Oceanspace N8000 clustered NAS storage product (short for N8000) is designed to satisfy customer's demand of integrated data storage. It adopts cutting edge technology and modularized design, which is well suited for customers' flexible storage demands. N8000 integrates advantages of both SAN and NAS. In front end, N8000 supports multiple protocols such as FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS and provides flexible nodes expansion which better satisfies customers' different demands. In back end, it supports flexible expansion and achieves maximum 8PB capacity. OceanStor N8000 provides professional integrated storage solution for customer and makes high utilization of storage resources.
N8000 features: superior performance, high reliability, flexible scalability and ease to use. Its typical scenarios include high-performance computing, database, website, file service, streaming media, digital video surveillance, and file backup.
Typical application scenario:
◆ High Reliability
◇ 2-8 nodes supported. Active-Active mode is used among all clustered NAS nodes.
◇ Full redundant fiber channel is adopted between N8000 nodes and back-end storage arrays, ensures business continuity.
◇ Clustered gateway adopts synchronous cache mechanism to ensure data consistency.
◇ N8000 adopts full-locked management mechanism, which allows different parts of a specific document to be revised at the same time by multiple clustered nodes.
◇ Storage array supports pre-copy function, so system can forecast hard drive failures or problems and migrate data to hot spare disk before damage occurs.
◆ High Performance
◇ Single node of N8000 supports 270MB/s (test in user environment). N8000 performance supports linear growth with the increasing of node number and performance of typical 8 nodes configuration reaches 2.1GB/s.
◇ Large cache capacity (8GB/node or 16GB/node).
◇ Redundant FC connection between clustered node and back-end storage array, ensures no performance bottleneck.
◇ All N8000 nodes support load balance function.
◆ High Expansibility
◇ N8000 supports 2-8 NAS nodes. Overall performance can be improved through on-line, smoothly, rapidly expanding cluster node.
◇ N8000 supports on-line expansion of storage quantity and capacity. Maximum 60 enclosures disk and 8000TB capacity are supported.
◇ FC, SAS, SATA and mixed are supported, meets different information management tiers of data storage.
◆ Storage Partition Function
◇ N8000 supports ILM of data storage: files is selected in terms of planed strategy, migrating data that is not long-term visited to low-cost near line storage, hot data are still kept in high-performance storage array.
◇ The data of near-line storage array is usable for host. Host can visit disk array at anytime. There is no need to move data from near-line storage to on-line storage.
◆ Server－Free backup method
◇ No need of installing agent of backup software on host server.
◇ Data is saved to the backup- medium-sever through N8000 equipment directly.
◆ Integration of multi-protocol
◇ N8000 provides a unified storage platform which efficiently integrates NAS, FC SAN and IP SAN together. It supports flexible networking to satisfy different needs of application system.
◆ Ease of maintenance
◇ When clustered nodes increasing, the gateway of clustering NAS will configure the increased nodes automatically and achieve loading-balance automatically without human intervention.
◇ Automatic failure warning system: N8000 supports multiple warning methods such as Email, SNMP, syslog and message alarm to prevent device failure from being missed or neglected, which may simplify the efficiency of maintenance.
