are scalable up to 7 PB to fit customers' long-term plans.
OceanStor enterprise storage systems ranked No.
1 in storage performance and could easily bear 30
service systems.
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Safeguarding the social security data of 1.3 billion residents
in China
Customer Pain Points
Solution
The personal data of China's 1.3 billion residents
must be kept for 200 years as required by the law.
It was estimated that social security data would
increase to petabytes in 2018 at an annual growth rate of
50%.
24/7 stable service running must be ensured.
Consolidated four major services of Ministry of
Human Resources and Social Security of the People's
Republic of China (MOHRSS) into one storage
system.
Enabled the four services to access the same data set,
improving the work efficiency by four times.
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Optimizing China State Grid's D5000 intelligent dispatch system
Customer Pain Points
Solution
Stable, secure, and normal operating of power grid
and reliable power supplies
Efficient, secure, and stable supervisory control
and data acquisition (SCADA) data
Employed Huawei OceanStor enterprise unified
storage systems that boast 100,000 IOPS to
excellently meet the application requirements of
provincial and network dispatch databases.
Leveraged SSD acceleration to improve storage
system performance and maximize return on
investment (ROI).
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