OceanStor Pacific 9928
Modern data-intensive applications are pushing traditional storage infrastructure to its limits. Workloads in High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI, and big data analytics demand unprecedented levels of bandwidth, IOPS, and low-latency access to massive datasets. Relying on legacy systems creates performance bottlenecks that slow down research, inhibit innovation, and increase operational complexity.
The Huawei OceanStor Pacific 9928 is an all-flash scale-out storage system engineered to eliminate these barriers. Built on a fully symmetric scale-out architecture and powered by dual Kunpeng 920 processors, each node delivers up to 150 GB/s of bandwidth and 3 million IOPS. This raw power provides the performance foundation needed to accelerate data ingestion, processing, and analysis for your most demanding applications.
By breaking down data silos through seamless multi-protocol interworking, the OceanStor Pacific 9928 allows you to serve block, file, object, and HDFS workloads from a single, unified platform. This simplifies data management, improves resource utilization, and provides the elastic, exabyte-scale capacity required to support your organization's data growth for years to come.
The OceanStor Pacific 9928 leverages a state-of-the-art hardware and software architecture to deliver consistent, high-throughput performance. Its design features innovative technologies like Direct-to-Object Ethernet (DTOE) NIC offloading, which moves storage protocol processing from the CPU to the network card, freeing up valuable compute resources to focus exclusively on I/O operations. This efficiency is further enhanced by a unique Distributed Parallel Client (DPC) that maximizes throughput for hybrid workloads.
Each high-density 2U chassis houses a single powerful node and 36 NVMe SSD slots, supporting drives up to 61.44 TB for a maximum raw capacity of over 2.2 PB per chassis. The fully symmetric scale-out design ensures that performance and capacity grow linearly as you add nodes, enabling seamless expansion to exabyte levels without system downtime or performance degradation. A unified file view and global namespace simplify data mobility and management across the entire distributed cluster, regardless of its size.
Evaluating enterprise storage for critical workloads like AI and HPC requires a deep understanding of performance, scalability, and protocol requirements. The Huawei OceanStor Pacific 9928 offers a powerful feature set, but aligning its specific capabilities with your unique architectural and business goals is key to maximizing ROI.
Nexus ITX provides the necessary technical and commercial analysis to support your evaluation process, helping you navigate the options and make an informed decision without ambiguity.
Q: What makes the OceanStor Pacific 9928 suitable for HPC workloads?
A: Its suitability for HPC comes from a combination of extremely high performance and specialized protocol support. It delivers up to 150 GB/s bandwidth and 3 million IOPS per node, with high-speed interconnects including up to 400 Gbit/s InfiniBand. Furthermore, its support for the Distributed Parallel Client (DPC) protocol for POSIX and MPI-IO is engineered specifically for parallel computing environments.
Q: How does the system handle different data types simultaneously?
A: The OceanStor Pacific 9928 features seamless multi-protocol interworking, which allows it to serve data via block (iSCSI, SCSI), file (NFS, SMB, DPC), object (Amazon S3), and big data (HDFS) protocols concurrently from a single, unified storage pool. This eliminates the need for separate storage systems for different workloads.
Q: What is the maximum raw capacity per chassis?
A: A single 2U chassis of the OceanStor Pacific 9928 can achieve a maximum raw capacity of 2211.84 TB (over 2.2 PB). This is accomplished by populating all 36 disk slots with the highest-capacity 61.44 TB NVMe SSDs.
Q: What data protection mechanisms are available?
A: The system provides flexible data protection to suit different needs. It supports Elastic Erasure Coding (EC) with N+M data-to-parity ratios, where M can be 2, 3, or 4. It also supports traditional 2-way or 3-way multi-replica configurations for higher data availability.
Q: What is DTOE (Direct-to-Object Ethernet) NIC offloading?
A: DTOE is a technology that offloads storage protocol processing from the main Kunpeng 920 CPUs directly to the network interface card (NIC). This frees up CPU cycles to focus on core I/O operations, which reduces latency and significantly boosts overall system efficiency and throughput.
Q: How does the OceanStor Pacific 9928 scale?
A: It uses a fully symmetric scale-out architecture. This means you can expand the cluster by adding more 9928 nodes. As nodes are added, both performance and capacity increase linearly, allowing the system to elastically grow to exabyte (EB) scale without performance degradation.
Q: How can Nexus ITX help determine the right configuration?
A: Nexus ITX can assist in analyzing your specific workload requirements for IOPS, bandwidth, and capacity. Based on this analysis, we can help you compare the available SSD, memory, and networking options to identify the most suitable and cost-effective configuration of the OceanStor Pacific 9928 for your objectives.
Contact us to discuss your technical requirements and align the right all-flash storage configuration with your enterprise data strategy.
