OceanStor Pacific 9926
Modern enterprises face an unprecedented surge in data from artificial intelligence, high-performance computing (HPC), and big data analytics. Legacy storage systems often struggle to provide the performance, scalability, and efficiency required, creating bottlenecks that hinder innovation. To stay competitive, organizations need a storage foundation that can handle massive, unstructured datasets with extreme speed and low latency.
The Huawei OceanStor Pacific 9926 is a performance-optimized all-flash scale-out storage system engineered to meet these demands. It leverages a fully symmetric scale-out architecture, powerful Kunpeng 920 processors, and high-speed NVMe flash to create an exceptionally dense and energy-efficient data platform. Designed for the most demanding workloads, the 9926 provides a robust foundation for building AI data lakes, accelerating analytics, and supporting complex scientific research.
By delivering massive capacity and throughput in a compact footprint, the OceanStor Pacific 9926 helps organizations manage data growth sustainably. Its focus on green design principles, with an industry-low power consumption of just 0.25 W/TB, reduces both operational costs and environmental impact, making it a forward-thinking choice for any modern data center.
At the core of the OceanStor Pacific 9926 is a fully symmetric, distributed architecture that allows for seamless, linear scaling of both performance and capacity as your data grows. Each node is a powerhouse, equipped with dual Kunpeng 920 processors and up to 1,024 GB of DDR5 memory, ensuring it can process data-intensive tasks without constraint. The system's design prioritizes density, housing 36 high-capacity, palm-sized NVMe SSDs in a single 2U chassis to deliver over 2.2 PB of raw capacity.
This immense capacity can be effectively doubled to over 4 PB through a dedicated hardware compression card, which performs 2:1 lossless compression without impacting CPU resources. The 9926 offers versatile, high-speed connectivity options, including 25GE to 400GE interfaces for TCP/IP and RoCE, as well as InfiniBand for HPC environments. With native support for file (NFS, SMB, DPC) and object (Amazon S3) protocols, it provides flexible data access for a wide range of modern and traditional applications.
Selecting the right storage foundation for data-intensive workloads like AI and HPC is a critical architectural decision. The Huawei OceanStor Pacific 9926 offers a powerful combination of performance, density, and efficiency, but aligning its specific capabilities with your unique technical and business requirements is essential for success. Nexus ITX helps organizations navigate this evaluation process with a data-driven, requirements-first approach.
We facilitate a clear understanding of how the OceanStor Pacific 9926 can integrate into your existing environment and scale to meet future demands. Our focus is on ensuring the technology is a precise fit for your applications, data workflows, and long-term strategic goals.
Q: What is the primary advantage of the OceanStor Pacific 9926's all-flash NVMe design?
A: The all-flash NVMe design provides extremely high throughput and low latency, which is critical for I/O-intensive workloads like AI model training, real-time data analytics, and high-performance computing. It eliminates the performance bottlenecks associated with traditional spinning disk or SAS/SATA SSD-based storage.
Q: How does the system achieve over 2.2 PB of raw capacity in a 2U chassis?
A: The OceanStor Pacific 9926 achieves this remarkable density by utilizing a compact chassis design that houses 36 disk slots populated with high-capacity, palm-sized NVMe SSDs, which are available in capacities up to 61.44 TB each.
Q: What is Elastic EC and how does it protect data?
A: Elastic Erasure Coding (EC) is a data redundancy mechanism that protects against disk or node failures. It breaks data into fragments and adds parity fragments, distributing them across different nodes. The OceanStor Pacific 9926 supports flexible N+M schemes (where M can be 2, 3, or 4), allowing administrators to balance between data reliability and capacity overhead.
Q: Can the OceanStor Pacific 9926 serve both file and object storage simultaneously?
A: Yes. The system is a unified storage platform that provides native support for multiple protocols. It can serve file-based workloads via NFS, SMB, and DPC (for POSIX/MPI-IO) and object-based workloads via the Amazon S3 protocol from the same hardware, simplifying infrastructure.
Q: What is the benefit of the dedicated hardware compression card?
A: The dedicated card offloads the compression workload from the main Kunpeng 920 CPUs. This provides a consistent 2:1 lossless compression ratio to double the effective storage capacity without consuming valuable processor cycles that are better used for servicing application I/O, thus maintaining high performance.
Q: How does the OceanStor Pacific 9926 scale?
A: The system uses a fully symmetric scale-out architecture. To expand, you simply add more 9926 nodes to the cluster. This allows for linear and predictable scaling of both storage capacity and performance to meet growing data demands without disruptive upgrades.
Q: How can Nexus ITX help me determine if the 9926 is right for my organization?
A: Nexus ITX can assist by facilitating a technical evaluation. We help you analyze your application performance requirements, data growth projections, and existing infrastructure to determine how the OceanStor Pacific 9926's features, scalability, and various configurations align with your specific needs.
Contact Nexus ITX to discuss your technical requirements and align the right storage configuration with your data strategy.
