Professional and focused tool of data storage The document introduces several key products from Inspur Storage including the AS520N, AS510H, and AS1100H. The AS520N is a small to medium enterprise product with 2 GB host interfaces and support for up to 76 disks. The AS510H is a high performance product that supports the latest host interface technologies up to 16Gb FC and has 4 SAS expansion interfaces. The AS1100H is Inspur's high-end dual controller SAN storage system with features like 24GB of cache, various host interface options, and support for 384 disks.

1. Professional and focused tool of data storage
Introduction to Inspur Storage Products
1

2. Contents
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1 Overview of Inspur Storage Product Line
2 Introduction to Overseas Key Product—AS520N
3 Introduction to Overseas Key Product-AS510H
4 Introduction to Overseas Key Product-AS1100H
5 Introduction to advanced function of AS510H/AS1100H

3. Inspur Storage Product Line
Part I

4. 2015 Inspur Storage Product Line
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FunctionsOnline centralized storage system
Business integration
storage system
Mass storage system
AS510N
AS520E/G
AS1100H
TL1000
BCP
DP2000
AS520E-
M1
AS520N
TL2000
DP1000-M1
Performance
DPS-M1
AS1000G6
AS510H
AS500N6
AS530N
TL3000
Storage system for data
protection
AS5600
AS8000-M2
AS8000-M3
AS8000-M4
AS18000
AS13000 –M1
AS13000 –M2

5. Hardware
components
Server SCSI card SCSI wire
Storage
Application
environment
•Servers are geographically
scattered.
•Server is directly attached
to storage device.
Storage Architecture:
Direct Attached Storage (DAS)

6. Hardware
components
Server
Network
card
Network
wire
Storage
Application
environment
• Data sharing based on Ethernet
• File-level data transmission
Storage Architecture:
Network Attached Storage(NAS)

7. Hardware
components
Server FC card FC wire
StorageFC switch
Application
environment
•Block-level file transmission
•Massive expansion of storage
space
•Complicated network environment
Storage Architecture:
Storage Area Network(SAN)

8. Introduction to Overseas Key Products—AS520N
Part II

9. AS520N—Product Overview
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Application
scope
Product
features
Small and medium-sized government departments and enterprises, campus education,
Internet, video surveillance industries and IP SAN/NAS network architecture
• Product architecture: 3U16/4U24-bay, rack-mounted
• Host interface: standard configuration is 2 GB host interfaces which
can be expended to 6.
• Cache: standard configuration is 8GB, support up to 32GB *
• Disk type: 3.5'' high-capacity SATA/NL SAS
• Disk expansion: support expanding of 3 expansion cabinets
(3U16/J4U24) with the same bay as that of host, and support 4U60-bay
high-density expansion cabinet
Simple, efficient and manageable
AS520N
AS530N
* The max. system cache is limited to 16GB by the operating system.

10. AS520N—Overview of Product Parameters
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Parameters AS520N
Storage operating system The independent DOM is used as memory system, so it is not necessary to use data hard disk.
Storage processor Standard configuration: 1 special storage processor (does not support expansion)
Cache 8GB which can be expended to 32GB *( support 8GB memory of single memory stick)
Host interface Standard configuration: 2 GB which can expended to 6 GB to the most.
Number of stand-alone disks 16
Disk type 7200 RPM Enterprise-level SATA/NL SAS disk (1TB/2TB/3TB/4TB)
Max. number of disks 76
Expansibility 3 3U16-bay JBOD/1 4U60-bay expansion cabinets can be expanded
RAID level Support RAID0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Supported applications Host interface aggregation, online LUN expansion and snapshot

11. AS520N Application Scenario I—IP SAN Centralized Storage
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IP SAN centralized storage: converges network interfaces, and improves bandwidth greatly.
The user can achieve the centralized storage and management of all front-end servers by using only
one set of storage products for beginners. The storage system supports the cross-heterogeneous
host platform (Windows, Linux and Unix) and is able to meet the requirements of different business
applications (database, Email, Web etc.)
……
应用服务器集群
Exchange邮件 办公OA Web、视频
IP SAN存储
千兆交换机
IP SAN storage
Exchange E-mail Web ，video
Gigabit switch
OA Office
Application servers

12. AS520N Application Scenario II—NAS File Sharing
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NAS file sharing: NAS sharing architecture enables easy deployment
N series network storage product can perform the function of sharing FTP, NAS files and support the file sharing of
heterogeneous host platform (different types of files, such as document, picture and video);
The installation and deployment of the whole system is easy. After connecting it to the LAN network directly, the user can use
and manage the system conveniently. Besides, it is helpful to improve the availabilities of data.
……
服务器组
NAS文件共享存储
Server group
NAS file sharing storage

13. AS520N Application Scenario II—Video Surveillance Application
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Video surveillance application: mass storage space and flexible network establishment
With this scheme, the front-end video servers can be put under
centralized storage and management.
Site 1
Remote
monitoring
Video server
Video server
Video server
Storage device

14. Introduction to Overseas Key Product—AS510H
Part III

15. Generation of Optical Storage Product AS510H
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Applicatio
n scope
Product
features
Suitable for department-level data center building, small and medium-sized database, virtualization
and other applications as well as FC SAN network architecture
• Product architecture: dual-controller rack-mounted, 2U12/2U24-bay head
• Cache: 4GB (standard) or 8GB (optional), support up to 16GB
• Optional expansion cabinets: support 2U12-bay, 2U24-bay and 4U60-bay
high-density expansion cabinets
• High performance and new protocol: support the most advanced host
interface technology, achieve the upgrading from 8Gb FC to 16Gb FC、
SAS2.0 and then to SAS3.0. 4 SAS expansion interfaces at back-end disk
channel provide higher performance for the user.
High performance and new protocol: adopt advanced 12Gb SAS and 16Gb FC ports, therefore it runs ahead
of other comparable products of other manufacturers.
AS510H

16. New Generation of Optical Storage Product AS510H—Product Specification
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Name AS510H
Controller Dual-controller (Active-Active)
Host specification 2U12-bay/2U24-bay
Cache Each controller provides cache of 2GB which can be updated to 8GB.
Disk type SSD, SAS, NL-SAS
Number of disks Support 384 disks
Host interface
Standard configuration: 4 SAS(12 GB) host interfaces+4 FC (16Gb) host interfaces
4 SAS(12 GB) host interfaces are optional
8 SAS(12 GB) host interfaces are optional
12 SAS (12 GB) host interfaces are optional
4 SAS(12 GB) host interfaces+8 FC (16Gb) host interfaces are optional
4 SAS(12 GB) host interfaces+4 electric iSCSI (16Gb) host interfaces are optional
Expansion interface 4 SAS (6Gb) expansion interfaces
Expansion cabinet 2U12, 2U24, 4U60
RAID level 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10
Advanced functions
Dynamic disk pool technology
Thin provisioning
SSD cache acceleration
Remote volume mirroring
Volume replication
Snapshot
Chassis 552.5mmx482.6mmx86.4mm (L x W x H)
Operating temperature 10-40 ℃

17. New Generation of Optical Storage Product AS510H—Application Scenario
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Server Server ServerServerServer
Centralized storage application
Simple, efficient, safe and abundant storage solutions
Database server Database server
Highly reliable dual-computer application
Small-scale virtualization application
Virtualized server Virtualized server Virtualized server

18. The Principle Analysis of the Middle-End Dual Controller Product
Hardware 510H
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Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Drive Expansion
Port 1 Port 2
ID/
Diag
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Ch 2Ch 1
Port 1 Port 2
2 SAS2.0 broad port
Internet access management
Serial port12Gb SAS host channel
Factory maintenance
iSCSI Host
FC Host
4 16 8
S A
4 16 8
S A
Ch3
Ch4
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Drive Expansion
Port 1 Port 2
ID/
Diag
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Ch 2Ch 1
Port 1 Port 2
FC expansion card
 4 16Gb FC (4/8/16 Gb self-adaption)
FC expansion card
 2 16Gb FC (4/8/16Gb self-adaption)
SAS expansion card
 4 12Gb broad port SAS (6/12Gb self-adaption)
SAS expansion card
 2 12Gb broad port SAS (6/12Gb self-adaption)
iSCSI expansion card
 2 10Gb iSCSI electrical port RJ45 (1/10Gb self-adaption)
iSCSI Host
FC Host
4 16 8
S A
4 16 8
S A
4 16 8
S A
4 16 8
S A
Ch3&4
Ch5&6
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Drive Expansion
Port 1 Port 2
ID/
Diag
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Lnk
Ch 2Ch 1
Port 1 Port 2

19. Introduction to Overseas Key Product—AS1100H
Part IV

20. New Generation of Optical Storage Product AS1100H
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Application
scope
Product
features
Suitable for storage system construction for center computer room, large-sized database and
virtualization applications, FC SAN network architecture as well as governments, public
security, education, finance, telecommunications and other industries
• Product architecture: dual-controller rack-mounted, 2U12/2U24-bay head
• High cache: 24GB (standard), can be extended to 48GB
• Optional expansion cabinets: support 2U12-bay, 2U24-bay and 4U60-bay
high-density expansion cabinets
• High performance and new protocol: adopt advanced 16Gb FC port in the
industry. 4 SAS expansion interfaces at back-end disk channel provide higher
performance for the user.
• Rich host interfaces: support 16Gb FC, SAS, IB and 10Gb iSCSI, thus meeting
user's requirements of different network environment.
High performance and competitive: middle and high-end dual-controller SAN storage system improves the
hardware indexes and performance and enhances the competitive power of middle-end dual controller storage
system in the market.
AS1100H

21. New Generation of Optical Storage Product AS1100H—Product
Specification
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Name AS1100H
Controller Dual-controller (Active-Active)
Host specification 2U12-bay/2U24-bay
Cache Each controller provides cache of 12GB which can be updated to 24GB.
Disk type SSD, SAS, NL-SAS
Number of disks Support 384 disks
Host interface
Standard configuration: 8 FC (16 Gb) host interfaces
4 IB (40 Gb) host interfaces are optional
8 optical host interfaces (10 Gb) are optional
8 SAS(6 GB) host interfaces are optional
Expansion interface 4 SAS (6Gb) expansion interfaces
Expansion cabinet 2U12, 2U24, 4U60
RAID level 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10
Advanced functions
SSD disk cache
Dynamic disk pool technology
Thin provisioning
Remote volume mirroring
Volume replication
Snapshot
Chassis 552.5mmx482.6mmx86.4mm (L x W x H)
Operating temperature 10-40 ℃

22. New Generation of Optical Storage Product AS1100H—Application
Scenario
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Large scale database cluster application
Database server Database server Database server
Stable, efficient, safe and abundant storage solutions
Large-scale virtualization application
Virtualized server Virtualized server Virtualized server
Data-level remote disaster recovery

23. The Principle Analysis of the Middle-End Dual Controller Product
Hardware 1100H
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Host Card
1
LnkLnk LnkLnk LnkLnk LnkLnk
ID/
Diag
LnkLnk
Ch 2Ch 1
LnkLnkPort 2Port 1
4
2 SAS2.0 broad ports
Management port
Serial port
Optional expansion card
• 4个6Gb/s SAS broad port
• 2个 40Gb/s IB
• 4个 16Gb/s FC
• 4个 10Gb/s iSCSI
Port for factory maintenance
SAS expansion card
 4 6Gb SAS broad port
FC / iSCSI expansion card
 4 16Gb/s FC or 10Gb/s iSCSI SFP+
IB expansion card
 2 40Gb IB
6Gb SAS host channel

24. Introduction to advanced function -AS510H/AS1100H
Part V

25. The Software Functions of the Optical Fiber Storage Product
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Dynamic
disk pool
DDP
Automatic
prevision
SSD hard
drive as
cache
AS510H
AS1100H
Enhanced
remote
mirroring
Enhanced
snapshot

26. The Traditional RAID Data Protection Method
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 Disk organization and management via RAID group
 Volume space can only be distributed in the disks of RAID group
– the performance is restricted to the number of disks
 The hot spare drive only operates when the hard drive is malfunctioned
 The hot spare space is always in the standby mode
24-drive system with (2) 10-drive groups (8+2) and (4) hot spares

27. The Traditional RAID Data Protection Method—— Disk Malfunction
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 Rebuild the data to the hot spare drives
– the hot spare drives need to undertake all the write operation when rebuilding the
data
– becomes the performance bottleneck
– the data rebuilding can only be conducted in sequence, one data stripe at a time
 All data access in this RAID group will be affected
24-drive system with (2) 10-drive groups (8+2) and (4) hot spares

28. Dynamic Disk Pool DDP – Principles
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• Each stripe is 4GB, referred to as D-piece, and is from the 10 disks in the bottom of
DDP
• Complete the choosing of disks needed via the relevant algorithm
– different stripe is located in different disk
– pseudorandom can ensure the dynamic balance of the space used

29. Dynamic Disk Pool DDP – Principles
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• As for D-Piece which has space located in:
– fragments located in other disks need to be verified
– new fragments will be written into the damaged data
• Almost all the disks participate in rebuilding the data

30. Dynamic Disk Pool DDP – Principles
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• One or more disks can be added to the Pool (1~12)
• The data will again conduct dynamic balance distribution to give play to
new performance of the disk
– move of data fragment only, not the rebuilding of the data

31. Dynamic Disk Pool DDP – Failure Effect Comparison
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0
20
40
60
80
100
120
300GB… 900GB… 2TB… 3TB…
DDP
RAID 6
Ｈｏｕｒ
No
Impact
2.5DAYS
1.3DAYS
The test is based on 24 disks, middle-level business system
Time
Normal
Acceptable
Performance
The impact of disk failure on performance
DDPRAID
4+DAYS
Business
influence
Data recovery minute vs day_4TB requires 5.5days

32. Data Recovery Test – Test-DDP Test Result Analysis
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DDP data recovery compared to the traditional raid
DDP（29块使用
40TB）
raid6(29块使用
40TB)
raid6(29块使用
20TB)
DDP（58块使用
20TB）
DDP（58块使用
40TB）
恢复时间 7.24 27.19 9.34 1.18 4.03
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
coordinateaxiscaption
A comparison on data recovery between AS1000G6 DDP and raid
NB: 3T 7200 SAS disk;64k write
 29 7200 SAS disks available capacity 40TB, DDP data recovery 7.24 hours,
Raid6 data recovery 27.19 hours;
 58 disks disk pool 1 available capacity 20TB and the recovery time is 1.18 hours;
 58 disks disk pool 1 available capacity 40TB and the recovery time is 4.03 hours.

33. Performance Test-DDP Test Result Analysis
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 DDP IOPS reaches 377,703, which is much higher than raid; however, there is no clear advantage
on bandwidth compared with raid;
 29 7200 SAS disk available capacity 40TB. The DDP data recovery in this test is 3.75 times that of
raid. With more disks, DDP data recovers faster. The data recovery under the top configuration is
8 times that of the traditional raid. In the advertisement, it is said to be 10 times that of the
traditional raid, which is its limit value.
Strategy Sequential read Sequential write Random read Random write
IOPS bandwidth IOPS bandwidth IOPS bandwidth IOPS bandwidth
DDP 377703.27 2517.82 172666.97 2333.18 207799.52 2227.69 93670.11 1388.27
RAID5 173046.98 2226.35 92359.18 1628.95 159729.32 1524.03 66009.79 1300
RAID6 240545.92 2775.45 178515.51 2500.22 22856.47 2088.01 3017.92 682.18

34. The Software Functions of Inspur’s Kernel Optical Fiber Storage DDP
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• The system provides performance continuously without any influence
• The system’s performance can be controlled
within the “green area”
– the hard drive failure has the minimum impact on
the system’s performance
– clearly accelerates the system recovery time
– 10 times faster than the traditional RAID
recovery speed
– accelerate data rebuilding
• Disk pool avoids hard drive hotspot
– all volume space is distributed in all the hard drives in the disk pool
– lower the hard drive failure rate
• dynamic data distribution and redistribution continue operating in the back-
end
Time
Optimal
Acceptab
le
Performan
ce
Performance Impact of a Drive Failure
RAID
Rebuild
DDP
Dynamic Disk Pool (DDP)

35. The Software Functions of Inspur’s Kernel Optical Fiber Storage DDP
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Dynamic Disk Pool (DDP)
– DDP (dynamic disk pool) is a FREE function of the product which can achieve higher
IOPS than the traditional RAID. It can be mostly promoted in the virtualization
application platform and database application.
– There is NO LIMIT ON THE NUMBER OF HARD DRIVES in DDP group. With more
hard drives, the data read and write and data recovery of malfunctioned disks are
faster with HIGHER PERFORMANCE. It is advisable to take 24 to 60 disks as a DDP
group.
– 510H and 1100H support SSD hard drive to be DDP volume; 500H and 1000G6 do
not support SSD to be DDP.

36. Inspur’s Kernel Optical Fiber Storage DDP Configuration
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AS1100H AS510H
The basic configured disk
number of each DDP
11 11
The maximum disk number
each DDP supports
384 192
The number of disks that can
be added to DDP every time
1 to 12 disks 1 to 12 disks
The number of DDP the
storage system supports
20 20
The largest single LUN
capacity in DDP
64TB 64TB
The type of disk supported SAS, near-line SAS, SSD
SAS, near-line SAS,
SSD

37. A Comparison of Inspur’s Kernel Optical Fiber Storage DDP with raid6
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38. The Snapshot Function of Inspur’s Kernel Optical Fiber Storage
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Enhanced snapshot
Source
PiT
SnapshotPiT
SnapshotPiT
SnapshotPiT
Snapshot
– The number of enhanced snapshot is MORE than that of the traditional snapshot. Each volume
has 128 snapshot volume while the traditional one has 16 snapshots in each volume
– As for the same LUN, it supports 4 snapshot group, each snapshot group supports 32 snapshots;
the snapshots in each snapshot group can share THE SAME STORAGE VOLUME whose size is
about 40% of the original volume (configurable), which reduces the storage capacity consumption
for the convenience of snapshot management
– Support snapshot consistency relevance group to ensure the data consistency when multiple
number of LUN of the same application take snapshot simultaneously
– Configure automatic snapshot strategy, taking snapshot every 30 minutes, 24 everyday; manual
operation has no time limit

39. The Mirroring Function of Inspur’s Kernel Optical Fiber Storage
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Enhanced remote mirroring
Source
PiT
Snapshot
PiT MirrorAsync RVMSite A
Site B
– The enhanced remote mirroring is a kind of asynchronous mirroring which is realized BASED ON
THE ENHANCED SNAPSHOT. The data read/write log and data variation pointer are saved in the
storage volume. With the comparison of pointers of the two places, it can be converted into residual
quantity data to be transmitted to another place, so as to ENSURE that the DATA transmitted
between the pointers is CONSISTENT and can be USED at a certain point.
– Conducting remote mirroring based on IP LINK and BARE FIBER LINK. Flexible link choice and HIGH
CONTROLLABLE COST
– With the comparison of log record and pointer, it supports BREAKPOIN RESUME of the data
transmission to ensure data integrity
– The mirroring link requires exchanger to transmit data and the controller needs to reserve a port for
mirroring link interface

40. The Principle Analysis of the Middle-End Dual Controller Product Software
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500H 510
H
1000G
6
1100
H
AS500H AS510H AS1000G6 AS1100H
The number
of host
512 512 1024 1024
Partition 128 128 512 512
LUN 512 512 2048 2048
Single volume capacity limit: 64TB at maximum

41. The Automatic Downsizing Function of Inspur’s Kernel Optical Fiber Storage
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Automatic prevision
Physical Storage: 1TB Total
Volumes: 2TB
1
TB
300
GB
50
GB
150
GB
100
GB
200
GB
200
GB
Store maximum data with minimum costs
Advantages:
– Users can create volumes flexibly. There is no need to consider
the disk reserved space in the initial planning phase; physical
capacity can be added in the later phase to IMPROVE THE
CAPACITY PLANNING EFFICIENCY
– LOWERING the PURCHASING COST of the storage system
– Electric ENERGY and computer room SAVING, LOWERING the
emission of thermal LOSS with high efficiency and low-carbon
– The downsized volume uses 4GB as a distribution unit, the
smallest granularity is 4BG. It can be configured to be above
4GB; each downsized volume’s largest virtual capacity is 64TB
– This function can only used in DDP, not in the normal RAID.

42. The SSD as Cache Function of Inspur’s Kernel Optical Fiber Storage
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SSD hard drive as cache
Description：
 Using SSD based on the read cache of the controller
 Expandable to 5TB high-speed cache, supporting MLC technology
 After setting SSD to read cache, the read IO of the host will copy the data read
to SSD. If the next IO is hit, then data should be retrieved directly from SSD;
otherwise, it needs to retrieve data from the hard disk and copy to SSD.
 When SSD is fully written, data deletion will begin according to the data hit rate
or the storage time in SSD.

43. FOCUS ON CUSTOMER SUCCESS
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