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 Contents
1. Distributed Storage Concepts

2. Highlights of Huawei OceanStor Pacific Distributed Storage

3. Sales Scenarios of Huawei OceanStor Pacific Distributed Storage

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Distributed Storage Becomes Increasingly Essential

Storage Growth Extensive

applications
HCI
Cloud transformation
Distributed Banking, ISPs

Device and data integration

All-flash Carriers, large enterprises, electric power
industry

Video networking
Converged
Government, law enforcement, public safety,
campus services

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

Source: HUAWEI MI

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Distributed Storage vs. Centralized Storage
Distributed Storage Centralized Storage
Cluster + Identical Nodes Controller + Disk Enclosure

Sever Sefver Server Server

VM VM VM VM DB VM VM

VM VM VM VM 1. Larger capacity: VM VM
1. Smaller capacity：
XXX TB~EB TB~PB

2. Elastic Expansion Switch

2. Limited expansion:
switch
with adding nodes, 2~XX controllers
up to thousands.
SAN/NAS Array 3. Performance: IOPS，
Node 1 Node 2 Node N 3. Performance：
Controller XX K ~ X M IOPS
… bandwidth XX
GB/S DAE DAE DAE
NLSAS SAS SSD
Distributed Storage

XX controllers
Hundreds to thousands of nodes
Linear expansion of capacity and performance

Application for Distributed Storage: ①diversified data ②Massive expansion ③ simplified management

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Catalog of Distributed Storage

File HDFS
Block
Video editting • Works as traditional SAN
Logs
HPDA • Application: low latency, high IOPS
Analysis
CCTV
bigdata
PACS

Block Object
File
• Works as shared folder
VM Image • Application: File sharing, HPC,
Video, Image
Database Online video
Container Backup & Archive Object
• Internet access
• Application: Internet App,
SCSI/iSCSI NFS/CIFS S3 HDFS IOT

HDFS
• Similar as file
• Application: bigdata platform
Distributed Storage

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 Contents

1. Distributed Storage Concepts

2. Highlights of Huawei OceanStor Pacific Distributed Storage

3. Sales Scenarios of Huawei OceanStor Pacific Distributed Storage

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Huawei OceanStor Embraces the Era of Mass Data with Continuous
New
Innovations OceanStor Pacific scale-out storage
Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice 2022

OceanStor Pacific next-gen HPDA parallel storage

Best of Show Award Grand Prize at Interop 2021

OceanStor Pacific hybrid version released

The only Chinese vendor that enters the Gartner Challengers quadrant 2020

Best of Show Award Grand Prize at Interop 2019

Industry's first distributed active-active solution 2018

No.1 market share in China, ranked by IDC 2017

Distributed block storage

No. 1 performance in SPC-1 2016

Pioneer in commercial use for 4K UHD 2015

2nd-gen file storage
OPS: a new record in SPEC test 2013
1st-gen file storage 2009

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Huawei Distributed Storage Products Have Gained Industry Recognition via
Continuous Upgrades
New

Best of Show Award Grand Prize at Interop One of the world's leading HPC storage performance
Tokyo 2021 rankings Gartner Peer Insights Customers'
Choice 2022
3rd place worldwide (1st place as a commercial
product)

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OceanStor Pacific Series Overview
High-performance Content resource pool Log retention Smart city Virtualization/Cloud
resource pool Database
computing Backup &
Application Web disk
archiving
layer

NFS/SMB
S3 HDFS SCSI/iSCSI
/POSIX/MPI-IO

File storage service Object storage service HDFS storage service Block storage service

SmartMulti- Self-encrypting drive

SmartTier SmartQuota SmartQoS SmartEqualizer SmartThin SmartQoS
Tenant (SED)

Software SmartEncryption SmartAuditlog SmartInterworking Recycle bin SmartIndexing MultiPool SmartDedupe SmartCompression
layer
HyperReplication
Object Versioning SmartTakeover HyperSnap HyperReplication (A) HyperSnap HyperClone HyperMetro
(S)/(A)

EC/Multi-copy Fast reconstruction SSD cache DIF

..
.
OceanStor OceanStor OceanStor
OceanStor OceanStor Pacific 9350 OceanStor OceanStor Pacific 9550 Pacific 9950
Products Pacific 9340 Pacific 9346 OceanStor Pacific 9540 Pacific 9546 OceanStor
Pacific 9920
Pacific 9520

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OceanStor Pacific Product Overview
Decoupled storage- Backup and
HPDA compute for big Virtualization/cloud
Intelligent video & image archiving of
data resource pool
mass data

Balanced Archive
OceanStor OceanStor Pacific 9550
Performance OceanStor Pacific 9546 OceanStor Pacific 9340 OceanStor Pacific 9350
Pacific 9950
OceanStor Pacific
9920

OceanStor Pacific scale-out storage

Specifications
Performance model: 99 series Balanced model: 95 series Video model: 93 series
OceanStor OceanStor OceanStor
OceanStor Pacific 9950 OceanStor Pacific 9920 OceanStor Pacific 9350
Product Model Pacific 9546 Pacific 9550 Pacific 9346
Configuration

(80 slots per enclosure) (25 slots per enclosure) (120 slots per enclosure)
Hardware

(60 slots per enclosure) (120 slots per enclosure) (60 slots per enclosure)
Main Storage Disk Type NVMe SSD SATA HDD SATA HDD

Dedicated hardware Dedicated hardware Dedicated hardware Dedicated hardware Dedicated hardware Dedicated hardware
Chassis Model
5 U 8-node 2 U 1-node 4 U 2-node 5 U 2-node 4 U 1-node 5 U 2-node
(Key Features of Version 8.1.5)

Storage File, object, block, and HDFS File, object, block, and HDFS File and object
NFS over RDMA Supported Supported Supported Not supported
Ransomware Protection Supported Supported Supported Supported
Functions

Antivirus Protection Supported Supported Supported Supported

Intra-Cluster Data Tiering and
Supported Supported Supported Not supported
Mobility
Inter-Cluster Data Tiering and
Supported Supported Supported Supported
Mobility

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OceanStor Pacific : Massive Data Storage Platform for Hybrid Loads

HPDA BigData Video & Imagine Backup & Archive

OceanStor Pacific

Performance Balanced Video

OceanStor Pacific OceanStor Pacific OceanStor Pacific
9950 | 9920 9550 | 9546 9350 | 9346

High efficiency with Hybrid loads Optimal TCO for Massive Data High Data Resilience

• SmartInterworking: Industry-Leading, • High-density hardware: 120 HDD/5U, saving • HyperGeoMetro & EC：Multiple-DC DR
Lossless Interworking Between Unstructured space and power. solution, supporting up to 12 DCs.
Protocols
• Automatic inter-intra Data Flow: built-in data • Fast Failover: failover <10S
• One nodes supports multiple-protocol services. tier make data migration more smoothly and
cost-effective. • Data Security：Built-in intelligent
ransomware detection, with a detection and
• Excellent Expansion Capability：Fully identification rate of 99.9%, industry-leading,
symmetric distributed architecture, linear comprehensive protection to ensure high
growth of performance and capacity. data security

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 Always cost-
Always efficient Always on
effective

SmartInterworking- zero data copy, instant read and write of different

applications
Traditional solution: Separate file and object indexes Huawei Solution: Unified File and Object Index

Data
Data import Training & Simulation Data release Data import Data preprocessing
Training & SimulationData release
preprocessing

Unique in
the industry
S3
S3
NFS/CIFS

Copying Copying Copying space

50%
File Big data File Object File Big data Object

0 gateway, 0 loss, 0 copy

Analysis efficiency

30%

Raw data Preprocessing OPS storage OBS OceanStor Pacific

library
Bandwidth-based storage

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 Always cost-
Always efficient Always on
effective

Hybrid load performance balancing: I/O data flow adaptation

Large I/O Small Large I/Os are directly written to the storage tier.
I/O 1
Reduces network and memory bandwidth amplification and
improves bandwidth.

1 Small I/O cache tiers write after aggregation

Full 2 Reduces the number of I/O interactions, reduces write penalty, and improves
Cache random small I/O write performance.
Stripe
layer
2 3 3
Intelligently prefetch files
1 2 3 4 5 6
Storage 3 Sequential small I/O read for large files and intelligent prefetch for small file
Large File Small
layer indexes
Sequential small I/O File

160 GB/s 6.4 million IOPS 640K OPS

Single frame

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 Always efficient Always cost-effective Always on

Optimal High-Density Hardware: Easy Installation and Maximum Value of Data

Center Space

High-density 20% 14.5%

5U 120 design Hard disk density per
unit space
Large EC
Space utilization
Subrack 3.5-inch SATA
hard drive

91.6%
OceanStor Pacific 9550

80%

5 U, 120 disks
4 U, 80 disks

Other vendors Huawei Other vendors Huawei

• Up to 22+2 EC
• Flexible number of nodes

Note: The space usage does not exclude the reserved space.

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 Always efficient Always cost-effective Always on

Tiering and Free Flow of Hot, Warm, and Cold Data, Reducing TCO by 70%

Real-time service Hybrid services Low-frequency services

≥
70% TCO reduction *

AWS
Huawei Cloud • Automatic data tiering: supports free flow
...
combination and

combination and compression

Tiering of hot, warm, and cold data from one

compression
Tiering
Multi-model
SSD HDD Data Cloud cluster to multiple clusters or clouds at
Tiering
multiple data centers, with customizable

Multi-model
OceanStor Pacific OceanStor Pacific HDD

Data
9950 | 9920 9550 | 9546 data tiering policies.
OceanStor Pacific
Blu-ray disc library • Data compression before flow: offers a

Blu-ray
maximum compression ratio of 2:1,
Tiering exceeding the industry by 40%, reducing
OceanStor
OceanStor Dorado OceanProtect
self-developed storage space and bandwidth.
Blu-ray storage

* Accounting under typical configurations may

Enterprise multiple data centers vary in different scenarios.

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 Always efficient Always cost-effective Always on

Optimal linear expansion: 100 billion objects in a single bucket, meeting the
requirements for efficient access of massive small files
The number of objects in a
single bucket is far ahead.
e-bill image Checkpoint image IoT Internet of
Vehicles
15M 1000M 1000M 100,000M
Vendor X Vendor E Vendor H HUAWEI

Stable performance
• 100 billion-level • A large city, 2W traffic • Large object,
TPS
objects in a bucket cameras, 140 billion bandwidth > 250 MB/s
Third-party test data and 10 billion-level images in a year • Small object, TPS of a
HUAWEI
1,000,000 objects in a single set single bucket: 300–
• Performance: TPS 600
1000 to 10000
Vendor X

1,000,000
100,000 million

Meets the single-bucket read and write requirements of service applications, eliminating bucket reconstruction for large-scale
applications.
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 Always efficient Always cost-effective Always on

Always-on Services: Cross-site DR + Second-level Switchover upon nodes

fault within a site

Set of Data

A B C D P P

Site-based active- ≤10s

12 active DR (object)
Node Failover

• Supports 2 to 12 sites in multi- • Intelligent heartbeat detection

active mode.
• Quick service takeover
• A maximum of two sites can be Site 2
• A maximum of four nodes fail at
faulty at the same time.
the same time and services are
• Industry-leading space Intra-site storage cluster
not interrupted.
utilization: For example, the
Site 1 Multi-site multi-active Site 12
utilization rate reaches 61% in
the case of three sites in multi-
active mode.

Site 3

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Cross-Site DR Demonstration
HyperGeoMetro HyperGeoEC

Site 1
Site 2

Site 1 Site 2
Bucket A
Bucket A
A B
C P
HyperGeoMetro WAN Bucket D
Bucket A Bucket A
Site 4 Site 7
File
File11 HyperGeoMetro File 1
Bucket B Bucket B Bucket A
Bucket A
Host 1 …
Bucket D Bucket C
Site 3
File 1
File 2
Site 12 Site 5
Host 1 Site 12
…
File
File 22
Bucket B

Site 5
Bucket C

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Always-on Services: Built-in Detection of Ransom, Comprehensive Protection

Production Site Isolated Site

Foundation protection Advanced protection

Local protection for production storage + Air gap + replication links
Local protection for production storage Encryption of + Air-Gap protection
Data leakage Data Tamper Detection and Data leakage Data Tamper Detection and
prevention Protection analysis prevention Protection analysis
Storage Encryption Secure Snapshot Pre-mortem detection
Protocol Encryption WORM Perimortem detection Storage Encryption Secure Snapshot post-event detection
Physical
post-event detection
isolation
Air Gap
Replication Link Data recovery
Local Secure Encryption
Data (2023H2)
Recovery Quarantine
Restore security data from the Security Data
OceanStor Pacific Air-Gap area to production OceanStor Pacific Recovery
Key technologies

1 Detection and analysis 2 Secure Snapshot 3 AIR GAP 4 Replication Link Encryption 5 Protocol Encryption 6 Storage Encryption

Huawei-developed detection and Storage in the production center Data is copied to the isolated During the replication process, Ensure the security of stored data
NFS and CIFS/SMB
analysis engine is installed. It and Air-Gap area uses the secure area by automatically shutting transmission encryption and prevent the risk of sensitive
packets are transmitted
analyzes file I/O behavior and file snapshot technology to ensure down the replication link, which ensures data transmission information leakage caused by
in ciphertext, preventing ransomware attacks.
damage characteristics based on ML that data is read-only and cannot provides a more secure security and prevents sensitive
data theft.
algorithm, generates event alarms, be modified or deleted within the protection effect. information from being (2023H2)
specified time range. (2023H2) disclosed.
and provides client information for
source tracing.

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 Contents

1. Distributed Storage Concepts

2. Highlights of Huawei OceanStor Pacific Distributed Storage

3. Sales Scenarios of Huawei OceanStor Pacific Distributed Storage

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OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage: One Storage System for Multiple
Workloads
Four Scenarios
Scientific research HPDA Video and media Mass data archiving Medical imaging center
• Education: HPC in higher education • Broadcasting and TV: HD editing • Finance: financial document imaging • Healthcare: PACS system
institutions
• Government: safe city • Education: data archiving • Healthcare: digital pathology
• Government: supercomputing, scientific
research, and meteorological HPC • Transportation: highway, airport, • Government: data archiving
• Healthcare: genome sequencing and urban rail
• Manufacturing: autonomous driving and oil
and gas exploration

Huawei OceanStor Pacific - next-generation distributed storage system that supports large-scale scale-out and
hybrid loads

Performance Models Balanced Models Video Models Archiving Models

OceanStor Pacific 9950 | 9920 OceanStor Pacific 9550 | 9546 OceanStor Pacific 9350 | 9346 OceanStor Pacific 9150 | Huawei-developed
(2023H2) Blu-ray storage
(2024 H1)

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HPDA-One Storage Device Meets Multiple Service Requirements and
Delivers Leading Performance in All Scenarios
Energy
exploration
Supercomputi
ng Center
Gene
sequencing
educational and
scientific research
Autopilot 7mins
Clinical Medicine ESI Top One Thousand in the World

HPC cluster/GPU workstation AI/Big Data cluster Archive management server

data center network InfiniBand/RoCE hereditary population Assisted Oncology contagious ICU early sieve
POSIX, MPI-IO, NFS, S3 disease cohort study reproducti Research disease
research on

Production storage Archive storage

OceanStor Pacific
Human genome-wide analysis enters the minute-level era for
Intelligent data tiering and the first time
compression
OceanStor Pacific 9950 OceanStor Pacific 9550 | 9546
High-density performance High-density balanced 30X Human WGS Germline Variation Analysis Time

One set of storage devices open 24 hours

source
Concurrent interconnection software
Industry No.1 in Multiple Lossless multiple-protocol
of diverse computing Performance Models interworking FPGA 25
power acceleration minutes

WHS-IMOAP
Native objects, files, and big data 7
ARM+AI+X86+GPU 160 GB/s bandwidth, 6.4 million IOPS 2.0 minutes
Single-stream bandwidth: 8 GB/s Multi-Protocol Interworking

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Data Backup and Archiving Solution-Efficient, Reliable, and Cost-effective
Object Data Platform

Internet
Efficient Top Banks
Content Stable and high performance in the
Ticket image Video of
collaboration case of 100 billion object storage
Things

Ticket image
TPS 7 x 24 service continuity 4x faster processing speed
Third-party test data
assurance
Atempo software 1,000,000 Huawei
PSM
Rubrik
... Product C
Content management 1,000,000 100,000 million
platform
electronic statement
system
Reliable
S3 Cross-site DR supports a maximum e-bill ......
Global
Namespace of 12 sites in multi-active mode.
Industry-leading reliability and
... space utilization
Legacy system: Active-
OceanStor Pacific Legacy file Active
Site 1 Site 12 OceanStor Solution OceanStor
system
economy Pacific Pacific
Large EC ratio provides optimal site1 Site 2
Site 2 resource utilization.

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Intelligent Video and Image Storage-New-Generation Stream Forwarding &
Storage for Video Security, Responding to the Video Explosion Era with Ease
Video security service flow
Multi-protocol
More flexible scalability
Fully symmetric distributed architecture: up to
interworking
4096 nodes for a single cluster, with no
Seamless NFS/CIFS/HDFS/S3 interworking with
independent
zero metadata
data copy helps node easily
our customers
Safe City Urban rail Airport Subway implement HPDA- and AI-oriented
Efficient management evolution.
and easy deployment:
efficient, easy-to-use, and unified cluster
management mode
Video/Image
VMS
Video/Image
Access Multi-protocol
Lower cost
interworking
High-density hardware: 4 U/5 U high-density
Seamless NFS/CIFS/HDFS/S3
models save equipment interworking
room space, with
cabinet
zero data copy helps our customers easily
TCP/IP power consumption, and total cost of
AI analysis implement HPDA- and AI-oriented evolution.
operation (TCO).
Large-ratio EC: 22+2
NFS/CIFS

Multi-protocol
Higher reliability
Camera video
stream OceanStor Pacific series stream interworking
System-level high reliability: 99.999%
Camera image Storage reliability, dynamic EC, and
Seamless NFS/CIFS/HDFS/S3 tolerance
interworking of
with
stream
forwarding and storage base zero data copy helps
four faulty nodes our customers easily
implement
Service HPDA- and assurance:
continuity AI-oriented evolution.
failover in
seconds, and online upgrade with no
service interruption

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Media Service Storage-Cost Effective, Performant, and Streamlined Storage
for HD Video
Storage Solution

Collection Editing Management Archive Broadcast

Satellite/Filming/DVD Editing/Rendering/Sy
nthesis
Cataloging/Indexing/T
ranscoding
CD-ROM/Storage Broadcast and control Unique 36-layer
4K UHD editing
…

Collection Resource Long-term

NLE content
system data scheduling archive (S3/NAS) All-day playout
production
input (FTP/NAS)
4,096 nodes
horizontal scale-out
Unified converged resource pool 24/7 playout
scalability
Performance Models Performance layer Capacity layer Archive layer Cloud All-flash storage
OceanStor Pacific 9950/9920 Tiering AWS (Fault domain isolation)
Auto migration Auto migration
Huawei Cloud
Balanced Models OceanStor Pacific 99xx
Etc.
100%
OceanStor Pacific 9550/9546
OceanStor Pacific 99xx OceanStor Pacific 95xx OceanStor Pacific 91xx data security
Archiving Models
Features of the storage resource pool
OceanStor Blu-ray storage (2024H1)
High-density hardware design | Fully symmetric horizontal scale-out architecture | Intelligent prefetch
algorithm | FlashLink | Intelligent data tiering | Ransomware protection | Recycle bin | And more

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