OceanStor Pacific 9920 Scale-out Storage
Modern workloads demand a storage architecture that can deliver extreme performance without creating data silos. The Huawei OceanStor Pacific 9920 is an all-flash scale-out storage system engineered to meet the intensive I/O requirements of high-performance computing (HPC), big data analytics, and large-scale virtualization environments.
Featuring a fully symmetric scale-out architecture, the OceanStor Pacific 9920 eliminates performance bottlenecks and provides linear scalability as your data grows. It is designed to support millions of virtual machines from a single system, offering a unified, high-performance platform for both structured and unstructured data, ensuring your infrastructure is ready for the most demanding applications.
The OceanStor Pacific 9920 leverages a powerful hardware foundation to deliver consistent, low-latency performance. Each node is powered by dual Huawei Kunpeng 920 processors and supports up to 25 palm-sized NVMe SSDs within a compact 2U chassis. This high-density design allows for massive raw capacity, reaching up to 1,536 TB for unstructured data per chassis, providing exceptional performance density for your data center.
To further accelerate data access, the system incorporates Huawei's FlashLink® and AI Fabric network acceleration technologies. This combination optimizes I/O paths and reduces network latency, making it ideal for workloads that require rapid data processing and retrieval. With comprehensive support for high-speed networking interfaces like 100GE RoCE and 200Gb/s InfiniBand, the 9920 ensures a high-throughput data fabric for your most critical applications.
Selecting the right scale-out storage platform requires a deep understanding of your specific workload characteristics, scalability requirements, and existing infrastructure. The Huawei OceanStor Pacific 9920 offers a wide range of configurations and software features, and navigating these options is critical to achieving the right performance and TCO outcomes.
Nexus ITX helps organizations evaluate how the OceanStor Pacific 9920 aligns with their technical and business objectives. We facilitate a data-driven decision-making process focused on identifying the optimal solution for your unique environment.
Q: What is the primary advantage of the OceanStor Pacific 9920's scale-out architecture?
A: The fully symmetric scale-out architecture allows for linear scaling of both performance and capacity. As you add nodes to the cluster, resources are aggregated, preventing performance bottlenecks and enabling the system to grow seamlessly with your data requirements.
Q: What data protocols does the OceanStor Pacific 9920 support?
A: It provides comprehensive multi-protocol support. For unstructured data, it supports NFS, SMB, POSIX, MPI-IO, HDFS, and Amazon S3. For structured data, it supports SCSI, iSCSI, and is compatible with OpenStack Cinder.
Q: How does Elastic EC improve data protection?
A: Elastic EC (Erasure Coding) is an advanced data protection scheme that offers high reliability with greater storage efficiency than traditional replication. It can sustain simultaneous failures of multiple disks or nodes (supporting N+M configurations where M can be 2, 3, or 4) while ensuring data availability.
Q: What type of processor is used in the OceanStor Pacific 9920 nodes?
A: Each node in the OceanStor Pacific 9920 is equipped with two high-performance Huawei Kunpeng 920 processors, providing the computational power needed for demanding storage tasks like data reduction and I/O processing.
Q: Is this system suitable for both block and file storage?
A: Yes, it is a unified storage system. It can serve block storage (via iSCSI/SCSI) for structured data applications like databases and file/object storage (via NFS/SMB/S3) for unstructured data simultaneously within the same platform.
Q: How can Nexus ITX help me determine the right configuration?
A: Nexus ITX can assist by helping you analyze your specific workload I/O profiles, capacity growth projections, and network integration points. This requirements-based approach helps in comparing different hardware and software configurations to find the solution that best fits your technical needs.
Contact Nexus ITX to analyze your workload demands and evaluate how this all-flash scale-out platform can meet your performance and capacity goals.
