Best Huawei OceanStor 18800F Enterprise Storage Systems

Best Huawei OceanStor 18800F Enterprise Storage Systems  

OceanStor 18000 series enterprise storage systems are an optimal choice for mission-critical enterprise applications. The OceanStor 18500 and OceanStor 18800 have a storage platform designed for next-generation data centers that require virtualization, hybrid cloud, thin IT, and a low carbon footprint.

These enterprise storage solutions are scalable from 2 to 16 controllers, up to 7 PB storage capacity, with a million SPC-1 IOPSTM performance.

This OceanStor 18000 series provides critical data storage for finance, government, energy, manufacturing, transport, education, and telecommunication industries.

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Huawei OceanStor 18500/18800/18800F enterprise storage systems (the OceanStor 18000 series for short) are optimal storage platforms for next-generation data centers. Secure, trusted, flexible, and efficient, the OceanStor 18000 series provides mission-critical data storage to fully address the storage needs of industries including finance, government, energy, manufacturing, transportation, education, and telecommunications.

Secure and Trusted
•Multi-controller full-redundancy architecture: load balancing and no single points of failure, ensuring stable system operation

•RAID 2.0+ disk virtualization: 20x data recovery speed and no hotspot disks, greatly improving data reliability
•Powerful disaster recovery solution: shortest RPO (0 to 5 seconds) and one-click disaster recovery management, maximizing service continuity

Flexible and Efficient
•Maximum configuration: 1,000,000 SPC-1 IOPS™, 16 controllers, 3 TB cache, and 7 PB of capacity, with on-demand scalability that meets storage needs in the next 10 years
•Fast response: the only µs-latency storage system in the industry, accelerating service processing by 10 times
•High efficiency: optimal storage efficiency, improving resource utilization by 3 times

Peerless Reliability
The OceanStor 18000 series offers incomparable reliability in terms of physical architecture, data storage, and applications to ensure service continuity.
By employing the Smart Matrix multi-controller architecture, the OceanStor 18000 series is able to provide 16 redundant controllers to maintain excellent system stability. All controllers are interconnected through
optical cables based on PCIe 2.0, supporting lossless data exchange. All components and channels are redundantly configured so that fault detection, correction, and isolation can be independently implemented on
each module or channel, further enhancing system stability.

The OceanStor 18000 series employs an innovative block virtualization technology to shorten the per-TB data reconstruction time from 10 hours to 30 minutes, both accelerating data reconstruction by 20 times and greatly enhancing data reliability. End-to-end data integrity verification is implemented based on the Protection Information (PI) technology to prevent data from being damaged.

SmartQoS and SmartPartition ensure that mission-critical services have sufficient system resources to run stably. The Hyper series data protectionsoftware provides local and remote data protection, and ensures service continuity by working with Huawei disaster recovery solutions. 

End-to-end data protection based on PI and DIX
The OceanStor 18000 series offers the PI+DIX end-to-end data integrity solution to protect data all the way from application systems, host bus adapters (HBAs), storage systems, to disks, and prevent silent data
corruption, providing customers with better QoS.

Intensity 9 earthquake resistance
The OceanStor 18000 series is the only enterprise storage product that has passed the intensity 9 earthquake resistance test held by the Communication Equipment Earthquake Resistance Performance
Quality Inspection and Testing Center, which is under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. The OceanStor 18000 series can prevent mechanical vibrations generated during the device
transportation or use from causing a device failure. Moreover, the OceanStor 18000 series can resist 90% of earthquakes for 50 years and ensure zero data loss in the event of serious earthquakes.

Predictable and manageable SSD service life
The OceanStor 18800F all-flash enterprise storage system employs innovative global wear leveling to balance the erase frequency of flash chips while reducing the erase times of solid-state drives (SSDs) that
only have a small amount of redundant space. In this way, the SSD life span is extended. Meanwhile, when most SSDs have reached their wear thresholds, the OceanStor 18800F implements unique global antiwear leveling to centralize flash erase operations onto only a few SSDs, significantly reducing the probability of multi-disk failure. The OceanStor 18800F is able to accurately predict the service life of SSDs based on
flash erase times, and uses a graphical user interface (GUI) to show SSD service life.

Incomparable Scalability and Performance
The highly scalable OceanStor 18000 series supports on-demand online capacity and performance expansion.
Built on the Smart Matrix architecture, the OceanStor 18000 series can be equipped with a maximum of 3216 disks to provide up to 7 PB of capacity. An OceanStor 18000 series storage system supports a maximum of 3 TB cache and 256 Fibre Channel or iSCSI ports.

The 4S expansion technology includes scale-up, scale-out, scale-deep, and scale-in. Scale-up increases storage capacity and performance of controllers. Scale-out enables storage performance to increase linearly
with capacity. Scale-deep consolidates third-party storage resources. Scale-in expands performance and capacity of host volumes without adding any hardware resources, and allows the storage system to
infinitely adapt to service needs.
The OceanStor 18000 series is a distributed multi-controller storage system whose controllers can increase from 2 to 16 non-disruptively based on the scale-out technology. A fully configured OceanStor 18000 series storage system consists of eight system bays and two disk bays. Each system bay can house a maximum of 192 x 3.5-inch disks or 408 x 2.5-inch disks. Each disk bay can house a maximum of 192 x 3.5-inch disks.

The OceanStor 18000 series offers a wide range of disk options including ultra-fast enterprise-class SSDs, high-performance enterprise-class SAS disks, and large-capacity NL-SAS disks, as well as 8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel ports and 10 Gbit/s Ethernet ports used for FCoE and iSCSI connections.

Stable µs-level latency, delivering quick response to critical services

The OceanStor 18800F employs an ultra-fast caching algorithm specially designed for SSDs, accelerating data reads and writes. The I/O latency remains stable at the µs level, while the IOPS reaches the million level.

Groundbreaking Smart Matrix Architecture
Smart Matrix architecture
The Smart Matrix architecture is exclusive to the OceanStor 18000 series and enables an OceanStor 18000 series storage system to scale up to 16 controllers, 3 TB cache, and 7 PB of capacity, breaking the limits of
the traditional dual-controller architecture and leading to unprecedented system scalability and availability.

PCIe-based interconnection, end-to-end reliability
The Smart Matrix architecture uses PCIe 2.0 for controller interconnection, delivering bandwidth of up to 192 GB/s. Each controller provides front- and back-end ports as well as global cache. Multiple controllers can
simultaneously flush data to disks for higher I/O efficiency.

Scale-out expansion
The Smart Matrix architecture enables system resources to increase linearly. Controllers of an OceanStor 18000 series storage system can be expanded to 16 while the system is online, along with being deployed
in a distributed manner in the data center.

RAID 2.0+ Virtualized Intelligent Volume

Next-generation intelligent disk management technology
Space on all disks in a storage system is divided into chunks. The chunks constitute chunk groups (CKGs), which are further divided into fine-grained extents. These extents then form LUNs. This process enables data to be evenly distributed to disks, greatly improving I/O performance, eliminating hotspot disks, reducing the disk failure rate, and enhancing system reliability. Each disk reserves certain hot spare space. If a disk becomes faulty, all the other disks participate in data reconstruction, accelerating data recovery by 20 times and further boosting system reliability.
Smart series resource allocation software
The Smart series software can further improve efficiency and flexibility of the OceanStor 18000 series. SmartTier automatically optimizes performance and lowers costs. SmartMotion dynamically adjusts
data distribution to balance performance and capacity among disks. SmartThin optimizes storage space utilization. SmartQoS controls service quality and prioritizes resource demands of critical services.
SmartPartition partitions and isolates storage cache, and ensures sufficient cache resources for critical services. 

Smart Series Software Allocating Storage Resources Flexibly and Efficiently

SmartQoS — Service Quality Control
SmartQoS classifies I/Os into priority-specific queues based on application priorities. Sufficient storage resources are reserved for I/O queues with a high priority to meet their performance requirements.

SmartPartition — Cache Partitioning
SmartPartition sets cache partition objectives for critical services. By dynamically allocating and isolating cache resources based on the objectives, SmartPartition prevents unnecessary cache contention and ensures performance of critical services.

SmartTier — Intelligent Storage Tiering
SmartTier creates different storage tiers based on disk types, analyzes the access frequency of data, and migrates data among tiers based on the analysis results.

SmartMotion — Balanced Performance and Capacity Among Disks
SmartMotion analyzes the access frequency of data and available capacity of a specific type of disks, and migrates data among those disks to balance performance and capacity among disks of the same type.

SmartThin — Optimal Resource Allocation
SmartThin allocates storage space on demand and reclaims unusedspace of typical applications such as VMware, Veritas Storage Foundation, and Windows Server. Space is allocated and reclaimed at a granularity of 64 KB. SmartThin also supports capacity pre-allocation for thin LUNs.

SmartVirtualization — Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization

SmartVirtualization takes over third-party storage systems to consolidate storage resources on a live network, make full use of legacy storage space, simplify management, and maximize the ROI.

SmartMigration — Intelligent LUN Data Migration
SmartMigration migrates LUN data without interrupting services and dynamically adjusts the migration rate based on the workload, ensuring smooth device replacement and system upgrade. 

SmartErase — Intelligent LUN Data Destruction
SmartErase allows users to erase confidential data from storage media, preventing the leak of key information.

Hyper Series Data Projection Software Safeguarding Service Continuity
HyperSnap
HyperSnap generates snapshots for a source volume of any capacity at specified points in time without interrupting system services.

HyperClone
HyperClone generates physical copies (data mirrors) for a primary LUN. By synchronizing data from a primary LUN to its secondary LUN and then splitting the pair, a user can obtain a physical copy of the primary LUN.

HyperReplication/S

HyperReplication/S (synchronous remote replication) replicates data synchronously from a primary LUN to a secondary LUN on another storage array. Data is consistent between the primary and secondary
LUNs. 

HyperReplication/A
HyperReplication/A (asynchronous remote replication) replicates data asynchronously from a primary LUN to a secondary LUN at a remote site up to thousands of kilometers away. 

HyperReplication/CG
HyperReplication/CG adds multiple data volumes that share the same replication policy to a consistency group, ensuring data consistency among these data volumes.

ReplicationDirector
Huawei OceanStor ReplicationDirector software is designed to manage the disaster recovery of enterprise data centers.