Huawei New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage

Pre-sales Training

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 Contents

1. Product Positioning and Specification Comparison

2. Software Architecture Upgrade

3. Product Highlights

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New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage: Product Positioning
➢ Replaces OceanStor V5 Kunpeng
➢ Covers 6 mid-range or higher models — OceanStor 5310/5510/5610/6810/18510/18810
➢ Tailored for the hybrid flash market (i.e. the role of SSDs and mandatory config.) and all-
OceanStor
flash evolution Dorado 18000
512 GB/1 TB/2 TB
➢ Integrates the advantages of OceanStor Dorado and OceanStor V5 Kunpeng

OceanStor
Dorado 8000
High-end model OceanStor 18510
(entry point) OceanStor 18810
512 GB/1 TB/2 TB
OceanStor 1 TB/2 TB
OceanStor OceanStor
Dorado 3000 Dorado 5000 Dorado 6000
128/192/256 GB 256/512 GB 1024 GB
OceanStor 6810
High-end model
(entry point)
OceanStor Dorado 2000
OceanStor 5310 OceanStor 5510 OceanStor 5610
64/128 GB
128/256 GB 384/512 GB 768/1024 GB

OceanStor OceanStor
2200/2220 2600/2620
32 GB 64/128 GB

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Key Features: New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage vs. OceanStor V5
Upgraded hardware and architecture innovation
compared to OceanStor V5 Kunpeng
Category OceanStor V5 Kunpeng New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage
LUN ALUA A-A LUN A-A
Architecture
File system: A-P architecture File system: distributed file system
High-end models tolerate 3/4 controller
Architecture Reliability High-end models tolerate 7/8 controller failures
failures
Kernel-mode upgrade. Controller restart User-mode upgrade. No restart required in 95% of
Upgrade
required scenarios
Hardware
Host protocol NoF is not supported. Supports FC-NVMe and NVMe over RoCE (NoF+)
capabilities
COW mode: snapshot performance
deteriorates significantly. ROW-based lossless mode:
Snapshot
High-density snapshots and cascaded Supports high-density and cascaded snapshots.
OceanStor snapshots are not supported.
A-A solution for SAN
5310/5510/5610/6810/18510/18810 Metro
Industry's only A-A solution for SAN and NAS
Function clustering
A-P solution for NAS
Supports RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID-TP, and RAID zoom
Supports RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, and 6. Tolerance for
RAID (dynamic RAID reconstruction). Tolerance for 3 disk
up to 2 disk failures
failures
Built-in
Not supported Supported
container

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1. Product Positioning and Specification Comparison

2. Software Architecture Upgrade

3. Product Highlights

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Two Architecture Upgrades of the New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage

OceanStor V5 New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid

Flash Storage

Write in Place Redirect on Write

COW snapshot ROW snapshot

ALUA A-A Fully balanced A-A

architecture architecture

Distributed file system

ALUA File System
OceanFS
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Write-in-Place Architecture Causes Huge Write Penalty, Impacting Hard
Disks with Insufficient Performance
1111
Parity bit

0110 1101 0101 0010

RAID Level Write

Take RAID 5 as an example. If 0110 is changed to 1111 and the Write-in-Place Penalty
architecture is used: 0 1
• Read the original 0110 and perform exclusive OR (XOR) with the new data
1111. 1111 XOR 0110 = 1001 1 2
• Read parity bit 0010 and perform XOR with the above result. 1001 XOR
0010 = 1011 5 4
• Then write 1111 to the original position and write 1011 to the parity bit.
6 6
In conclusion, writing 1111 once will generate two reads and two writes, 10 2
resulting in 4x the write penalty.

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New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage Uses ROW-based Large Block
Sequential Writes to Solve HDD Performance Bottlenecks
Data to be
modified
B' D' E' Snapshot
S

Data
written A B C D E P1 P2
Snapshot
S The latest data
N
Data written
The latest data
A B C D E P1 P2
Snapshot
S N
New data
Data after
B' D' E' X1 X2 P1' P2'
modification A B' C D' E' P1' P2'
ROW does not cause write penalty and data migration.
Snapshot ROW + large block sequential writes convert random I/Os to sequential large I/Os,
protection zone Write penalty generated by which is more suitable for HDDs.
B D E writing data in place; High-density snapshots can be created without migrating original data.
High data migration costs; ROW increases the amount of metadata and requires frequent rewriting of
Snapshots greatly affect metadata.
Write-in-place performance and cannot be used
as high-density snapshots. ROW + large block sequential writes
OceanStor V5 SAN
New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage

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New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage Uses the Symmetric A-A
Architecture for True Load Balancing
LUN/FS ownership: I/O requests
No LUN/FS ownership: I/O requests
from hosts to LUN-A/FS-A can be Host
delivered only through
from hosts to LUN-A/FS-A are Host
distributed to multiple controllers for
controller A.
load balancing.

Forwarding

Controller A Controller B Controller C Controller D Controller A Controller B Controller C Controller D

Forwarding

Forwarding

LUN-A/FS-A
LUN-1/FS-1
ALUA A-A architecture Symmetric A-A architecture
OceanStor V5 New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage
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Architecture Upgrade-100% Performance Improvement
Performance comparison in
SmartAcceleration OceanStor V5
typical configurations
48 NL-SAS HDDs + 4 SSDs
New-Gen OceanStor
Hybrid Flash Storage
ROW-based Large Block 180%
110%
Sequential Writes
Global data write optimization

Flexible Convergence of 230%

Heterogeneous Media
Cache Tier Optimal cost-performance balance

Global Cold/Hot Data

Perception
Multidimensional feature 8 KB I/O 64 KB file 2 GB file and 8 KB I/O
Reads/writes: 7:3 Reads/writes: 6:4 Reads/writes: 7:3
learning of neural networks *Test results from Huawei Lab

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Architecture Upgrade-Extensive Value-Added Features (VAFs) and Minimal
Impact on Performance After VAFs Are Enabled
Advanced data protection functions Minimal impact on performance (VAFs
enabled)
Performance decrease: 20% to 30% for competitor vs. <10% for Huawei

HyperCDP Snapshot Cascading

High-density snapshot consistency groups snapshot
3s protection interval

OceanStor V5

New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid

Initial performance GC RAID 6 Snapshot
Flash Storage
Competitor Huawei OceanStor
hybrid flash hybrid flash
Test equipment: Dual-controller, 1 TB cache, 48 NL-SAS HDDs + 4 SSDs

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Architecture Upgrade-Industry's Only Active-Active Solution for NAS

EDA
PACS CAD
File Sharing
Cross-site directory access balancing
Industry's only
New-Gen OceanStor New-Gen OceanStor
A-A solution for NAS Hybrid Flash Storage Hybrid Flash Storage
HyperMetro
Gateway-free A-A solution
Production center A Production center B

HyperReplication HyperReplication

• RTO = RPO = 0 OceanStor storage system

• Load balancing across 2 data centers

• Smooth upgrade to 3DC/4DC solutions
DR and backup center

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 Content

1. Product Positioning and Specification Comparison

2. Software Architecture Upgrade
3. Product Highlights

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Future-Oriented Design that Supports Multi-Workloads

Continuous Evolution, Oriented to Multi-

Workloads with high security
Supports multi-workloads, such as blocks, files, virtualization, and containers.
Cloud backup and private cloud interconnection to support cloud-based evolution.
Multiple security protection methods to protect enterprise value data.

Full Upgrade for Flash-Like Experience

SmartAcceleration in all scenarios and convergence of cache and tier.
SmartMatrix A-A fully load balancing architecture maximizes the performance.

OceanStor
5310/5510/5610/6810/18510/18810 Reduced TCO
No SAS HDD required reduces construction costs; supports reuse of
cross-gen devices.
Intelligent and automatic O&M greatly reduces O&M costs.

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Multi-Workload Support to Meet Diversified Customer Requirements

Data Center
Multiple Application Ecosystems
Traditional core Critical + emerging
services services Supports block, file, container, VM, and
distributed database apps.

DB2 Oracle MySQL MongoDB AIOT

Diverse Cloud-based Evolution
Virtualization Hybrid cloud Container
Supports cloud backup, private cloud, and public cloud-like
BMS VMware
x86 FusionCompute
deployment for diversified cloud-based evolution.
ARM KVM

Multi-level Protection for Regulatory

SAN NAS Compliance
Zero-trust-based permission management, antivirus, WORM,
HDD -> SSD
and log audit functions.
New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash
Storage

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All-Scenario Interconnection with VMware Facilitates Fine-Grained

Management
VMware ESXi vCenter

Full COPY
HW-Assisted Locking
VASA Provider DME plugin
Block Zero
Thin Provisioning Unmap

VAAI integration improves the Storage integration supports

VMware vSphere efficiency of data storage VASA integration enables vCenter storage resource provisioning on
operations. to sense storage information. vCenter

VM VM VMware Metro clustering

SRM
eSDK Storage SRA
PE PE Disaster recovery
plugins

Vvols 2.0 for SRM integration for automatic vMSCs metro clustering for
VM-level resource remote and unified management of 99.9999% virtualization
replication virtual DR processes reliability

VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi
FullCOPY
FC/iSCSI HW-Assisted Locking
LazyClone/
FC-NVMe Block Zero
FullClone/
NVMe over RoCE Thin Provisioning Unmap
Reserve Space/ UltraPath for VMware
Extended Statistics

New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid VAAI-SAN supports four

networking modes to PSA integration for path
Flash Storage
improve efficiency of data management and load balancing in
VAAI-NAS the ESX OS
storage operations.

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Storage for Cloud-Native Container-Powerful Functions and Quick Deployment

Internet Enterprise Finance Media Education

Application auto
Control plane HA
scaling
Kunpeng container Storage plug-ins Image scanning BMS container
Huawei CSI feature highlights:
Automated Volcano batch Automated Permissions
Node auto scaling GUI/CLI/API
configuration processing deployment management
✓ Standard interface definition for interconnection with multiple
container platforms
Enhanced features of containerized applications
✓ The out-of-tree model is decoupled from K8s, and supports
containerized deployment, which is more secure and flexible.
✓ Powerful functions include volume and snapshot management,
and support continuous upgrade.

Open-source native container platform

Huawei CDR feature highlights:
gRPC

Storage ✓ Reduced backup cost: Application-level backup and recovery

Compute (ECS/BMS/ARM/GPU) Networking (VPC/EIP)
(Huawei CSI, Huawei CDR) without additional backup software, reducing TCO.
✓ Fast recovery: Services are available immediately after recovery,
ensuring data security.

New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage

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CloudBackup-Data Backup and Smooth Data Migration to the Cloud

HUAWEI CLOUD AWS S3 • With CloudBackup, data can be backed up to public cloud object storage
OBS
(currently, HUAWEI CLOUD OBS and AWS S3 supported) or backup

Incremental Difference
storage in a local data center.
backup of comparison
differential data
History Current • Based on SmartContainer deployed on storage, CloudBackup can directly
snapshot snapshot

access storage file systems and read-only snapshots, reducing the cost of
CloudBackup
purchasing backup servers.
SmartContainer
• Configurable full backup and incremental backup policies
Read-only
FileSystem snapshot
• Users can import cloud copies and recreate copy database information

for DR, service migration, and test & dev.

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Anti-Ransomware Solution: Flexible Combos of 7 Protection Measures to

Prevent Ransomware Attacks
Network layer Storage layer Backup layer

NAS virus scanning Air gap backup

Periodic antivirus scanning to Backup devices are isolated from
remove risks the network to defense against
virus attacks.

Ransomware attack process:

1. Intrudes user networks.
2. Searches for important files of Encrypted storage Ransomware detection in
Encrypted transmission
users. Encrypted transmission for Encryption before storing copies
replication/Active-active design; prevents information leakage. Identifies infected copies,
3. Delivers targeted ransomware.
no disclosure of sensitive followed by early isolation and
information email warning.

Secure snapshot Secure copy-based recovery

Read-only file system Uses secure copies for rapid
snapshots prevent tampering recovery if primary storage is
and can be used for recovery infected.
at any time.

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Storage Array Encryption: Lossless Performance, Multi-Level Data Encryption,

and Full Functional Compliance
Storage Array Encryption
✓ 0 service reconstruction: The operation of storage-level
Application server encryption does not affect applications, so application
reconstruction is not required.

Key management server ✓ Full functional compliance: Supports the AES-256

algorithm and CPU encryption engine.
Storage controller
Data encryption Data encryption engine
✓ Low performance loss: Dedicated encryption
Key lifecycle management.
acceleration based on Kunpeng processors or SSD
Storage disk control chips, achieving zero or low loss of performance

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Secure Snapshot: Protecting Backups of Critical Data from Accidental or

Intentional Deletion
Cycle frequency of 3 seconds (LUN)/15 seconds (FS)

LUN/FS TP TP+1 TP+2 … TP+N

CDP snapshots CDP 0 CDP 1 CDP 2 … CDP N

Creating secure snapshots Max = 60,000 for LUN

Max = 4,096 for FS
Rollback

Secure snapshot: Rapid recovery:

◆ ◆
Supports creation of a single secure snapshot and a Infection-free snapshots are available in the
secure snapshot consistency group. production center for recovery In the event of a
◆
Supports conversion from HyperCDP to secure disaster
◆
snapshots; and HyperCDP consistency groups to secure The recovery granularity is as low as 3s (SAN)/15s
snapshot consistency groups. (NAS).

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A New Industry Standard for Hybrid Flash Storage: Innovative Hardware,

Advanced Architecture, and Intelligent Algorithm
Advanced architecture

Symmetric active-active architecture

Symmetric A-A architecture leads load balancing between controllers,
improves both performance and reliability.

Distributed file system

Distributed file
system The file system is distributed by directory, maximizing storage
computing power.

Intelligent algorithm 100% better performance than previous

generation
SmartAcceleration
Industry's only that allows 7 out of 8
The innovative cold and hot data migration algorithm creates controllers to fail
flash-like experience.
Industry's only A-A design for NAS

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Symmetric A-A Architecture for LUN Maximizes Controller Performance

Symmetric A-A architecture

FC/NoF/iSCSI ⚫ Global cache is used, and all controllers participate in
service processing. Workloads of a single LUN are
Global cache balanced among multiple controllers.
⚫ A single LUN can use 90% of controller performance,
and the performance error between controllers does
not exceed 5%.
⚫ A high-speed RDMA network interconnects 32
controllers, scaling controller performance
horizontally.

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Global Distributed File System Enables Industry-Leading NAS Performance

DIR

Distributed data
balancing File File File

Intelligent balancing vNode

Directory balancing algorithm: Directory and file co-
Faster file systems with all controllers ownership processing:
Zero cross-core and -controller overheads
Global sharing architecture
Readdir 8 KB
Metadata
Filelist Filelist Filelist

/A /B /C /D Global Cache
Intelligent cache
Intelligent metadata Metadata compaction algorithm:
Distributed file system prefetch/elimination algorithm: Greatly improves cache and prefetch
Accelerates index file search efficiency

Controller 1 Controller 2 Controller 3 Controller 4

Global resource pool

Intelligent layout Metadata sequence table layout: Metadata hash table layout:
Accelerates file traversing Accelerates file locating
(Readdir) (Lookup)

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SmartAcceleration: SSD Cache + Tier Convergence for Read Acceleration

in All Scenarios
Database/virtualization applications Database/document Bill imaging/mailbox applications
applications

Cache Cache Cache

SSD cache SSD cache

SSD tier SSD tier

HDD HDD

HDD

Hot data changes frequently. Cold data is read immediately after Data changes from hot to cold based on
being modified. the write time.
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SmartAcceleration: Innovative Data Layout Algorithm Accelerates All Hot

Data and Delivers Flash-Like Experience

ROW-based large block

SmartAcceleration sequential writes
Global data write optimization
8 data acceleration scenarios 100% better performance
Reading hot data from fixed addresses
Reading hot data from unfixed addresses

Writing hot data to fixed addresses Flexible convergence of

Writing hot data to unfixed addresses heterogeneous media
Reading hot data after write
SmartCache Cache Tier Optimal cost-performance
Overwriting non-hot data balance
Reading hot data with access frequency
SmartTier (Write in Place)
decaying over time
Writing hot data with access frequency
decaying over time
SmartTier (ROW) Global cold/hot data
perception
Multidimensional feature
learning of neural networks

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SmartAcceleration: Elastic Tier/Cache Convergence for Optimal Cost-

Performance Balance
Traditional hybrid flash storage New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage
Tier/cache space isolated Elastic tier/cache converged

SSD cache Performance layer

SSD cache/tier
Data migration based on
access frequency
Periodically
Disadvantages migrated
• The SSD performance downward
layer is exclusively used
SSD tier SSD tier and cannot be shared NL-SAS tier NL-SAS tier
across pools.
• Caches and tiers are
independent, and
SAS tier SAS tier physical space usage is Advantages
inefficient. • Caches and tiers converge into a performance layer,
• Data needs to be enabling efficient cross-pool sharing.
frequently migrated • The cache-to-tier capacity ratio is automatically
NL-SAS tier NL-SAS tier based on access configured by the system, achieving optimal efficiency.
frequency, affecting • Data does not need to be migrated across caches or
Pool 1 Pool 2 performance. tiers, reducing the impact on performance.

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SmartAcceleration: Adaptive Access Frequency Perception and Prediction

Algorithm, Effectively Improving Hot Data Hits
1 MB

Performance
8 KB Multi-granularity hot data statistics layer Hot data prediction based on time
64 KB Algorithm: predicts hot data sequence
Advance
prefetch
64 KB 32 KB Cold Hot
8 KB
1 MB Time
T0 T1
Current

Prefetch based on continuous

addresses Mass small files
Small I/O access
HBA address
frequency info.
Prefetch based on associated eliminated in priority
addresses
Memory
… … Small I/O
space access
HBA address
Multidimensional associated Small file accessfrequency info.
frequency info.
Elimination policies of scenario-based
Prefetch based on associated access frequency info.
times data prefetch
… … … …

Timeline

T0 T1 T2 T3 T4 Small file access

frequency info.
eliminated in priority
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50% higher in small I/Os 15% higher in small files

15000 38000

33000
9800

SAN & NAS 4500

Industry-leading performance Unit: IOPS Unit: IOPS

Test conditions: Test conditions:
Dual-controller, 48 x NL-SAS HDDs + 4 x SSDs Dual-controller, 48 x NL-SAS HDDs + 4 x SSDs
8 KB I/O size, 7:3 mixed read/write 64 KB I/O size, 6:4 mixed read/write

20% higher in large files and Equivalent with industry benchmark

small I/Os in operational I/O scenarios

42000
create
OceanStor 5510 40
35000 mkdir

Vendor H C650 30
delete

Vendor D Unity XT 680 20 access

chdir
10
Vendor N 8300

Unit: IOPS Unit: s

Test conditions: Test conditions:
Dual-controller, 48 x NL-SAS HDDs + 4 x SSDs Dual-controller, operations such as mkdir, write, read,
2 GB file size, 8 KB I/O size, 7:3 mixed read/write open, delete, access, and create
Source: internal Huawei lab data

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High-Performance Warm/Hot Data Layout Powered by Intelligence: SAS

HDDs Replaced for Optical TCO
Performance
XX%

Purchase costs
Purchase costs x%
The cost per TB of SAS HDDs is five times that of
NL-SAS HDDs. Adopting the SmartAcceleration
Performance
intelligent data layout algorithm, New-Gen
OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage can achieve
performance far higher than OceanStor V5 at a

New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid lower purchase cost, and without SAS HDDs.
OceanStor V5 Flash Storage

SSD SAS NL-SAS HDD SSD NL-SAS HDD

HDD

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Interconnection Between New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage and

Other OceanStor Series
All-flash and cross-gen hybrid flash arrays build a complete DR system.

• The New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage supports SAN/NAS asynchronous replication

OceanStor Dorado V3 with OceanStor Dorado, and can work as the primary storage node of DR.

• The New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash Storage supports SAN asynchronous replication with

OceanStor Dorado V3 and OceanStor V3/V5 to fully reuse legacy storage devices.
OceanStor
V3

SAN Asynchronous SAN/NAS Asynchronous

SAN/NAS HyperMetro Replication Replication
SAN/NAS Replication

OceanStor OceanStor
OceanStor Dorado All-Flash
V5 V5 kunpeng OceanStor 5310~18810 Storage
New-Gen OceanStor Hybrid Flash
Storage

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SmartInsight Provides Health Analysis in Terms of System, Performance, and

Capacity
Capacity and health Performance
System health check
prediction fluctuation analysis
• Accurately identifies factors affecting • Fluctuation analysis by day, week, • Intuitively reflects the running
capacity. and month status of the equipment.
• Intelligently identifies information about • Service change guidance • Proactively prevents risks.
disk performance, logs, and features.

Performance analytics and optimization

Disk fault prediction
suggestions

Drive service life

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