OceanStor Pacific 9520 Scale-out Storage
Managing the explosive growth of both structured and unstructured data presents a significant challenge for modern enterprises. Traditional storage systems often create silos, leading to increased complexity, higher costs, and inefficient data access. A unified approach is needed to support everything from databases and virtual machines to big data analytics and long-term archives without compromising on performance or reliability.
The Huawei OceanStor Pacific 9520 is a balanced scale-out storage product designed to break down these silos. Built on a fully symmetric scale-out architecture, it provides a single, flexible platform for diverse data access scenarios. By delivering high-density capacity and optimized performance for both block and file/object storage, the Pacific 9520 helps organizations simplify their infrastructure, accelerate data-driven initiatives, and efficiently scale to meet future demands.
The OceanStor Pacific 9520 leverages a powerful and efficient hardware design to deliver exceptional performance and capacity. Each 2U chassis contains a single node powered by a Kunpeng 920 processor, ensuring robust processing power for demanding workloads. The system is engineered for high density, offering up to 384 TB of raw capacity per chassis, allowing organizations to store massive datasets within a compact physical footprint.
This system offers distinct configurations optimized for structured data (databases, virtualization) and unstructured data (big data, archives). It supports a comprehensive range of storage access protocols—including NFS, SMB, HDFS, S3, iSCSI, and OpenStack Cinder—enabling seamless integration into nearly any IT environment. With up to 256 GB of memory and four NVMe SSDs for cache per node, the Pacific 9520 accelerates data access and ensures consistent, low-latency performance for critical applications.
Selecting the right scale-out storage solution is critical for balancing performance, capacity, and cost. The Huawei OceanStor Pacific 9520 offers a wide range of configurations and features that must be carefully mapped to specific technical and business requirements. Nexus ITX provides the advisory services to navigate this complexity, helping your organization make an informed decision without ambiguity.
We focus on a requirements-first approach to ensure the chosen solution aligns perfectly with your operational needs and strategic goals. Nexus ITX helps organizations analyze their workloads, data growth projections, and integration points to determine the most suitable storage architecture.
Q: What is the core architectural design of the OceanStor Pacific 9520?
A: The system is built on a fully symmetric scale-out architecture. This means every node is identical and can handle both metadata and data I/O. This design allows for linear, predictable scaling of performance and capacity as more nodes are added to the cluster.
Q: How does the Pacific 9520 handle data protection and failures?
A: It uses advanced Erasure Coding (EC) technologies. Its Dynamic EC feature can tolerate up to four simultaneous node failures. The system also supports an Elastic EC ratio of up to 22+2, which achieves a high disk space utilization rate of 91.6% while maintaining robust data redundancy.
Q: What is the data reconstruction speed in case of a disk failure?
A: The system features rapid, automatic data reconstruction. It can rebuild data at a rate of up to 2 TB per hour for unstructured data configurations and up to 4 TB per hour for structured data configurations, significantly reducing the window of risk.
Q: What types of network interfaces are supported?
A: The OceanStor Pacific 9520 supports 10GE or 25GE front-end and storage networks. It can use standard TCP/IP or RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) for high-speed, low-latency communication between nodes and clients.
Q: Can this system serve both file and block storage from the same platform?
A: Yes, it is designed as a unified storage platform. It supports a wide range of protocols for unstructured data (NFS, SMB, HDFS, S3) and structured data (SCSI, iSCSI), allowing organizations to consolidate different workload types onto a single, centrally managed system.
Q: How can Nexus ITX assist with selecting the right OceanStor Pacific 9520 configuration?
A: Nexus ITX helps organizations evaluate their specific performance and capacity requirements. We can assist in comparing the distinct configurations for structured and unstructured data, determining the appropriate amount of memory and NVMe cache, and aligning the system's capabilities with your application needs and growth plans.
Contact us to evaluate how the OceanStor Pacific 9520 can meet your specific data management and performance needs.
