The OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 are mid-range and high-end storage products newly developed by Huawei
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Description
Business development leads to a great amount of service data, which poses ever high demands on storage systems. Traditional storage systems fail to meet these demands and encounter the following bottlenecks: inflexible storage performance expansion, complex management of various devices, failure to utilize legacy devices, and increasing maintenance costs occupying a large part of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). To eliminate these bottlenecks, Huawei has launched the OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system.
OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system incorporates flexible and scalable design, industry-leading technical specifications, RAID2.0+ underlying virtualization technology, and a variety of data protection technologies. All these advantages ensure the security and continuity of diversified applications, including large database online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP), high-performance computing (HPC), digital medium, Internet commerce, central storage, backup, disaster recovery, and data migration.
In addition to providing high-performance storage services for application servers, OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system supports advanced data backup and disaster recovery technologies, ensuring the secure and smooth running of data services. Also, OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system offers easy-to-use management modes and convenient local/remote maintenance modes, greatly decreasing the management and maintenance costs.
Product Features
The OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system associates a superior hardware structure with advanced data application and protection technologies, meeting medium- and large-sized enterprises’ storage requirements for high performance, flexible scalability, proven reliability, and high availability.
High Performance
- Superior hardware
The OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system is equipped with 64-bit multi-core processors, high-speed and large-capacity caches, and various high-speed interface modules. The superior hardware allows the OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system to offer better storage performance than tradition storage systems.
- SmartTier
The SmartTier technology identifies hotspot data and periodically promotes them to high-performance storage medium for a performance boost. In addition, SmartTier supports SSD data caching, accelerating access to hotspot data.
- Solid state drives (SSDs)
The OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system can be fully configured with SSDs to provide peak performance for the most-demanding applications.
Flexible Scalability
The OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system has an outstanding scalability. It supports various types of disks and host interface modules. Also, the interface modules have a high density. The supported multiple types and high-density interface modules bring a high system scalability.
- Types of disks:SAS disks, NL-SAS disks, and SSDs.
- Types of host interface modules:8 Gbit/s fiber channel, 16 Gbit/s fiber channel, GE, 10 Gbit/s TOE, and 10 Gbit/s FCoE.
OceanStor 6800 V3&6900 V3 also support scale-out feature to add more nodes to the storage system, achieving system performance improvement.
Proven Reliability
The OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system offers protection measures against component failures and power failure, and uses advanced technologies to minimize risks of disk failures and data loss. This ensures the proven reliability of the storage system.
- Against component failures
The storage system components are in 1+1 redundancy and work in active-active mode. Normally, every two components are working simultaneously and share loads. If one component fails or gets offline, the other one takes over all loads and speeds up to compensate. The whole process is transparent to applications.
- RAID 2.0+ underlying virtualization
The storage system employs innovative RAID 2.0+ underlying virtualization technology for automatic disk load balancing. If a disk encounters a fault, all the other disks in the same disk domain help construct the faulty disk’s service data, achieving a 20-fold faster reconstruction speed than traditional RAID technology. In addition, RAID 2.0+ significantly reduces the possibility of multi-disk failure.
- Against unexpected downtime
The storage system is equipped with backup battery modules (BBUs) that provide power for the controller enclosure in the event of a power failure. This protects the data in the cache and dumps it to the build-in disks of the controllers to avoid data loss.
- Bad sector repair
The storage system is prone to bad sectors of disks. The OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system adopts the bad sector repair technology to proactively detect and repair bad sectors, reduce the disk failure rate by 50%, and prolong the service life of disks.
- Disk pre-copy
The disk pre-copy technology enables the storage system to routinely check the hardware status and migrate data from any failing disk to minimize the risks of data loss.
High Availability
- TurboModule enables controllers, fans, power modules, interface modules, BBUs, and disks to be hot-swapped without restarting the storage system, allowing online operations.
- Dynamic capacity expansion enables users to add disks to a disk domain in an online and easy manner.
- Snapshot generates multiple point-in-time images for the source LUN (Logical Unit Number) data. The snapshot images can be used to recover data quickly when needed.
- LUN copy backs up data among heterogeneous storage systems for data protection.
- Remote replication backs up local data onto a remote storage system for disaster recovery.
- Clone preserves a real-time physical copy of a source LUN for the high availability of local data.
- HyperMirror backs up data in real time. If the source data becomes unavailable, applications can automatically use the data copy, ensuring high data security and application continuity.
- SmartVirtualization enables a local storage system to centrally manage storage resources of third-party storage systems, simplifying storage system management and reducing maintenance costs.
- SmartMigration migrates LUNs in or between storage systems, adjusting and allocating resources along with business development.
- SmartMulti-Tenant enables a storage system to provide different tenants with shared storage resources and to separate tenant access and management.
High System Security
- Security of management channelsThe management operations from physical ports are controlled by the access authentication mechanism of the storage system, and only authorized users are allowed to manage the storage system.
- Security of the operating systemThe storage system’s native operating system has past the compatibility test and vulnerability scanning test. Therefore, the operating system has wide compatibility and no high-risk vulnerability exists.
- Anti-attack protection for protocols and portsThe storage system provides only necessary ports to the external for system operations and maintenance. All the ports used are listed in the Communication Matrix. Dynamic listening ports are functioning in the proper scope, and no unopened port exists.
- Security of management and maintenanceThe operations of users can be allowed and denied. All management operations are logged by the system.
- Encrypted data transferVPN devices are used to establish an iSCSI transfer channel between two storage devices and data transferred between storage devices is encrypted to ensure privacy and security. Therefore, encrypted data transfer can apply to service data transfer in using value-added features, such as LUN copy, synchronous remote replication, and asynchronous remote replication.
- Data sanitationWhen deleting unwanted data, the system erases the specified LUN to make the deleted data unable to be restored, preventing critical data leaks.
- Service ports are isolated from management portsThe Access Control List (ACL) mechanism is adopted to isolate Ethernet host ports from internal heartbeat network ports, management network ports, and maintenance network ports.
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Internal heartbeat links are established between controllers for these controllers to detect each other’s working status. You do not need to separately connect cables.
Virtualization, Intelligence, and Efficiency
- RAID 2.0+ underlying virtualization
RAID 2.0+ underlying virtualization technology divides disk storage space into small-sized data blocks and uses the blocks to create RAID groups for fine-grained resource management. The technology realizes automatic load balancing, higher storage performance, better storage space utilization, faster disk reconstruction, and delicate storage space management. RAID 2.0+ serves as a basis for a number of other advanced storage technologies.
- SmartTier (intelligent storage tiering)
Enables a storage system to automatically analyze data access frequency per unit time and relocate data to disks of different performance levels based on the analysis result. (High-performance disks store hot data, performance disks store warm data, and large-capacity disks store cold data.) In this way, the optimal overall performance is achieved and the per IOPS cost is reduced.
- SmartQoS (intelligent service quality control)
Enables a storage system to categorize service data based on data characteristics (each category represents a type of application) and set a priority and performance objective for each category. In this way, resources are provided for services properly, fully utilizing system resources.
- Thin provisioning
Allows on-demand allocation of storage space rather than the traditional method of pre-allocating all storage space at the initial stage. It is more efficient because the amount of resources used is close to the amount of resources allocated. In this way, the initial purchase cost and total cost of ownership are reduced.
- SmartCache (intelligent storage cache)
The SmartCache feature uses solid state drives (SSDs) as caching storage resources. It accelerates system read performance in the case that there exists hot data, random small I/Os and more reads than writes.
Economy and Ease-of-Use
The OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/6900 V3 storage system incorporates delicate fan speed control, intelligent CPU frequency control, and a high-density enclosure design to achieve a high cost-effectiveness. It also provides a series of management and maintenance tools to simplify operation and maintenance tasks.
- Economy
- Intelligent CPU frequency control
Automatically changes the CPU frequency based on the system loads, that is, it decreases the CPU frequency and power consumption during off-peak hours for a low operation cost and long CPU service life.
- Delicate fan speed control
Dynamically adjusts the fan speed based on the storage system’s temperature. It lowers the noise and power consumption and cuts the operation cost.
- Data Reduction
The storage system employs data reduction technology to find and process redundant data on disks, which improves disk utilization efficiently.
- Intelligent CPU frequency control
- Ease-of-use
- DeviceManager
The DeviceManager is a storage system management tool based on a graphical user interface (GUI) and enables you to efficiently manage storage systems by wizard-based operations.
- Integrated managementSupports integrated management of the VMware vCenter Plug-In and Hyper-V System Center, facilitating virtual environment management.
- Pad managementSupports flexible storage system management on a Pad.
- Various alarm notification methods
Provides alarm notification by sound, indicator, short message service (SMS), and email.
- One-click upgrade tool
Provides one-click upgrade for controllers. It simplifies the upgrade operation and makes the procedure transparent to users.
- DeviceManager
Hardware Configuration
| Item | 5300 V3 | 5500 V3 | 5600 V3 | 5800 V3 | 6800 V3 | 6900 V3 |
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| Processor (single controller) | 1 x 4-core processor | 1 x 6-core processor | 1 x 6-core processor | 2 x 6-core processors | 2 x 6-core processors | 2 x 10-core processors |
| Cache size (single controller) | 16 GB |
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| Maximum number of controllers | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Maximum number of disks | 500 | 750 | 1000 | 1250 | 1500 | 2000 |
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| Maximum number of disk enclosures | 21 | 31
(Due to the limited length of a cascading cable, a maximum of 24 high-density enclosures are supported.) |
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(Due to the limited length of a cascading cable, a maximum of 24 high-density enclosures are supported.) |
53
(Due to the limited length of a cascading cable, a maximum of 24 high-density enclosures are supported.) |
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(Due to the limited length of a cascading cable, a maximum of 24 high-density enclosures are supported.) |
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(Due to the limited length of a cascading cable, a maximum of 24 high-density enclosures are supported.) |
| Supported disk types | SSD, SAS, NL-SAS | |||||
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| Supported hot-swappable expansion module type | 12 Gbit/s SAS | |||||
| Maximum number of hot-swappable interface modules per controller | 2 | 8 | 6 | |||
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