The main benefit of OceanStor Pacific multi-protocol lossless interworking feature is not reducing the footprint of hardware, but eliminating the need for data copy among different systems. OceanStor Pacific has a multi-protocol lossless interworking feature that allows one copy of data to be shared with multiple services using different protocols such as NFS, SMB, S3, or HDFS. This feature avoids data copy among different systems, which improves the efficiency and performance of data access and analysis. It also simplifies the management and reduces the complexity of the system. Reducing the footprint of hardware is a secondary benefit of this feature, as it lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO) with less hardware investment, power consumption, and maintenance costs.

The reason why backup storage capacity is larger than production storage is not that backup storage stores multiple copies of production data, but that backup storage stores multiple versions of production data. Backup storage provides data protection for production data by creating backup images at different points in time. These backup images can be used to restore production data in case of any data loss or corruption. Backup storage usually stores more versions of production data than production storage itself, which makes backup storage capacity larger than production storage capacity.

The advantages of Huawei OceanProtect over traditional backup storage are rapid backup, rapid recovery, high reliability, and efficient reduction. OceanProtect can provide fast backup and recovery performance by using front-end network optimization, CPU computing optimization, back-end network optimization, and intelligent scheduling technologies. OceanProtect can also ensure high reliability by using RAID-TP technology that can tolerate the simultaneous failures of three disks in a RAID group. Moreover, OceanProtect can achieve high data reduction ratio by using deduplication and compression technologies that can reduce the backup data size by up to 90%.

The common benefit of multiple-protocol interworking and hybrid-workload support of OceanStor Pacific is that it allows customers to use only one storage system for different types of data and applications, such as file, object, HDFS, big data analytics, backup and archiving, video surveillance, and media production. This simplifies the management and reduces the data copy among different systems, which improves the efficiency and lowers the cost. Reference: [OceanStor Pacific Series Technical White Paper]

OceanStor Pacific does not adopt a full symmetric architecture. OceanStor Pacific adopts a distributed architecture that consists of multiple nodes that are interconnected by a network. Each node has its own storage resources and computing resources, and can provide data services independently or collaboratively. The distributed architecture provides high performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency for unstructured data storage.