Huawei Connect: Huawei Update Next-Gen Business-Critical Cloud Storage FusionStorage

At Huawei Connect 2018, Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd. announced the update for its next-generation business-critical cloud storage FusionStorage.

It leverages technological innovation of storage software and fast compatibility with industry hardware, to provide performance, reliability, and on-demand storage resource services for mission-critical applications, helping enterprises manage challenges when migrating core businesses to the cloud. This is a product to support business-critical applications for enterprises in the cloud storage field.

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In addition to elastic scaling, scalability (performance and capacity), and simplified management, distributed storage provides reliability, performance, and a variety of value-added features, making it a choice for cloud data center construction and development. Consequently, carriers, financial institutions, and manufacturing organizations have deployed distributed storage to host their mission-critical applications when building large data centers. Distributed storage has seen its popularity rise among enterprises in the evolution of cloud data centers.

In the SPC Benchmark 1 full disclosure report released in June 2017, FusionStorage proved to provide performance in the distributed storage field. The performance of FusionStorage is more remarkable. It provides a latency of 300µs to meet rapid I/O response requirements of carrier core databases and financial online production services, ensuring high-speed and stable critical business operations. Based on a proprietary distributed architecture powered by Distributed Hash Tables (DHT), it supports a maximum of 4,096 nodes in a cluster and builds a centralized storage pool to host hundreds of petabytes of data, simplifying secondary data mining.

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FusionStorage delivers multi-level BC assurance solutions for users to deploy on demand. Equipped with a distributed gateway-free, active-active solution, it provides 99.9999% solution-level reliability to ensure uninterrupted business operations in virtualization and database scenarios. Additionally, this solution offers the industry asynchronous replication technology that supports second-level RPO for long-distance data protection scenarios.

For cost reduction and efficiency improvement, FusionStorage uses the core erasure code technology, EC Turbo, to automatically adjust the redundancy policy based on the storage cluster scale. It increases disk space utilization to 80% while maintaining an equivalent performance with the traditional three-copy redundancy mode.

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It is a distributed storage to boast both high disk utilization and performance. Even in database application scenarios, FusionStorage delivers 3:1 data reduction, helping customers save on storage space. In addition, it can replace hardware without the need to migrate data, ensuring ever-new storage systems.

Moreover, FusionStorage offers enterprise ecosystem compatibility. Supporting enterprise iSCSI, it is compatible with virtualization platforms and Linux applications, as well as Unix and Windows systems. It uses a simple storage pool to accommodate the complex mixed-load storage demands.

In addition, as the common infrastructure of Huawei Cloud and FusionCloud services, FusionStorage provides a native cloud storage to help enterprises distribute data both off-premises (in public clouds) and on-premises (in enterprise private cloud data centers).

Since its first release in 2012, FusionStorage distributed cloud storage has served thousands of enterprise users worldwide, accelerating their digital transformation. The capacity in commercial use exceeds 3EB.

China Merchants Bank is one of these customers. It used FusionStorage to build a distributed cloud storage resource pool that provided efficient, stable storage services for OLAP, OLTP, and intelligent data analysis services, improving the resource provisioning speed by 10 times and reducing TCO by 40%.

China Mobile Liaoning deployed FusionStorage to house more than 10PB of data, facilitating the architecture shift from traditional centralized to a general distributed for critical databases of its Business Support System (BSS) and Operations Support System (OSS) as well as B2B service cloud resource pools.

Meng Guangbin, president, IT storage product line, Huawei, spoke about FusionStorage: “FusionStorage adopts leading technologies in offering optimal performance, reliability, and enterprise ecosystem compatibility at lower costs. It will help enterprises, at all levels, in nearly all industries to achieve data-driven service innovation“.

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2018.10.19 | Press Release