huawei symantec oceanspace n8000 clustered nas overview

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Huawei Symantec Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei Symantec Confidential

Oceanspace N8000 Clustered NAS Storage Solution

Storage Solution Department2009.10

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Huawei Symantec Technologies Co., Ltd.

Agenda

• Introduction

• Analysis of traditional NAS

• Overview of N8000

• Features of N8000

• Scenarios of N8000

• Cases


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Introduction

• The rapid development of unstructured data applications is necessitating products that can provide services for sharing data effectively.

Huawei Symantec launches the N8000 Clustered NAS System to overcome the limitations of traditional NAS architectures in terms of performance, reliability, extensibility, and cost.

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Agenda

• Introduction





• Cases


• Single control mode– Single point failures.

CIFS NFS

IP

• Dual control mode– Active-standby.

– Services are interrupted during the switchover.

– Change of links take a long time.

Switchover

CIFS NFS

Unix usersWindows users

CIFS NFS

Windows users Unix users

Traditional NAS (1): low availability

IP


Traditional NAS (2): low performance and extensibility

Head

JBOD

• Low extensibility– The expansion of capacity is limited.– The performance can not be scaled.

• Close coupling of the storage management system and the host ports

– The service performance is further restricted.

• Low performance– Fixed single/dual head architecture.

– The configuration of individual set of devices is fixed.

– The performance can be enhanced only by adding multiple sets of devices. The multiple sets of devices, however, cannot share storage resources and several copies of backup data is required. Thus, the data consistency cannot be ensured.

Traditional NAS


Traditional NAS (3): Failure in Sharing Data Between the Active and Standby Controllers

IPIP

• No failure– Low usage of head resources.

– Heads access their own memory.

– Free heads cannot share loads for busy heads.

• Single head failure– Service outage.

– When a normal head takes over the memory of a faulty head, the switchover costs a long time.


Traditional NAS (4): No Support for Hierarchical Storage

– All the data is stored as the first-level storage, imposing great financial pressure upon enterprises.

– The cost for protecting the data is increasing.

– The yearly growth rate of the requirement for storing data resources by enterprises is 70%.

– The amount of files is soaring, doubling itself every 12 to 18 months.

– 2/8 principle: mixed distribution of frequently-accessed data and rarely-accessed data.

– Large amount of rarely-accessed files makes the retrieval rate gradually low.

Rapid growth of data Mixed distributionof data resources

High IT cost


Traditional NAS (5): complex backing up network

Traditional NAS equipment

Service hosts

Production network

Backup data flow

Tape/disk

network

Backup

Backup server

• The service host is used as the backup client.

•Backing up networks is complex .

• High usage of resources when backing up the data.






Agenda

• Introduction





• Cases


N8000 Clustered NAS System

• Multiple value-added functions– DST dynamic hierarchical storage

– Integration of the NBU client to implement the server-free backup

– Snapshot

• Multi-dimensional and flexible expansion– Capacity

– Performance

– File system

• High reliability– Active-active mode

– Automatic failover and failback

• Protocol support– NFS V2/V3

– CIFS

Install/Upgrade

CIFS/NFS Client

NAS Engines

Storage Units

IP

FC

Add/Delete



Introduction of N8000

Item N8300 N8500

Num of NAS engine

2-6 4-16

Clustering mode

Active-Active

Cache 8/16GB per NAS engine

Interface of network

4/6 per NAS engine

Interface of FC 2*4Gb per NAS engine

Max. capacity 7.68PB 15PB

Disk type SAS, FC,SATA

RAID RAID 0, 1,10, 5, 6

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Oceanspace N8300 clustered NAS storage system

Oceanspace N8500 clustered NAS storage system


Specifications

Item N8300 N8500

Protocols supported

Network protocol support FC, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, NDMP,

Management protocols SSH, SNMP,NIS, DNS, NTP,Email Alerts

File system attributes

Multi-protocol support Simultaneous CIFS and NFS

Maximum file system size 256TB

Maximum files per system Up to 200 million

RAID striping Automated Parallel RAID Striping and Multi-Pathing

Backup attributes

NDMP support yes

Backup typeSupport Clustered symantec netbackup clientfor SAN and LAN Connectivity

System management

RAID controller management

NAS management

Management interfaces N8000 ISM GUI, Command Line Interface(CLI)

Standard Features Dynamic storage tiering 、 Snapshot 、 Mirror 、 Clustered Veritas NetBackup Client






Agenda

• Introduction





• Cases


Unified storage

NAS

FC SAN

iSCSI FCNFS/CIFS

N8000Cluster NAS

File servers Database serversApplication servers

Applicable to requirements that requires lots of bandwidth

IP SAN

File-level access

Block-level access


• Active-Active mode

– Services are not interrupted when one or multiple heads fail.

– Heads can fail back automatically after recovering from failures.

• Fully redundancy design

– All the components are designed redundantly to facilitate online change.

• Data protection scheme

– Cache synchronization scheme

– Data safe technology

– Global lock management scheme allows all heads of the cluster to modify various parts of the same file.

High availability

IP

Windows user Unix user

N8000Cluster NAS

CIFS NFS


Extensibility

IP Network

Windows user Unix user

CIFS NFS

• Extending performance smoothly online

– Adding more heads smoothly and quickly online.

– Enhancing performance linearly.

– Enhancing the performance of individual heads by upgrading the hardware configuration.

• Extending the capacity of backend storage

– Extending the storage capacity online

– Adding more storage arrays online (the capacity is extended from the TB level to the PB level).

• Configuring the host port flexibly– Every head can provide 2–8 GE

service ports.

N8000Cluster NAS


All data sharing for multiple NAS engines

N8000Cluster NAS

IP

Service host

Hot spot data

Application server

active services

• The memory is shared by all heads

– Concurrent access to the hot spot data is shared by multiple heads

– The resources of heads are fully used.

• The head failure is transparent to services

– Automatic failover

– Uninterrupted services


Flexible configuration of backend disk types

• Support for multiple disk types

– Large capacity and low cost–500GB/750GB/1TB SATA disks

– High performance and reliability–146GB/300GB/450GB FC disks

– Low cost and high performance–146GB/300GB/450GB SAS disks

• Support for the mixed networking with disks of multiple types

– Disks of different types can be configured for the same system.

– The hierarchical storage is supported. FC SA

S

SATA

N8000Storage Units

FC

Storage Space


Dynamic tiering storage (DST)

Data that is rarely accessed

Primary storageFC

Secondary storage SATA

N8000memory

• The hot spot data is accessed from the high performance storage to enhance the system performance.

• Data that is rarely accessed is moved to inexpensive disks by screening files according to the policy.

• Moved data can be accessed from the inexpensive storage and is transparent to applications.

• Memory on the high performance storage can be further used.


FC

Cluster heads

Backend storage

FC/SATA Array 1

FC/SATA Array 2

Support for intra-array volume mirrors

• Support for multiple mirrors

– User data is written to multiple sets of arrays for storage at the same time.

• Adding or deleting mirrors dynamically

– Change the number of mirrors to meet service requirements.

• Services are ensured to run online unceasingly when a set of arrays fails.

Service host

IP network


N8000Cluster NAS

Mirror


Efficient backup solution

Tape/disk

Service network

N8000 Clustered NAS System/NBU Client

NBU backup server

Service host 1

Service host 2

Service host 3

Service host 4

• Backing up networks is simple.

• The backup strategy can be easily set up.

• Backing up networks is independent from service hosts, simplifying the backup process.

• Supporting the server-free backup without occupying any host resources.

Backup data flow


SnapShot

• Accelerate backup of file system

– Seconds to create backup copy

• Simple, easy to use

– Exact copy of online production data

– Can be used by other servers for read / write use

• Offers multiple recovery points– Up to 512 snapshots can be established against a

single source file system

• Benefits– PiT backup image– Data mining / analysis – Rapid restore of files– Application development and test

ProductionData

Production Data Tuesday

6:00 p.m.

Production Data Monday

6:00 p.m.

SnapShot: Create a point-in-time (PiT) copies of business data


Convenient management interface

• Centralized management– RAID management– NAS sharing– Dynamic storage tiering– SnapShot schedule

• Management and Maintenance– System monitor

– Support E-Mail 、 SNMP 、 Syslog warning






Agenda

• Introduction





• Cases


(1) Unified storage application: scenario

• Current Condition– Multiple service types.

– Storage is generally based on the DAS architecture

– New services are emerging.

– Explosive growth of data.

– Increasing capacity expansion and upgrade of the system.

• Requirement : Storage Integration– High performance data storage.

– Key services are stored through FC fiber-optic channels to protect the

storage performance.

– Non-key services are stored through the NAS and IP-SAN

architectures that can be deployed easily.


(1) Unified storage application: solution

• To integrate storage based on the different

requirements that services have on the

performance

– Bandwidth intensive applications• To protect the service performance through the storage network of

FC fiber-optic channels.

– Non-key services and data sharing services• To reduce the construction cost and deployment cost through the

IP-SAN and NAS ports.

• To store all service data to the N8000 uniformly

– Support for the dynamic expansion of 2-16 engine

nodes and the linear expansion of performance• To protect the investment of users.

– High throughput• To meet the performance requirements of all service hosts.

– A maximum usable storage capacity of 15PB• To meet the storage requirements of next ten years.

• To reduce the management cost of users

Service LAN

IP

FC

IP IP

FC FC

IP IP IP

IP IP IP

IP IP IP

IP IP IP

Manager

IP

Data center

FCIP

IP

IP

N8000

FC-SAN IP-SAN NAS


Unit NUnit 3Unit 2

(2) Centralized backup of remote data:scenario

• Current Condition– All production centers are located independently from each other.

– All production centers are based on different storage networks, including SAN, NAS,

DAS.

– Some production centers have set up backup systems with backup software from

different vendors.

• Requirement– The data of all production centers is backed up to the disaster backup center uniformly.

IP

IP

IP IP

Backup serverLEGATO

IP

Backup serverBackupEXEC

IP

IP-SAN

FC FC FC

FC

IP

IP

IP IP

Backup serverCommVault

NAS

Unit 1

FC-SAN


(2) Centralized backup of remote data: solution

• Deployment effects

– The high reliability of the N8000 ensure the security of data.

– The existing backup networking architecture is not changed.

– All units set up their own backup policies.

– The high performance of the N8000 ensures that the bandwidth is

enough for the networking.

– The performance in backing up data by multiple sub-units is not

restricted.

– A maximum storage capacity of 15PB is provided to meet the

requirements of disaster backup.

Manager

IP N8000

Disaster backup center

IP

IP

Unit NUnit 1 Unit 2

Unit NUnit 3Unit 2

IP

IP

IP IP

Backup server

LEGATOIP


IP

IP-SAN

FC FC FC

FC-SAN

FC

IP

IP

IP IP

Backup serverCommVault

NAS

Unit 1

IP Network

IP



(3) Storage of high performance computing:scenario

• Current Condition– Bottleneck in the performance of the disk I/O for high performance

computers• Single NAS storage array cannot meet the performance requirement of large

numbers of computing nodes.

• The CPU usage by computing nodes is 30%–50%

– Low reliability of the traditional NAS storage array• The traditional NAS storage array controller works in Active-Standby mode, and

thus the computing is interrupted when any one controller fails.

• Requirement– NAS storage solution with super high performance

• Extensible performance

– NAS storage equipment with high reliability• The computing is not affected when a storage controller fails.


(3) Storage of high performance computing: solution

IP

Manager

IP

IP

IPN8000

Computing center

IPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIPIP

Gigabit IP Network

Computing nodes

• High performance– Support for 2–16 Engine nodes.

– Overall performance grows linearly as the number of nodes increases.

• High reliability– All storage nodes work in

Active-Active mode, and thus the computing is not affected when a single node fails.

– Support for the automatic failback without affecting the computing.

• File sharing– The NFS- or CIFS-based

network sharing protocol allows all computing nodes to share the same file.


(4) Hierarchical storage: scenario

Service LAN

IP IP IP IP IP IP

IP IP IP

IP IP IP

IP IP IP

NASStorage array

Data center

IP IP IP

IP

IP Network

Online storage

• Current Condition

– Increasing cost of the storage

equipment

• The data amount of enterprises is

soaring by 30% –50% yearly.

• Enterprises are scaling the capacity

of storage arrays.

– Decreasing service performance

• Large amount of data is stored on

single storage volumes, costing

increasing time in retrieving data.

• Requirement

– Optimizing the primary storage data

to enhance the service performance

• To move the rarely-accessed data to

inexpensive storage arrays.

– Sustainable usability of the data

• The service host is able to access

the moved data anytime.


(4) Hierarchical storage: solution

• Upgrading the storage I/O

performance of service hosts

– To store hot spot data in the primary

storage array that has high performance.

– To migrate rarely-accessed or unused

data to the inexpensive storage array.

– The host is able to access data in the

secondary storage array without

migrating the data back to the primary

storage array.

• Readiness in operation

– The hierarchical storage is based on the

information life cycle management policy

(ILM).

– The data is migrated automatically and

dynamically without human interference.

• Millions of files can be migrated.

Service LAN

IP

FC

IP IP

FC FC

IP IP IP

IP IP

IP IP IP

IP IP IP

Data center

FC-SAN

FC

NAS

N8000

FC

FCFC

FC IP

Primary storage

Secondary storage


(5) Intra-array volume mirror: scenario

• Requirement of the NAS Storage Array

– All service hosts, based on the CIFS and NFS protocol, can access the shared

files.

• Requirements of high availability services

– To ensure that the host can access the storage arrays 24 hours every day

around the year.

– To protect the data locally without using backup software.

– To store the data to two or more storage arrays simultaneously.

– The NAS storage array controller works in Active-Active mode and has no single

point failure.

– The service is not interrupted when one storage array fails.


(5) Intra-array volume mirror: solution

Service LAN

IP

FC

IP IP

FC FC

IP IP IP

IP IP

IP IP IP

IP IP IP

Data center

FC-SAN

FC

NAS

N8000

FC

Storage array 1

Mirror volume 1

Mirror volume 2

Mirror volume 3

Storagearray 2

FCFC

FC IP

• To ensure the service reliability continuously

– To provide two–sixteen clustered NAS engine nodes to ensure that services are not interrupted when the single point failure occurs.

– The full redundancy design of the storage arrays.

– The redundancy deployment of the storage arrays ensures that services are not interrupted when a single array fails.


(6) Efficient backup: scenario

• Current Condition– The production center and the disaster backup center are

connected through an IP network.

– Low bandwidth for the network• 2Mbps–5Mbps

– Large amount of data• More than 1TB

• Requirement– Requiring the high performance FC-SAN and the NAS architecture

that supports the file sharing over the network.

– Backing data of the production center to a remote backup center.• No backup software is installed on the service host.

• The backup process occupies no CPU resource of the service host.


(6) Efficient backup solution

• The backup process does not affect the performance of the service host– The coupling of the N8000 and the NetBackup helps to transfer data to the disaster backup center

without occupying any storage transfer network.

• To scale down the backup window– Flexible backup policy: The daily incremental backup and monthly aggregate backup greatly reduce

the usage of the backup network.

• To reduce the cost of users and to simplify the deployment– No backup client is installed on the host.

Service LAN

IP

FC

IP IP

FC FC

IP IP IP

IP IP

IP IP IP

IP IP IP

Data center

FC-SAN

FC

NAS

N8000

FC IP

IP

Disaster backup center

FC/IP storage array

/Virtual tape library (VTL)

/Physical tape library

SymantecNetbackup

IP

IP

Manager

IP IP

WAN


(7) Extension of storage performance: scenario

• Current Condition

– Large amount of services for enterprises

– Services hosts, distributed in different geographical locations, are connected through the IP network.

– Service types are increasing and the amount of service access is soaring.

– Multiple storage devices are managed on central basis.

• Requirement: The performance and capacity of storage devices can be scaled.

– To expand the I/O performance of individual storage devices linearly by adding more components.

– To expand the storage capacity from the TB level to the PB level.


(7) Extension of storage performance: solution

• To meet the performance requirement of increasing services

– The online expansion of a maximum sixteen clustered NAS engine nodes is supported.

– The overall performance is scaled linearly along with the expansion of nodes.

• To meet the capacity requirement of increasing data

– The online expansion of storage capacity for service hosts is supported.

– More storage arrays can be added online.

• A maximum of 64 storage arrays is supported.

• A maximum of 15PB storage capacity is supported.

Data center

N8000

Service LAN

FCFC

FCFCFCFC

IP IP IP IP

FCFC

IP IP

IP IP IP IP

IP IP IP

IP

IP

IP IP

IP IPIP

IP IP

IP IP

NAS


(8) Net-Disk services: scenario

• Current Condition– Many servers in Enterprise / SMB – No backup system, servers backup data on local disk

– Expensive for purchasing a set of backup system

• Requirement• Backup important data in all servers• No backup client installed in business servers• Improve the security of files, any server can not read/write

the data of others server


(8) Net-Disk services: solution

• Solution overview– N8000 is added in Active Directory or NIS domain – N8000 allocate Net-Disks for every server– The servers backup the data to net disks termly by script or other method

• Solution benefits– Easy use for backing up the important data

• Using for data backup just like local disk

– Reduce the TCO• No need for a expensive backup system

– High data throughput• The throughput of more than 1GB, can meet the performance needs of many

servers’ data backup– Scalable performance and capacity

• N8000 providing increased perormance and capacity on demand

dir-1dir-2dir-3dir-4

share dir

N8000


(9) Optimize VMware Infrastructure with N8000 : scenario

• Requirement– Enterprise or SMB need virtual server for lot’s of servers consolidation, and

saving cost and simplifying– Deploying all business server rapidly– No single failure in the storage system


N8000 File System

(9) Optimize VMware Infrastructure with N8000 : solution

• Solution overview– The N8000 has connectivity with VMware through standard NAS protocols (NFS)– Snapshot of N8000 provides a new virtual machine(VM) in seconds

• Solution benefits– Deploy the business servers raplidly– Every VM sharing the same operation system data, reducing the storage capacity of VM– Efficient VM protection

• Dynamic storage tiering, migrate the VM from FC and SATA disk by file access frequency strategy • Native NDMP backup

– Simple management• Can deploy the same kind of VM in a directory (such as web application)

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OSN8000

x86 Architecturex86 ArchitectureVMware ESX Server

x86 Architecturex86 ArchitectureVMware ESX Server






Agenda

• Introduction





• Cases


Case1: High-Performance Storage System on China Mobile Music Platform

• Requirements– High reliability

• All components are redundant to eliminate single point failure and are designed with fault handling mechanism.

• Two sets of storage systems work in mirroring mode. In the case of a fault, the business system can fast switch over to the backup storage system.

– High performance: Provide the actual read performance above 1 GB/s.– Data sharing: Music files are shared on multiple service hosts. – Provide a large file system equal to or more than 50 TB to ease the data management and the

invocation of service hosts. • Huawei Symantec solution

– Configure two sets of N8500 cluster storage systems. Implement the data mirroring and improve the storage reliability.

– Each N8500 storage system is configured with four NAS servers and 60 TB storage capacity. available

– Allocate a 50 TB file system.

Digital music platform

Wireless


High-Performance Storage System on China Mobile Music Platform

Central Music Platform

Province Branch

WAN

IP Network

HuaSy N8000Cluster NAS

MediaServer

Mirror

• High reliability– NAS servers are in Active-Active mode, without

single point failure– Configure two sets of N8500 storage systems to

implement the data mirroring and ensure the service sustainability.

• High performance– A maximum of 1 GB/s throughput to meet the

user requirements for storage performance.

• Configure 50 TB file system– Reduce the complexity of file deployment

Advantages

Province Branch Province Branch


Case 2: Mass File Storage System on Taobao

• Background– Taobao is the largest network retailer in the Asia-Pacific region and is

founded in 2003 by Alibaba Group. By the end of 2008, Taobao had over 98 million registered members covering most of online procurement crowd in China. The trading volume in 2008 amounted to 99.96 billion yuan, accounting for 80% market share of China's online shopping market.

• Requirements– Provide non-structural file mass data storage for Taobao trade platform. – Data sharing: Over 500 servers can access the network sharing

storage space. – The storage system is highly reliable, flexible, and scalable, and can

reduce the pressure of boosting data. – High-speed data backup, decrease the backup windows.

• Huawei Symantec solution– Adopt the cluster NAS N8500 storage solution. Configure two sets of

N8500 cluster storage systems to meet the storage requirements for high reliability, performance, and scalability.

– Each N8500 storage system is configured with 12 cluster NAS servers. In total, 1496 TB storage capacity is configured.

– Through the NBU backup software built-in the N8500, the backup efficiency is improved.


Mass File Storage System on Taobao

Equipment Room-A Equipment Room-B

WAN

4×4Gb FC

IP Network

IP Network


NBUMaster server

SUN SL500Physical Tape

Library


Backup data stream


Mass File Storage System on Taobao

• High reliability– The NAS servers adopt the Active-Active mode to eliminate single point failure and ensure the

stable operation of user business systems.

• High performance– The measured performance of each N8500 is over 3 GB/s, meeting the storage throughput of

multiple business servers of the user.

• High scalability– The maximum storage capacity of single N8500 is up to 960 TB, meeting the data growth of

Taobao in 5 years.

• Effective data backup system– Build in NBU Media backup media software on four NAS servers of the N8500 to implement

the parallel data backup. – Compared with the traditional NDMP protocol backup mode, the backup efficiency is increased

nearly 4 times.

Advantages


Case 3: Cluster Storage System of Virtual Community of Shanghai Shengda Network

• Requirements– 80 servers with each loading five virtual servers.

– Each virtual server stores 30 GB files.

– Files of virtual servers can be saved in the NAS storage system.

– Feature high reliability, flexibility, and scalability.

– Can fast deploy files on virtual servers.

– Easy to manage, reduce the management cost.

• Huawei Symantec solution– Adopt the Clustered storage system N8300.

– Configure five N8300 NAS servers. Configure the NAS network

sharing interface protocol and 12 TB available storage capacity.

– Arrange 80 servers in five groups.

– Each NAS server is configured with four Gigabit Ethernet

interfaces, which are accessed in one group of servers through the

redundant path in network convergence mode to implement the

performance balancing.


Cluster Storage System of Virtual Community of Shanghai Shanda Network

App App

OS OS

ESX Server

NAS server

Storage unit

IP Switch

IP Switch

IP Switch

Community serversGroup 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5

HS N8300Cluster NAS

GE

GE×2

GE×2

• High reliability: no single point failure– Faults on any NAS server do not affect

services, thus ensuring the 7x24 sustainable operation.

• Storage performance: scalable– Expand the storage performance by adding

NAS servers or back-end storage arrays.

• Reducing management cost– Work closely with the ActiveDirectory, reduce

the complexity of the authority management.

• Fast deployment– Batch clone files of virtual servers through the

N8300. Able to clone files of a virtual server in 3 m.

VM VM

Files of virtual server

VM

VM VMVM

Advantages


Case 4: New Media Storage Project of CCTV

• Background– Since 2006, CCTV had began to build new media services based on the existing TV programs to provide

brand-new interactive programs to computer, TV and mobile phone users through the Internet, cable TV, wireless transmission networks, broadband networks, and mobile networks .

• Requirements– Adopt one high-performance NAS storage device for synthesis, transcoding, and distribution services.

– Excellent performance: Provide stable, fast, and simple data storage, search, sharing, and access services for multiple workstations, and increase the data switching speed.

– Sustainable access services: The storage system ensures 7x24 uninterrupted services.

– Data sharing: Multiple workstations can edit media in one file system at the same time.

– Stable I/O performance: Ensure that frame loss does not occur during the media data processing.

• Huawei Symantec solution– Adopt the cluster NAS N8300 storage solution to meet the requirements for high reliability, performance,

and scalability.

– Configure two NAS servers, CIF, NAS network sharing interface protocol, and 48 TB storage capacity.


New Media Storage Project of CCTV

• High reliability– Active-Active working mode. Faults on any NAS

server do not affect the service operation, thus ensuring the 7x24 sustainable service operation.

• High performance– N8300 cluster storage structure meets the storage

performance requirements of various media production services.

• High scalability– Storage performance can be scaled with NAS

servers.

– The maximum storage capacity can be scaled to 7PB.

• Stable performance– Stable I/O performance ensures zero frame loss

during the media production.

Databaseserver

Data migration

serverRecordingworkstation

Convergenceworkstation

Editingworkstation

Application managementworkstation

Transcodingworkstation

N8300 Clustered NAS

Media Production Platform

Advantages

IP Network


Case 5: Clustered Storage System on Digital Campus of Shanghai Ocean University

• Requirements– Ensure the high availability of data, implement the sustainable operation of

data services.

– Clustered data storage and simplified data management improves the

application system performance.

– Key database systems require high I/O performance and low delay.

– Partial services require information sharing.

– Implement the effective disk-based Clustered automatic data backup.

• Huawei Symantec solution– Adopt the Clustered storage system N8500.

– Configure four N8500 NAS servers. Configure FC-SAN, IP-SAN, and NAS

storage interfaces, and use 120 TB for online storage and 60 TB for backup

storage.

– Configure snapshot, DTS, Server Free backup client.

– Work with the Symantec NetBackup to implement the data backup

management.


Clustered Storage System on Digital Campus of Shanghai Ocean University

• The Clustered system provides the FC-SAN, IP-SAN, and NAS at the same time. Clustered storage eases the storage planning and saves user investment.

• High reliability: The Active-Active mode ensures the 7x24 sustainable operation on campus. • High performance: The N8500 cluster storage structure meets the storage performance requirements for various

services on campus. • Data access frequency-based DTS: The FC disk data are automatically moved to near line SATA disk, thus reducing

the user investment. • Adopt the advanced snapshot and built-in NBU backup software, thus implementing the effective data backup.

Advantages:

Backup Server

N8500Unified Storage

Linux Windows Unix Linux Windows Unix Linux Windows Unix

Backup MediaS5500

DR site

IP Networ

k

FC SAN IP SAN NAS


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