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Huawei OceanStor N8500

With rapid progress in information industry, data witnesses a sharp growth, and the growth speed of unstructured data far exceeds the expectation. Unified & centralized storage and effective & simple management for mass storage is required to better support the sustainable growth of services. Markets pose new challenges to the performance, scalability, efficiency, and application scenarios of the storage system. Huawei’s OceanStor N8500 clustered NAS storage system is a leading high performance NAS storage oriented to big data field. It provides high performance, high expansion, effective data management, and unified storage.

Product Features

High Performance

  • Leading performance: The storage system provides top performance in the SPECsfs2008 benchmark. When the NFS protocol is used, performance reaches 3,064,602 OPS.
  • Cluster architecture: Multi-node Active-Active cluster technology is used. In the cluster, all nodes work in a cooperative manner to implement concurrent data access.
  • Globally shared storage: All nodes can access the same storage at the same time. Through the intelligent DNS it can balance load to each node, improving node resource utilization
  • Highly reliable architecture: Redundant components prevent single points of failure. Software technologies such as data coffer and file system mirror further improve system reliability.

Scalability

  • Expansible engine node: Engine nodes can be smoothly expanded online to 24 nodes. System performance improves with the addition of engine nodes.
  • Expansible storage capacity: Storage capacity can be expanded to 15 PB.

Efficiency

  • Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST): Bidirectional dynamic migration is implemented between different storage media based on file access frequency and time policy. It is transparent to applications and reduces enterprise CAPEX.
  • Smartcache: By using flash drivers to extend the cache and cooperating with the dynamic data cache technology, improve the system performance
  • File system mirror : In certain storage systems, a file system mirror can be set to store multiple data file systems and improve online data reliability.
  • Soft/hard quota management: This implements flexible user space allocation and use.
  • Domain management: AD/NIS/LDAP is supported.
  • Multiple protection technologies: Provide multiple value-added features such as snapshot, copy, remote replication

Convergence

  • Unified protocols: Unified storage refers to unified storage of the SAN or NAS storage protocol. Certain storage systems support structured and unstructured data storage. Multiple storage network protocols such as iSCSI, FC, FCoE, NFS, CIFS, HTTP, and FTP are supported.
  • Unified management: A simple graphical interface provides a unified way to manage files and block data services. A wizard configuration mode helps complete configurations easily.
  • Device monitoring: The graphical management interface provides real-time/historical performance measurement and supports multiple alarm modes such as audible alarms, visual alarms, and email alarms. A device’s operating status can be monitored at any time.

 

Product Specification

Model

N8500

Hardware Specifications

Architecture

Multinode Active-Active cluster architecture

Number of nodes

2 – 24

Cache/node

Basic Version: 16 GB
Standard Version: 24 GB
Enterprise Version: 48 GB
Enhanced Version: 96 GB / 192 GB

GE ports/node

Standard configuration: 4 x GE, up to 16 x GE

10 GE ports/node

Up to 6 x 10 GE

Disk type

SSD, SAS, SATA, NL-SAS

Physical storage capacity

Dynamically expandable up to 15 PB

Software Features

RAID levels

0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50

File system size

Dynamically expandable up to 256 TB

Maximum number of snapshots

512 (per file system)

Storage network protocols

FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, FTP, HTTP

Access control

NIS, Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP

Other protocols

NDMP, SNMP, NTP

Value-added functions

DST(dynamic storage tiering), Snapshot, Mirror, Quota, Replication, SmartCache (dynamic data cache technology), HyperThin (thin provisioning), HyperImage (snapshot), HyperCopy (LUN copy), HyperClone (split mirror), and HyperMirror (synchronous/asynchronous remote replication)

Quota

NFS/CIFS soft/hard quota management

Management mode

GUI, CLI

Compatible operating systems

Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX

Fault alarm modes

Email, SNMP, and Syslog

Physical Specifications

Power supply

AC: 100 V to 127 V/ 200 V to 240V DC:–48 V to –60 V

Power consumption

Engine

≤ 830 W (dual-node cluster)

Storage unit

Controller enclosure: ≤ 830 W; Disk enclosure: ≤ 550 W

Dimensions (H x W x D)

Engine

4U, 175 mm x 446 mm x 502 mm (dual-node cluster)

Storage unit

2U, Controller enclosure: 86.1 mm x 446 mm x 582 mm
4U, Controller enclosure: 175 mm x 446 mm x 502 mm
2U, Disk enclosure: 86.1 mm x 446 mm x 412 mm
4U, Disk enclosure: 175 mm x 446 mm x 412 mm

Cabinet

42U, 205 cm x 57.5 cm x 118 cm

Weight

Engine

Dual-node clustered NAS engine: ≤ 43.6 kg

Storage unit (in full configuration)

2U, Controller enclosure ≤29.9 kg/enclosure
4U, Controller enclosure ≤43.6 kg/enclosure
2U, Disk enclosure ≤26.5 kg/ enclosure; 4U, Disk enclosure ≤42.64 kg/enclosure

Operating temperature

5o C to 40o C

Operating humidity

5% RH to 90% RH

For more details, please refer to Huawei OceanStor N8500 Datasheet (PDF).