H19-110_V2.0 HCSA-Sales-Storage V2.0 Questions and Answers

In Huawei E2E anti-ransomware solution from production storage, to backup storage and to DR storage, the products are OceanStor Dorado, OceanStor Pacific, and OceanProtect. OceanStor Dorado is the production storage that provides high performance and reliability for critical applications. OceanStor Pacific is the backup storage that provides efficient data reduction and protection for large-scale data. OceanProtect is the DR storage that provides fast backup and recovery for disaster scenarios .

OceanProtect Backup Storage is compatible with Veeam, Veritas, and Commvault. These are some of the mainstream backup software in the industry that can work with OceanProtect to provide comprehensive data protection for enterprise data. OceanProtect supports multiple backup protocols, such as NDMP, VTL, and NAS, and can seamlessly integrate with these backup software to provide fast backup and recovery services.

DME IQ is an intelligent cloud O & M platform that combines big data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide data infrastructure with automatic fault reporting, and problem management and tracking. DME IQ can intelligently predict risks from multiple dimensions, such as disk failure, performance, and capacity, with high accuracy and resolution rate. DME IQ also provides real-time evaluation and scoring of system health, performance analytics and diagnosis, capacity prediction and planning, and intelligent capacity prediction. Reference:  DME IQ Intelligent Cloud O & M Platform

FusionCube supports VMware virtualization as well as other mainstream virtualization platforms such as KVM and Hyper-V. FusionCube is a hyper-converged infrastructure product that integrates storage, computing, network, virtualization, and management into one device. It provides high performance, scalability, reliability, and simplicity for virtualization scenarios.

OceanStor Pacific is a distributed storage system that is designed for massive data applications. It supports multiple protocols, such as NFS, CIFS, S3, and HDFS, and provides high performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency for unstructured data storage. OceanStor Pacific can handle data volumes ranging from hundreds of TBs to EBs, and can meet the storage requirements of various scenarios, such as big data analytics, backup and archiving, video surveillance, and media production. Reference: [OceanStor Pacific Series Technical White Paper]

OceanStor Dorado high-end storage can provide 7-nines level of solution reliability with HyperMetro solution. HyperMetro is a gateway-free active-active solution that synchronizes data between two storage systems in real time. It ensures zero service interruption and zero data loss in case of any failure in one system or site. HyperMetro also supports transparent failover and load balancing, which enhances the performance and efficiency of OceanStor Dorado. Reference: [OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Product Brochure]

The statement accurately represents Huawei ' s F2F2X architecture. F2F2X expands to Flash-to-Flash-to-Anything . In the HCSA-Sales-Storage training model, the first Flash represents flash-based primary/production storage, while the second Flash represents the transition of backup storage to flash-based technology. The “Anything” layer covers archive and secondary copies that may reside on public, private, or hybrid cloud, disk, tape, or Blu-ray media depending on retention and cost requirements. Huawei ' s modern F2F2X material follows the same architecture and explicitly depicts production storage as Flash, backup storage as Flash, and archive storage as X/Anything. OceanStor Dorado typically serves production workloads, OceanProtect provides high-performance flash backup, and OceanStor Pacific or other media can provide longer-term retention. Therefore, the second “F” does represent flash backup storage. Scribd

OceanStor Pacific has four major opportunities in the market based on its features and advantages. First, it can provide HPC storage service for oil and gas exploration scenarios that require high-performance data analysis and processing.  OceanStor Pacific supports concurrent access from millions of nodes and delivers ultra-high throughput and bandwidth 5 . Second, it can provide HPC storage service for gene sequencing scenarios that generate massive amounts of unstructured data.  OceanStor Pacific supports multiple protocols such as NFS, CIFS, S3, and HDFS, and provides high performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency for unstructured data storage 3 . Third, it can provide HPC storage service for autonomous driving scenarios that need real-time high-performance big data analytics.  OceanStor Pacific leverages E2E NVMe technology to achieve ultra-low latency and high IOPS for file operations 5 . Fourth, it can provide object storage service for object backup and archiving scenarios that need long-term information retention and compliance. OceanStor Pacific supports erasure coding and compression technologies to increase the effective capacity and save space.  It also supports WORM and encryption features to ensure data security 3 .

OceanProtect has three main highlights that make it a leading backup storage product in the industry.  First, it offers fast backup and recovery with E2E acceleration, high bandwidth, and instant access technologies, delivering up to 155 TB/h backup bandwidth and 172 TB/h recovery bandwidth 1 .  Second, it provides efficient data reduction with multi-layer deduplication, feature-based reduction, and E2E data reduction technologies, achieving a premium data reduction ratio of up to 72:1 1 . Third, it ensures high reliability with cyber resilience, system resilience, and lifecycle management features.  OceanProtect adopts the industry’s exclusive active-active dual-controller architecture that guarantees uninterrupted backup services even in the event of a controller failure 1 .

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]

Huawei has two product models for production storage in its storage portfolio: OceanStor Dorado and OceanStor Pacific. OceanStor Dorado is an all-flash storage product that provides ultra-high performance, low latency, and high reliability for traditional core business such as databases, virtualization, VDI, and SAP HANA. OceanStor Pacific is a distributed storage system that provides high performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency for emerging business such as big data analytics, backup and archiving, video surveillance, and media production.

RAID-TP is not a technology used by OceanProtect to accelerate backup and recovery performance. RAID-TP is a technology used by OceanStor Dorado to improve data reliability and availability. OceanProtect uses other technologies to speed up backup and recovery, such as front-end network optimization, CPU computing optimization, and back-end network optimization. Reference:  Become a certified specialist - Huawei

Pacific 9540 is the product model that can build a storage system with large capacity and less space occupation in OceanStor Pacific series. Pacific 9540 adopts a high-density design that can accommodate up to 106 disks in a 4U chassis, which provides up to 1.06 PB of raw capacity. Pacific 9540 also supports erasure coding and compression technologies to further increase the effective capacity and save space. Reference: [OceanStor Pacific Series Product Brochure]

In the concept of Flash-to-Flash-to-Anything (F2F2X), anything can be used as the destination for data archiving or long-term retention.  Anything can be disk, tape, cloud, or Blu-ray devices that provide different levels of capacity, performance, cost, and reliability for data storage 5 . F2F2X is a data infrastructure architecture that provides all-flash primary and backup storage and diversified archive storage for enterprise data.  It aims to efficiently unleash the potential of data and activate the potential of “4 +” (Data acceleration +; Data resilience +; Data mobility +; Data management +) data centers

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.

OceanStor Pacific is Huawei ' s scale-out storage platform for mass-data applications and provides native object-storage capabilities. In the HCSA-Sales-Storage product positioning, OceanStor Pacific succeeds the distributed mass-data role historically associated with OceanStor 9000 and supports file, object, and other access models for large-scale unstructured datasets. Object storage is particularly appropriate for enormous quantities of images, documents, media files, archives, and other unstructured information because it provides scalable capacity and object-oriented access such as S3-compatible interfaces. Huawei explicitly positions OceanStor Pacific solutions for object-based backup and archiving and other large-scale object workloads. OceanStor Dorado is primarily production all-flash storage for performance-sensitive enterprise applications, while OceanProtect is a dedicated data-protection platform. Therefore, option A is the intended HCSA-Sales-Storage answer. Huawei Enterprise

OceanStor Dorado 8000 and 18000 are the high-end all-flash storage systems in the OceanStor Dorado series. They are designed for mission-critical workloads, providing high performance, reliability, and intelligence. They can support up to 32 controllers, 32 TB cache, and 6400 enterprise-class SSDs.

Backup storage is a type of data storage that is used to create copies of data that can be restored in case of data loss, corruption, or disaster. Backup storage typically has high performance and reliability, and often uses incremental or differential methods to reduce the amount of data that needs to be backed up.  Backup storage can be located on-premises or in the cloud