Huawei OceanStor V3 Convergent DWH for cloud infrastructures

Huawei OceanStor V3 - convergent DWH for cloud infrastructures.

2019: DWH of all-flash OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 and DWH of all-flash OceanStor Dorado with NVMe support

On March 1, 2019 the company Huawei provided storage system (DWH) the initial all-flash OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 level and also DWH of the average and highest level like all-flash OceanStor Dorado with support of Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe). These solutions are characterized by the high performance, complex corporate functionality and efficiency. Storage systems meet the requirements databases infrastructures of a virtual desktop (VDI), infrastructures virtual servers (VSI) and other scenarios of use that helps to improve DPCs, bringing closer them to all-flash era, emphasized in Huawei.

The solutions Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 of the average and highest level (including OceanStor Dorado5000 V3, OceanStor Dorado6000 V3 and OceanStor Dorado18000 V3) maintain architecture of NVMe which provides faster interaction between solid state drives (SSD) and a server system and also considerably reduces value of a delay that increases service quality. The solutions OceanStor Dorado of the average and highest level are characterized by a delay – 0.3 milliseconds, noted in Huawei.

According to the statement of the developer, the solution OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 uses FlashLink technology for ensuring stable work even in peak hours. The intellectual multilegal interface chip supports client (front-end) protocols of 32 Gbit/s FC and 100GE while the Huawei Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) intelligent controller it is unified manages the central processor, memory and other components that reduces fault recovery term from two to ten o'clock minutes.

The solution OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 with complex functionality for the enterprises uses technologies of alignment of wear for ensuring stable and reliable operation of the solid state drive. The RAID-TP technology copes with simultaneous failure in three solid state drives. The Bezshlyuzovy solution of "active-active" type provides almost absolute reliability (99.9999%). Besides, the solution Converged Data Management (CDM) provides bezshlyuzovy disaster recovery and reservation based on a cloud and also recovery of service in a cloud (minute-level) in a few minutes. The increased availability of service is provided due to use of the numerous technologies guaranteeing stability of work claim in Huawei.

According to the developer, also uses the solution OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 inlaynovy (inline) technologies of deduplication and compression to lower costs for energy consumption, cooling, management and operation that cuts down the total operating expenses on 65%. It gives, according to Huawei, significant savings in deployment of systems in big scales. Besides, the solution OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 is compatible to more than three hundred popular storage devices and also 98% of IT infrastructures in the industry, at the same time it does not require change of the existing services. It promotes free updating, simplifies maintenance and operation and accelerates transformation of data processing centers.

"The solution OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 allows the enterprises to take advantage of the all-flash platform at low price without prejudice to performance and scalability. We used all-flash storage system to help clients to create effective resources of data storage from the different industries". William Dong, director of the department of Enterprise Data Center Marketing & Solution Sales of division of Huawei Enterprise

2018

Certification of OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 for work with SAP HANA

On June 26, 2018 the Huawei company announced that the storage system like all-flash (AFA) OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 was certified for work with the platform of data SAP HANA. The OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 system supports up to 200 SAP HANA nodes. Thanks to the performance and reliability of OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 it is capable to support work of key SAP applications at clients and to accelerate processing of basic data (core data), consider in Huawei.

СХД Huawei OceanStor Dorado18000 V3

OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is the flagman solution in a line of Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 based on which the enterprises can create platforms of data processing in combination with SAP HANA. The solution of Huawei is capable to transform the traditional database to the SAP HANA database which cornerstone calculations of in-memory are that does not influence operation and business processes in any way, noted in Huawei.

The solution of Huawei for the SAP HANA platform uses the advanced servers and storage systems for complex schemes of creation of TDI infrastructure "on demand".

OceanStor Dorado18000 V3

In February, 2018 Huawei during the World mobile congress (MWC2018) provided OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 – a high-performance intelligent system of data storage like all-flash (AFA) for crucial corporate services.

"Internet of Things, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies create both new opportunities, and calls, – told Joy Huang, the vice president of Huawei IT Product Line. – The companies aim to increase constantly quality of client service and for this reason data management purchases the increasing value. The new high-performance intelligent system of data storage like all-flash (AFA) OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is focused on work with crucial services of level of telecom operators. The division of Huawei Storage does everything possible to become the leader in the area a flash - the focused cloud highly intellectual storage systems".

The storage system of OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is developed for the high-loaded crucial service systems of the enterprises. Thanking a flash - the focused operating system the solution is capable to realize potential a flash memory. Patent the flash processors of Huawei and an algorithm FlashLink provide performance at the level of 7 million IOPS (input-output transactions) with permanent value of a delay of 0.5 ms. Performance of new model is twice higher, than at her predecessors. She uses HyperMetro technology in the active-active mode. Resources of storage of two objects in the active-active mode service the same applications that guarantees round-the-clock operation of key services. The Besshlyuzovy solution HyperMetro existing in the active-active mode was officially certified by SAP. Thanks to value of a delay lower than 1 ms it is capable to support reliable work of the SAP HANA platform that does it by an optimal solution for crucial services of the enterprise. Use a solution flash for acceleration from Huawei helped Hi3G Sweden to increase system performance by 300%, to reduce the total ownership cost (TCO) more than by 50% and to ensure round-the-clock operation of crucial services.

In storage system the Flash-Ice technology on the basis of graphene dispersion is used (graphene dissipation technology, GDT) and a dynamic algorithm of a heat balance (dynamic heat balance algorithm) on solid state drives (SSD). It allows to increase dispersion of heat by 500 times and to prolong service life of solid state drives for 20%. The storage system of OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is suitable for key services of operator level, such as online billing in real time, CRM and ERP, thereby allowing to expand a subscriber base. A system supports the built-in data compaction (inline data reduction) without prejudice to performance and guarantees compaction ratio of data 3:1, thereby increasing performance ten times and helping clients to reduce investment volume and to increase their profitability (ROI). Besides, according to consulting company ESG, the OceanStor Dorado system is capable to provide to users 75% economy on total ownership cost.

The solution like "DWH as service"" (Storage-as-a-Service, STaaS) supports free mobile access and the unified data management in the territory of the enterprise and beyond its limits that allows to implement deployment of client applications. To help clients to transfer more services to a cloud, Huawei integrates the cloud functionality and corporate technologies of storage to provide specialized service of corporate storage (Dedicated Enterprise Storage Service, DESS) and to offer transfer of crucial services in a cloud without modifications.

Explosive growth of amounts of data and difficult service environments complicates management of DWH. To eliminate this barrier, in a storage system of OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 the system of intellectual management eService was installed. At the expense of a global network covering and technology of "deep learning" of HUAWEI CLOUD eService optimizes management processes of DWH on the basis of artificial intelligence technologies and Big Data, implementing no-touch deployment, adaptation and diagnostic service of services. For example, the eService system is capable to expect restrictions on performance and capacity and to quickly find optimal solutions.

2017

Testing of functions of deduplication on the fly and compression

According to the results of real testing of functions of deduplication on the fly and compression (SmartDedupe & SmartCompression) of the Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 system using popular scenarios of deployment of a DB of Oracle the coefficient of reduction of data 7.6:1 was reached that means saving 87% of space. The indicator much more exceeds the coefficient stated to Huawei in 3:1 which is rather guaranteed bottom level. It is possible to study results of testings here in more detail.

Joint all-flash-solution of Huawei and Hundsun for transaction processing acceleration

On September 15, 2017 the companies Huawei also Hundsun Technologies provided all-flash- the solution for transaction processing acceleration.

The presentation of the joint solution during Huawei Connect 2017

Technologies as a part of the solution

The solution is created based on a storage system of OceanStor Dorado V3 of the All-flash type and the UF 2.0 platform, allows to seize fully the opportunities of solid state drives and provides low value of a delay at data processing (0.5 ms). Besides, technologies of data storage all-flash and the optimized technologies of parallel processing of data are involved in the solution.

Creation premises

In security market trillions of transactions are daily carried out, and any failures in service lead to very serious effects. Requirements to IT systems become more and more tough — are necessary for traders instant transactions and an opportunity to perform operations in real time. Traditional architecture of storage systems do not answer these requests.

Appointment

According to developers, the All-flash-solution based on OceanStor Dorado V3 is capable to process 14 thousand transactions per second, reducing value of a delay by 80% and providing quadruple increase in volumes of transactions in comparison with the traditional systems. DWH of OceanStor Dorado V3 of the All-flash type is compatible to RAC technology (Real Application Clusters) from Oracle and provides creation of a bezshlyuzovy (gateway-free) data processing center with all active nodes (active-active). In case of single failure services switch for read seconds, guaranteeing uninterrupted service.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 is certified as corporate solution for the SAP HANA platform

In May, 2017 the Huawei company announced that its flash - the storage system of OceanStor Dorado V3 underwent certification of SAP as corporate solution for the SAP HANA platform. The OceanStor Dorado V3 system with two controllers supports up to 18 SAP HANA nodes, and consolidation of functionality of two advanced developments allows to achieve high reliability.

Thanks to the best practices of Huawei connected with the software of SAP, the OceanStor Dorado V3 system is capable to increase system performance, SAP working based on the software, by 30% and above with reduction of time of a database request to microseconds that accelerates processing of online transactions in networks and analytics in real time.

SAP HANA represents the database in real time which cornerstone the technology of calculations in-memory ensuring functioning of the platform of storage and data processing for transactions, a business intelligence, predictive analytics, planning and processing of the commercial information is. SAP HANA is used in the industry, financial, state and many other sectors. High performance of this platform allows clients to cope with the growing amount of data and more and more high requirements for efficiency of storage, noted in Huawei.

The OceanStor Dorado V3 system is capable to support twice more SAP HANA nodes, than traditional storage systems of the same capacity that allows to make more flexibly vertical and horizontal scaling of the SAP HANA nodes. The OceanStor Dorado V3 system is equipped with such additional functionality as gateway-free HyperMetro in the active-active mode, replication and lossless snapshot. The solution HyperMetro increases availability of business, groups of consistency within remote replication provide integrity of data for disaster recovery in SAP applications. The Lossless snapshot function, in turn, allows to create quickly the systems of developments and testing of SAP. The numerous patents of Huawei providing reliability a flash memory increase service life of flash drives three times.

In general, as noted, certification represents an important stage of partnership of Huawei and SAP. Using opportunities of extensive working experience of SAP in the field of platforms and corporate solutions and also analytical data on the market, Huawei intends to work together with SAP on development of a series of solutions based on SAP HANA. They are designed to expand opportunities for data processing in real time and data analysis and, as a result, to increase operational performance and to accelerate digital transformation.

2016

Huawei OceanStor 9000

2015

Huawei OceanStor V3

On April 29, 2015 the Huawei company announced release of the unified, completely convergent data warehouse of Huawei OceanStor V3. The product offers all necessary functions for work with data of the enterprises of any scale^[1].

DWH of OceanStor V3, 2014

Features of a system, according to the statement of Huawei:

• safety of information storage,
• flexibility.

A system is focused on use in the different industries:

• financial sector,
• bodies of authority and management,
• power,
• large manufacturing enterprises,
• transport,
• education
• telecommunication companies.

The solution works as with a virtual, and physical environment, without add-on hardware modules supports functions of virtualization of data warehouses of third-party producers, integrating diverse storage systems in a uniform resource pool and simplifying administration of IT infrastructure.

By means of use of RAID 2.0 technology data processing rate, their recovery at accidents, can exceed by 20 times averages on the industry indicators, the staff of vendor noted, reliability of the operator class "five nine" (99.9999%) provides high system availability. The architecture of multicontroller redundancy eliminates a possibility of emergence of one point of failure that increases reliability of a system in general, and uniform distribution of data on disks prevents an overload.

The equipment is steady against accidents and supports the modes of synchronous and asynchronous replication between geographically spaced platforms, data recovery in standby system happens within five seconds. Construction of a system is expected nine-mark earthquakes (the data of the company).

Huawei OceanStor 6800 V3

For April, 2015 Huawei offers the operating system focused on a cloud computing architecture as a part of OceanStor 6800 V3.

High-performance hardware platform and full range of the software for intellectual management.

DWH of Huawei OceanStor 6800 V3 (2015)

Scaling to eight controllers, a cache 4 TB, capacity of storage is 12.8 PB PB, a set of interfaces, including 16 Gbit/s FC, 56 Gbps of IB, PCIe 3.0, 12 Gbps of SAS and intellectual I/O cards.

High-level storage systems of OceanStor 6800 V3 are safe solutions for the big OLTP/OLAP databases, shared access to files or cloud computing in the government, financial, telecom, power and media industries.

Functionality

• Convergence in five areas is provided: SAN and NAS, devices of different type, from initial level to high-level storage systems, HDD and SSD, storage and backup
• The simple platform of management services several models of the equipment with the graphical interface and iOS and Android is available to Windows,
• Protection of initial investments of the customer and decrease in TCO for a set of applications, different models of products and rapid growth of business