Huawei NoF+

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2021: Combine storage and network switches for network storage

On October 27, 2021, the Huawei company, a global provider infrastructures it is information of communication technologies intellectual and devices, introduced a solution for high-performance storage systems and transmission for data NoF+ Data Center. 

The NoF+ is based on current ceanStor Dorado storage systems and CloudEngine data center network switches, which have proven to be a flash storage solution. The combination of all-flash storage technologies and a hyperconvergent Ethernet platform has changed the approach used in traditional dedicated storage networks, improving performance and ease of use.

Liu Jianning: "NoF+ is a highway that can be used for a fairly wide range of scenarios"

"Technology-based applications generate large streams of information that place high demands on the network and storage systems. The growth of cloud solutions and the increasing use of flash storage have led to a lack of network resources. Decades of development have allowed Huawei engineers to modernize Ethernet technology using machine learning and significantly accelerate information flows using artificial intelligence. As a result, we were able to increase the data transfer rate between storage systems inside the data center and use a single universal network for this. We have created a high-speed backbone that can be used for a sufficiently broad set of scenarios, " says Liu Jianning, vice president of the marketing and sales department of Huawei data transmission systems.

One of the most pressing challenges in the IT industry is the reliability of network storage. To provide it, you need a mechanism that can instantly failover a failed component. However, standard Ethernet solutions do not have proactive fault detection and alerting features. The NoF+ solution combines storage systems and network switches into a single entity, and also demonstrates a failure response rate of one second.

intellectual algorithms With lossless performance, limits are set in real-time time to meet current storage needs in line with the demand forecast for services. This ensures zero packet loss and eliminates volatility in scenarios where high throughput is required.

The solution is also easy to use. Working together, Huawei network devices and storage form a plug-and-play solution that automatically increases capacity and starts hardware. Therefore, in the future there will be no obstacles with the expansion of the storage network. The solution also implements end-to-end data optimization in data centers.

According to the company, the algorithm NoF+ improves I/O performance by 85%, and due to interaction with Dorado, the delay is reduced to 0.05 ms. At the same time, reliability is ensured by the possibility of switching between the active and standby servers in a matter of seconds.

The NoF+ solution was the result of the work of Huawei engineers on the transformation of the storage network. The ability to integrate real-time storage, networking, and computing hardware makes the solution open and compatible.

"The Huawei highway NoF+ solves a number of pressing industry problems and can become the basis for the sustainable development and processing of information flows using AI.  NoF+, created through machine learning, allows to unlock the potential of AI and contribute to the development of industries that use big data, " sure Liu Jianning.