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HF18000G7
HF18000G7

HF18000G7

The HF18000G7 storage platform, powered by a new-generation processor, is a high-end storage platform designed for enterprise core applications. It offers lower latency, higher performance, and stronger resilient scalability. Utilizing a Full-mesh interconnected architecture and support for multiple hardware configurations, it features high-speed bus full interconnection, intelligent flash optimization algorithms, and the infinistor® intelligent management platform. This enables the system to achieve extreme performance while simplifying management, providing customers with a superior service. The HF18000G7 storage platform supports connectivity with multiple clouds, effectively ensures data security, and accelerates enterprise cloud migration. It achieves leading levels in performance, functionality, reliability, and ease of use compared to industry products in its class, effectively meeting data storage, disaster recovery, active-active, and backup requirements for various applications such as large and medium-sized database OLTP/OLAP, virtualization, and file sharing. It is widely suitable for industries including enterprise, finance, telecommunications, energy, media, healthcare, and education.


Key Features
Yuanpan Architecture

Yuanpan Architecture

1. Architecture Upgrade: Employs the innovative Yuanpan architecture, flexibly supporting various physical deployment modes such as 2-controllers-in-1-array, 4-controllers-in-1-array, and 4-controllers-in-2-arrays, adapting to diverse business scales and scenarios, and ensuring stable and reliable core operations. Technologies like intelligent IO awareness, intelligent self-developed multi-path, intelligent resource scheduling, and intelligent data organization are utilized. Combined with the intelligent software of the HF8000G7 storage platform, such as intelligent cache acceleration, intelligent tiering, and intelligent QoS, it significantly enhances application efficiency and provides strong support for the storage system.

2. Specification Upgrade: Each array can be expanded to a maximum of 28 IO slots and 112 host interfaces. The aggregated mirroring bandwidth between controllers reaches up to 1.2TB/s, easily handling high-bandwidth, low-latency business demands and fully unleashing storage performance.

3. Full-mesh Interconnection: Meets high-performance and high-stability design requirements through key features like multi-form factor compatibility, 4-controller cyclic mirroring, global load balancing, and full sharing of backend resources. The system supports multi-form factor compatible design, with one software stack perfectly compatible with three physical forms: 2-controllers-in-1-array, 4-controllers-in-1-array, and 4-controllers-in-2-arrays. Controllers use an Active-Active architecture, supporting both owned and unowned volumes, achieving load balancing between controllers, eliminating controller performance bottlenecks. It supports continuous failures of multiple controllers (e.g., 3 out of 4 failed, 7 out of 8 failed), enhancing system availability and ensuring business continuity.

Powerful Performance

Powerful Performance

1. Equipped with the latest iTurbo 7.0 intelligent engine: Leverages intelligent CPU core partitioning technology, dedicating specific cores to ensure data IO read/write performance, while non-critical operations like web management and alerts are handled by shared cores, effectively improving CPU utilization. Uses intelligent IO awareness technology to intelligently identify the optimal path and automatically direct I/O to the best node. Intelligent hot/cold data shunting improves data processing efficiency. Proactively predicts future user data needs through cache pre-fetching, reducing key business latency by 50%. The intelligent resource pool lock-free function increases the number of resource pools and optimizes cores per pool, reducing performance loss caused by traditional resource request lock conflicts, significantly boosting CPU efficiency and concurrent processing capability, achieving a 200% performance increase compared to the previous generation.

2. Supports up to 96TB of cache: Coupled with intelligent IO awareness algorithms and intelligent cache partitioning functionality, it improves cache hit rates, enhances read/write capabilities for hot data, reduces IO bottlenecks, and increases system throughput and concurrent processing capability.

3. Supports intelligent cache acceleration: Places frequently used data on SSDs for fast access. Supports intelligent QoS, enabling upper/lower limit and burst control for IOPS, bandwidth, and latency,rationally allocating storage resources and ensuring quality of service for critical businesses.

4. Employs multi-path intelligent distribution design: Reduces data forwarding between controllers and shortens IO transmission paths, improving processing efficiency. RoCE interconnection between controllers utilizes the RDMA communication mechanism to reduce latency for inter-controller message or data transmission. Uses a resource pool lock-free design to reduce lock conflicts during resource requests across multiple cores, improving CPU core operating efficiency and performance.

Stability and Reliability

Stability and Reliability

1. Secure and Reliable System Architecture: Uses the new Yuanpan architecture, industry-first in supporting three physical deployment modes (2-in-1, 4-in-1, 4-in-2) simultaneously in a high-end storage platform, meeting different scale business needs. Particularly for core business scenarios in finance, enterprise, healthcare, etc., the 2-controllers-in-2-arrays deployment across two nodes ensures business continuity even during a single cabinet power loss, providing reliable protection for stable core operations. Supports second-level controller failure switchover, improving overall reliability by 75%. Supports 4-controller cross-array and cross-cabinet deployment for fault domain isolation, ensuring business continuity in extreme scenarios like chassis or entire cabinet power loss.

2. Redundant and Reliable Hardware Platform: Employs a fully redundant architecture, fully modular design, supports hot-swappable components throughout the system, and full redundancy for key parts, enabling online maintenance without downtime. Uses a passive backplane and built-in dual system disks to improve system reliability, supports online hardware expansion and version upgrades without reboots. Configurable 1+1 redundant power modules, supports both current sharing redundancy and active-standby redundancy modes for better energy efficiency. Paired with large capacity BBU batteries, supports continuous storage power loss protection for up to 2 events, ensuring Cache data can be temporarily saved to the system disk during power loss. Supports quick storage restart within 10 minutes after power restoration following one power loss event. Supports automatic configuration of chassis-level redundancy capability, ensuring normal data read/write access even if a single disk enclosure fails, and business continuity. Supports hot-swapping for controllers, disks, power supplies, fans, BBUs, FC/Ethernet/RoCE/NVMe/SAS cards, etc., enhancing maintainability of system components.

3. Data Redundancy and Fast Recovery: Intelligent RAID technology distributes data blocks and spare blocks across all member disks in the RAID array, eliminating the concept of a dedicated hot spare disk. Rebuilding time for 1TB of data is reduced to minutes, significantly lowering the risk of RAID failure during subsequent disk failures and enhancing system reliability. Distributed RAID technology supports up to three simultaneous disk failures, effectively ensuring data security.

4. Reliable Data Disaster Recovery Protection Solutions: Supports various data disaster recovery protection schemes such as snapshots, remote replication, active-active, and 3-data-center disaster recovery solutions. Its reliable hardware platform, combined with rich software features and mature, stable disaster recovery solutions, achieves RPO=0 and RTO≈0.

5. Stable Hardware Design: Based on high-end hardware design standards and stability criteria such as seismic resistance ratings, it possesses a 9-degree seismic resistance capability. It has also passed third-party authoritative reliability tests, with the storage system's mean time between failures (MTBF) exceeding 200,000 hours.


Intelligent and Efficient

Intelligent and Efficient

1. infinistor® Intelligent Management Platform: The infinistor® management platform is intelligent management software for data centers, unifying the management of various devices like storage, switches, hosts, and virtual machines. Using big data and AI technologies, it builds an intelligent O&M management platform, supporting automated storage platform deployment, asset status monitoring, asset capacity forecasting, storage performance optimization, remote asset inspection,fault diagnosis, storage disk prediction, asset management, storage "3-data-center" disaster recovery, etc., enabling intelligent operations. Provides scheduled intensive snapshot protection, supports multi-copy replication, easily building cross-device disaster recovery, adding an extra layer of data security.

2. Intelligent Heterogeneous Virtualization: Leverages heterogeneous virtualization functionality to take over 95% of storage models in the industry, eliminating platform differences and enabling storage reuse. Existing storage systems can utilize this system's advanced features like intelligent online compression, intelligent thin provisioning, intelligent online deduplication, etc., improving capacity utilization in the storage pool. Enhances data mobility, eliminates data silos, and enables unified resource management, significantly reducing management complexity and lowering customer TCO.

3. Intelligent Thin Provisioning: Configures full-capacity license thin provisioning, resources are allocated on-demand with thin provisioning. Adjustable thin provisioning granularity (32k, 64k, 128k, 256k), greatly improving storage resource utilization. Single volume supports up to 512TB; future expansion does not require additional licenses, reducing customer TCO.

4. Intelligent Cache Acceleration: Supports secondary cache starting from 1 SSD, supports up to 32 cache partitions, meeting the performance needs of different applications, improving overall storage performance, and eliminating performance bottlenecks in complex application environments.

5. Intelligent Local Replication: Replication includes three local data protection functions: intelligent clones, SAN and NAS intelligent snapshots, and intelligent backup, meeting needs for application testing, development, analysis, backup, etc., effectively saving storage space and reducing investment costs.

6. Intelligent Volume Mirroring: Creates a mirror for volumes mapped to hosts, keeping two identical copies of data in two different storage pools. If any copy is damaged, it provides uninterrupted application IO access.

7. Intelligent Tiering: Supports multi-level data tiering, enabling online migration of hot data between different storage media. Data can be dynamically balanced within the same tier, achieving a balance between storage cost and performance, improving customer ROI.

8. Intelligent Service Assurance: Dynamically manages volume read/write performance based on different application IO requirements, allocating on-demand to meet the performance needs of diverse applications.

9. Intelligent Online Compression: Achieves data deduplication and compression based on CPU-built-in compression engines. Each controller board has 8 QAT compression engines. The compression process does not occupy CPU resources and increases throughput by over 30%, reducing costs by 50%. Data compression ratio can be as high as 5:1, significantly improving resource utilization efficiency and markedly lowering storage costs.

10. Intelligent Disaster Recovery Replication: Provides three replication technologies: synchronous, asynchronous, and periodic asynchronous. Optimizes for IP links, adjusting window quantity and virtual link count via AI algorithms to enhance performance over highly unstable links, meeting diverse customer RTO and RPO requirements, and protecting business continuity.

11. Intelligent Storage Active-Active: Provides active-active solutions across data centers, supporting SAN and NAS storage active-active (Gateway-free), achieving RTO≈0 and RPO=0, ensuring zero data loss and zero business interruption for customers.

12. Intelligent Cloud Tiering: Industry-unique cloud tiering technology with unique hybrid cloud storage capabilities, providing cloud cache, cloud disaster recovery, cloud backup functions. Enables data backup to the cloud without purchasing backup software, reducing backup complexity and effectively protecting customer data security. Fully integrates with cloud vendors like Alibaba Cloud and OpenStack. Combines the cost-effectiveness and scalability of cloud storage with local data center architecture, helping customers seamlessly move data between local data centers and public clouds.

13. Intelligent Multi-Tenancy: Isolates applications and services between different tenants through virtualization, database isolation, and other technologies, protecting their privacy and security.

14. Data Consistency: End-to-end support from host port to disk for hardware-based, industry-standard T10-PI (Protection Information) data consistency checking, comprehensively ensuring data consistency and avoiding data loss caused by media corruption.

15. Intelligent Data Destruction: Enables one-click intelligent data destruction via DoD (Department of Defense) and custom patterns, ensuring the security of user confidential data.

16. Intelligent Online Deduplication: Significant duplicate data often exists in business data. The intelligent online deduplication feature identifies duplicate data and performs deduplication as data is written to disk. Duplicate user data is stored only once on the disk, improving disk space utilization and effectively reducing user costs.


Technical Specifications

Model

 HF18000G7

 Configuration Code

 HF18000G7-F-M2D

 HF18000G7-F-M2Q

 Control Cabinet

 4U dual-controller architecture with drive-controller separation

 4U quad-controller architecture with drive-controller separation

 Extension Cabinet

 JBOD: 2U25, SAS protocol

 Shared JBOD: 2U25, SAS protocol

 EBOF: 2U25, NVMe protocol

 Controller

 2 to 48 controllers, active-active mode

 4 to 48 controllers, active-active mode

 Drive Type

 SAS SSD and NVMe SSD

 CPUs Per Controller

 Multi-core CPUs

 Max. System Cache

 96TB

 Interface Cards Per Controller

14

7

 Protocol Type for Frontend Application Hosts  

 NVMeoF/FC-SCSI/iSCSI/NFS/CIFS/HTTP/FTP

 Channel Port Type for Frontend Application   Hosts

 16/32/64 Gbps FC ports and 1/10/25/100 Gbps  Ethernet ports

 RAID Level

 RAID 0/1/10/5/6 and InRAID 5/6

 Hot-Swap Modules

 Controllers, drives, PSUs, fans, BBUs, and I/O cards

 Improved Resource Efficiency

 InThin, InRAID, InMigration, InCompression,  InDedupe, InTune, InVirtualization, InFileService, InTier, InMulti-tenant, and infinistor

 Data Protection Software

 InSnapShot, InClone, InBackup, InVdiskMirror, InRemoteCopy, InMetro, InEncryption, and InErase

 Key Service Assurance

 InQoS and InAutoPartition

 Virtualization Features

 Heterogeneous virtualization: Supports over  95% models, achieving unified management

 RAID virtualization: Facilitates block-level   virtualization and system balance without any hot disks

 Virtualization system support: Provides   support for mainstream cloud technologies including container and OpenStack

 Chassis Dimensions (W × D × H) (D indicates the depth when installed in the rack)

 Control cabinet: 447.00 mm × 843.20 mm × 175.00 mm (17.60 in. × 33.11 in. × 6.89 in.)

 3U JBOD: 447.20 mm × 920.00 mm × 132.00 mm (17.60 in. × 36.22 in. × 5.20 in.)

 2U JBOD & shared JBOD: 446.00 mm × 619.00 mm × 87.80 mm (17.60 in. × 24.37 in. × 3.46 in.)

 2U EBOF: 447.00 mm × 841.30 mm × 87.00 mm (17.60 in. × 33.11 in. × 3.43 in.)