Huawei OceanStor Pacific 9928, 36 Disk Slots 2U All-Flash Storage Array

When your data workloads keep growing, you often find your storage can’t keep up. Slow response times, limited capacity, and frequent upgrades become a constant headache. The OceanStor Pacific 9928 is a high-performance, scale-out storage system designed to handle massive amounts of data while delivering fast, reliable access. It is built for enterprises that need a flexible, future-proof solution for everything from AI training to large-scale backup.

OceanStor Pacific 9928 - Scalable Performance for Enterprise Storage

The OceanStor Pacific 9928 solves the problem of storage that can’t grow with your business. As data volumes increase, a single-node system quickly reaches its limits, forcing costly replacements. This appliance uses a fully symmetric scale-out architecture, so you can add more nodes and capacity without disrupting operations. The result is continuous performance, higher availability, and a storage platform that expands as your needs do, keeping downtime and over-provisioning to a minimum.

Usages

The OceanStor Pacific 9928 fits a wide range of real-world scenarios. It can serve as the backbone for AI and machine-learning training sets that require rapid read/write cycles. It works as a high-capacity archive for video production houses that need to store petabytes of media while keeping retrieval times low. It also acts as a reliable platform for enterprise backup and disaster-recovery, thanks to its strong redundancy mechanisms and support for multiple access protocols. Whether you run virtualized workloads, big-data analytics, or cloud services, the system scales to meet the demand without a complete redesign.

Key Features

• Fully symmetric scale-out architecture enables seamless expansion of nodes and capacity.
• Main storage NVMe SSD options of 3.84, 7.68, 15.36, 30.72 and 61.44 TB give you choice of performance and density.
• Maximum raw capacity per chassis ranges from 138.24 TB to 2211.84 TB, supporting massive data sets.
• Compact 2 U chassis height saves rack space while delivering high density.
• One node per chassis design simplifies management and reduces points of failure.
• Up to 36 main storage disks per node provide ample parallelism for high throughput.
• Dual Kunpeng 920 processors per node deliver powerful compute for storage services.
• 1,024 GB DDR5 memory per node ensures fast caching and metadata handling.
• Two 480 GB system SSDs per node handle OS and management tasks with speed.
• Front-end service network supports 25GE, 100GE, 200GE TCP/IP; 25GE-400GE TCP/RoCE; and 100-400 Gbit/s InfiniBand.
• Storage interconnection network mirrors front-end options for flexible deployment.
• Data redundancy via erasure coding (N + M, M = 2-4) and multi-replica (2-3 copies) protects against loss.
• Supports block (iSCSI, SCSI, OpenStack Cinder), file (NFS, SMB, DPC, FTP), object (Amazon S3) and HDFS protocols.
• Chassis dimensions 86.1 mm × 447 mm × 850 mm fit standard data-center racks.

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