Huawei Storage Solutions Overview
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A Leading Vendor in Enterprise Networking
Challenger in Gartner Magic Quadrants
Global Presence
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14 Regional Headquarters, 140+ branch offices
25 Innovation Centers, 45 Training Centers
140,000+ employees from 150 Countries
Challenger
15%
10%
5%
0
9.4%
9.1%
9.7%
9.7%
11.6%
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Growing investments in R&D
Huawei Switch Market Share
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Global shipment 6,500,000+ units
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Global Market Share No. 3 in 2012(Source: Dell’oro)
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Serving 1000+ large to medium sized enterprise and
500+ carriers worldwide.
Helping to provide network connections to over 2 billion
people
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Growing Enterprise Networking Team
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Globalized R&D team with 6 R&D Centers
worldwide
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Headcount Enterprise Networking reached 3500 in
February, 2013.
The World is Changing
2020~
40000EB
Mobile，Social
1800EB
Mainframe
Minicomputer
2.6EB
HP
IBM Fijitsu
Training
Billing CRM EMC
Unifys
Time &
Burroughs
Quality Control
HCM Engineering
PLM
NEC Hitachi
Payroll
PC
15.8EB
SuperCam
Desktop Internet
54.5EB Bills of MaterialNetSuite
WorkbrainZynga
Baidu
News
Yandex
Cloud
Travel
Music
SolidFire
Quickbooks
Education
Atlassian
Sport
Atlassian
Qzone
Reference buzzd
cloudability
Games
Big Data
iHandy
Foursquare
Lifestyle
Heroku
Plex Systems
Manufacturing Projects
Database
Rostering
Google Microsoft
Mixi
CyberShift
DocuSign
CloudSigma
Sales tracking &
DCC
Time and Expense
Xerox
Yahoo!
Yandex
Marketing Order Entry
Intacct
OpSourceAvid
Hyland
SCM Servic
Splunk
Activity
Corel
Khan Academy
Inventory
Elemica
Tata Communications
e
Accounts Fixed
Management
Twitter New Relic
Saba
Adobe
Assets
Costing
PPM
Costing MRM OpenText
SCM
Kinaxis
Amazon
Taleo
Datapipe Quadrem SugarCRM
box.net
Configurator SerifSoftscape
Photo & Vido
Workday
Kenexa
Sonar6
Saba
VirtualEdge
Renren
Mozy
SLI
Systems
Scribd.
Attendance
MailChimp
CCC
Alterian
AppFog
Exact Online
Hosting.com
ADP
Cornerstone onDemand
Entertainment
Qvidian
Business
IntraLinks
Volusion
Pinterest
BYOD
Virtualization
Changes to promote IT innovation
IT innovation driven data changes
CyberShift FinancialForce.com
NetReach
eBay Bull
Navigation
Commissions
NetSuite
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SSD
Toggl
Ah! Fasion Girl
Cookie Doodle
RightScale CYworld
Zillabyte
PingMe
Xing
Sonar6
Qzone
Challenges Posed by Ever-Changing Storage Profile
Incontrollable Data Growth, Low Utilization
Cross-Generation Upgrade, Difficult Online Migration
50%
80% of Data Is Inactive, Low ROI
High Cost for Data Replication and Service
Continuity, Low Reliability
Mass Data Protection, Slow and Difficult Recovery
Diversified Data, No Flexible Management
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Challenges of IT
Fast and agile business
delivery
Business continuity and
security
Flexible Scalability
Accelerate with high
performance
Discovery the value of data
Reduce complexity and
Opex
Consumerization of IT
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Mobilization of IT
Distribution of IT
Make IT Simple, Make Business Agile
Make Business Agile
Government
Healthcare
Media
Telecom
Education
Open API
Virtualization
Elastic
Data Analysis
Insight
On Demand
Mobility
Openness
Automation
Cloud Operation System
ManageOne Data Center Management
Make IT Simple
Hardware
Server
Network
Storage
Security
Container DC
Micro DC
Integration
Elasticity
Automation
Synergy
Facility
Modular DC
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Huawei Storage Footprint
• Huawei Storage Product Line
• A new start.
2012
• New T series SAN published
• Full SSD SAN Dorado 2100 commercial launched
• Media & Entertainment, data protection, Cloud solutions
2011
2010
• New generation SAN series commercial launched
• Cloud storage solutions
•Cloud storage were deployed in some Tele operators
•SAN products were widely deployed in Tele systems
•SAN and NAS were widely used in ISP industry
•High end and Middle range SAN,NAS
•Industry leading performance of SPC-1 and SPEC
2007
2006
2004
2002
2005
2008
• Joint Venture from Huawei and Symantec
• Full series NAS/SAN/VIS Product launched
•launched commercial the 4Gb SAN product.
2003
•Launched the first FC SAN product F800.
•Storage research
•The first generation DAS product: D100
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2009
Joint Innovation with Openness and Collaboration
More than 400
business partners
More than 100
standards organizations
Chairman of
ARMD workgroup
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Lead Kunyun
program
Board member
Huawei Storage Product Portfolio
Unified Storage
S2200T
S6800T
HVS85T/88T
Dorado 2100 G2/5100
S2600T/S5500T/S5600T/S5800T
SSD
Storage
SAN
Storage
2U
204 Hard Drives
2 Controllers
276 ~ 1152 Hard Drives
2 Controllers 8 to16Controllers
1440 Hard
3216 Hard Disks
Drives
• Unified Storage, Simplified Architecture
• Intelligent and Efficient
• Simple to Manage, Easy to Use
• Cluster and Scale-out Architecture
• 2 ~ 24 NAS Engine Nodes
• Large Capacity, Up to 15PB
• Up to 15360 Hard Drives with
• Multiple Storage Protocols, Unified
Management
15PB
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• Excellent Performance, up to 1M IOPS
• Green Design and Energy Saving, Low TCO
• High Stability and Reliability
• High Performance, Linear Expansion
Capability
N8500
NAS
Storage
2 Controllers
200K ~ 1000K IOPS
Unified Storage System
High End
Block
Midrange
Unified Storage
Block + File
Entry
S2600T
S2200T
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Single or dual controllers
2U controller with disks
4GB cache
204 disks
S5800T
S5600T
Block
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S6800T HVS85T/88T
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S5500T
 SPC-1 50,000
SPC-1 30,000
2U controller with disks  2U controller with
disks
8/16GB
 16/32GB
276 disks
 528 disks
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SPC-1 100,000
4U controller
24/48GB
1152 disks
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SPC-1 130,000
4U controller
48/96GB
1440 disks
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SPC-1 150,000
4U controller
48/96/192GB
1440 disks
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8/16 controllers
3216 drives
Unified Management User Interface
Physical
servers
Data analysis
Replication/Sna
pshot
Data protection
Management
Policy
console
management
Compression
Security
management
Content
Monitoring
indexing
Virtualization
environment
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Search
Data
Job
Reporting Alarming classification
management
Data
Tiered
Storage pool
Data expiry
verification
storage
Storage device management
Storage performance statistics
Archiving
Storage
Indexing
Storage resource management
ISM
Storage status monitoring
Unified Protocols and Networking
Applications
Databases
Digital media
File services
S2600T
10 Gbit/s
FCoE
Fibre Channel
Data block
iSCSI
NFS
S5500T
S5600T
CIFS
file
Powerful
Easy
Reliable
Flexible
Huawei Storage – Perfect Solution!
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A T series storage device
supports IP SAN, Fibre Channel
SAN, and NAS networking.
A T series storage device supports
the protocols including iSCSI,
Fibre Channel, NFS, CIFS, HTTP,
and FTP.
S5800T
Unified Storage
File servers
Application servers
iSCSI
NFS/CIFS
File-level access
NAS
IP SAN
FC SAN
N8000
Cluster NAS
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Database servers
FC
Block-level access
Applicable for high bandwidth
OceanStor N8500 Clustered NAS Storage
1
High Performance
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N8500 Clustered NAS
Storage System
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Efficiency
SPEC Performance Test
All Nodes Active Cluster
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2
Dynamic Storage Tiering
File System Mirroring
4
Convergence
Scalability
Linear Expansion, 16
NAS Engines
 Large Capacity, 15PB
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Linear Expansion
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SAN & NAS Protocols
Unified Management
Challenges
Performance
Bottleneck
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Limited
Scalability
Complex
Data Management
Device
Utilization
N8000 Series: N8300 and N8500
Item
N8300
N8500
Num of NAS engine
2-6
4-24
Clustering mode
Active-Active
Cache
8/16GB per NAS engine
Interface of network
4/6 per NAS engine
Interface of FC
2*4Gb per NAS engine
Oceanspace N8300 clustered
NAS storage system
10GbE
2 per NAS engine
N/A
Max. Disks
7680
15360
Disk type
SAS, FC,SATA, SSD
RAID
RAID 0, 1,10, 5, 6
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Oceanspace N8500 clustered
NAS storage system
N8000: Top Clustered NAS Product in the World
The Fastest NAS
SPECsfs2008
3,000,000 OPS
3500000
N0.1
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3000000
2500000
Flexible
Double performance
as peer products
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World No.1 performance with 3 million OPS, double as
peer products
Node scalability from 2 to 24, up to 15 PB storage
capacity
Each file system of up to 256 TB capacity, supporting a
maximum of 1 billion files
Efficient
2000000
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1500000
Dynamic storage tiering (DST) lowering TCO by 60% to
minimize enterprise investment costs
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1000000
File system mirroring generating multiple data file system
copies to improve reliability of online data
Integrated
500000
EMC Isilon
NetApp
FAS6240
Avere
FXT3500
Huawei
N8000
OPS refers to the number of supported concurrent requests per second
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 Multi-protocol support meting diversified service
application needs
 One set of management software managing all NAS and
SAN devices
N9000 : Big Data Storage System
Flexible
N9000
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Analytics
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Life cycle
management
Efficient
Storage
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Archive
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A
5 million+ OPS, 170 GB/s concurrent access, triple
performance as peer products
Node scalability from 3 to 288 with a single file system of up
to 45 PB, triple storage capacity as peer products
Intelligent load balancing, a single node expansion in one
minute
X in one storage management, reducing data migration and
raising resource utilization by 80%
C
B
Integrated
NFS/CIFS
VTL/LTFS
XDBC/SQL
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Storage
Archive
Distributed file system
* N9000 will be released in Q3 2013
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Analysis
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Architecture combining Storage, Archive, and Analysis
Full data lifecycle management, policy-based automated
data migration
N9000 Hardware
High-performance node：
Front view
Rear view
The scene of frequent read
and write small files
Front view
Rear view
Front view
Rear view
High-bandwidth node：
The scene of large file
sequential read and write
Large-capacity node：
Near-line storage
Acceleration node
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2 U high
25 disk slots
2-channel hexa-core CPU
48 GB memory at least
SSDs for storing metadata
4 U high
36 disk slots
2-channel hexa-core CPU
48 GB memory at least
4 U high
36 disk slots
2-channel quad-core CPU
16 GB memory at least
1 U high
Outstanding Performance
SPEC Oct 2012
Twice better
performance
than Avere
Systemʹ peer
product
3,500,000
3,000,000
N9000
3,000,000+
Performance test results:
performance: ≥ 3,000,000
N8000
2,500,000
ORT: ≤ 2.53 ms
3,064,602
SPEC NFS
2,000,000
1,612,778
1,500,000
Bandwidth: 170 GB/s
24 nodes
2.34 ms
The N9000's performance is expected
SPEC CIFS
1,564,404
1,000,000
1,112,705
500,000
2.54 ms
SPEC NFS
1,512,784
0.99 ms
to be three times better than Avere
1.53 ms
SPEC NFS
System's peer product
SPEC NFS
44 nodes
24 nodes
Data source: http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008nfs.html
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N9000 Software — Wise Series
1 WushanFS
2 WiseLink
WushanFS
3 WiseQuota
WushanFS: Wushan
File System
4 WiseTier
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Self-developed distributed file system
Mandatory
Wise Data Protection (WiseDP)
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Cluster load balancing software
Support for multiple load balancing policies
Optional
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Quota management software that sets
space usage limits on directories or users.
Optional
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DST software
Support for policy-based automatic migration
Optional
HUAWEI 9000
Extensive
Flexibility
Outstanding
Performance
 Scaling from 3
to 288 nodes
 World's
leading file
system access
performance
more than 3
million
performance
 Support up to
40 PB of
capacity
 Linear scaling
of performance
and capacity
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Optimal
Integration
 Distributed
scale-out
architecture
 Integration of
scale-out NAS,
scale-out DB,
and scale-out
backup
Streamlined
Management
 Unified
management
of all nodes on
a single
interface
 LCM
UDS: EB-Level Massive Storage System
Web
Disk
Universal Distributed Storage
75disks / 4U
Space
Lease
Active
Archive
Centralized
Backup
• Native object storage, decentralized
architecture
• Unlimited Scalability: EB-level capacity
• Extreme Reliability: 99.9999% durability
ARM-based
high-density enclosure
• Low TCO: Energy saving & no-Touch hw
2.1 PB
40 GB
60%
45%
Max capacity / rack
Output BW / rack
Lower energy saving
TCO reduced
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Industry Leading Performance—SSD
Closing the performance gap:
Dorado2100 G2
Dorado5100
Performance on a par with that of
the best high-end traditional array
Up to 1,000,000 IOPS
 Non-Volatile storage
 lower response time
 High IOPS and Bandwidth
 More Performance/Watt consumed
 Green technology
 NO single point of failure
 IOPS: 1,000,000
 Latency: 500 µs
 4 x 24 SSDs
 Full redundant architecture
 IOPS: 600,000
 Latency: 500 µs
 4 x 25 SSDs
 Hot swaps with Controllers,
Power Supplies, Fans, Interface
modules, SSDs and expansion
ITEM
Dorado2100 G2
Traditional Storage Array
SPC-1 IOPS*
600,000
100,000
Space
2U
48U
96% smaller
ITEM
Dorado5100
Traditional Storage Array
Remarks
SPC-1 IOPS*
1,000,000
600,000
Space
12U
294U
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Remarks
96% smaller
modules. (Without interrupt service
when ONLINE replace.)
 Easy to deploy, Easy to use and
Easy to maintains.
SmartSpeed Acceleration Software
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Constant Innovation Contribution to Storage Standards and Patents
600+
Over 600 storage-related patents authorized and accepted
30+
More than 30 proposals made official standards
10+
Responsible for formulating standards in over 10 Chinese and international
storage standardization organizations
Joined standardization organization
Administration role in standardization organization
International
Post
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SNIA
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INCITS
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SPC
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SPEC
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PCI SIG
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NVMe
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IETF
China
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CNITS SOA
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CCSA
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Standards documents
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Over ten proposals to SNIA
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SNIA TC member
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Two proposals to INCITS
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Joint chairman of SMI Core TWG
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Seven CCSA standards
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Deputy leader of SOA cloud
computing (including storage) group,
CNITS
documents
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Six proposals to IETF
Why Huawei ?
Complete portfolios of IT cloud infrastructure
Over 10 years innovation in IT technologies
Vendor-neutral, no platform lock in
Continuous pursuits best performance & cost efficiency
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Thank You
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