Non-realtime Networked Storage
Non-realtime Networked Storage
REMOVING BOTTLENECKS
FROM DAY-TO-DAY TASKS
2D and 3D rendering,
digital media distribution,
content streaming, backup
and archiving are common
day-to-day tasks in media
production today.
Fast, reliable storage that
Oceanspace N8000 series requires less maintenance
and that is built to last.
That’s what companies
want to put in their data
Distributed in Europe by Utopia Technology Ltd. centres to drive these
media.utopiatechnology.co.uk processes.
Drawing on many years of
combined experience and
expertise gained supplying
telecoms hardware,
networking and
infrastructure products,
security software and
storage file systems,
Huawei Symantec non-
realtime networked
storage systems are
suitable for use in all non-
realtime but mission-
critical media applications.
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attached to cloud via Gigabit or
100 Megabit Ethernet, as before

Render farms &

cloud computing

Real-time
uncompressed
workstations,
10 GbE with real-time
Facility-wide 10 Gigabit direct-attached
Ethernet network cloud storage and
10GbE access to
10 GbE the storage pool

10 GbE

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DEPENDABLE STORAGE
Huawei Symantec non-realtime
networked storage systems are tested
and qualified for use in a wide range of
situations, from rendering 3D animation
scenes to simultaneous streaming of
multiple TV channels.
Hardware is built to Constellation-class
specifications. The same technology
used in media is at the heart of 90% of
the world’s telecoms infrastructure.
With a large team of engineers in
Chengdu and at technology centres all
around the world, Huawei Symantec
is able to react quickly to changes in
equipment specifications, the launch
of new software applications for
rendering and image processing,
and the adoption of new standards
and formats, to ensure systems are
always current and up-to-date. The
technology needs to fit into whichever
workflows you need to adopt at any
given moment.
Huawei Symantec welcomes requests
to add particular applications to the
approved list, and strives to ensure
they are fully supported within the
shortest possible period of time.

FEATURES
• supports clustered NAS engines in
active/active mode
• full redundancy for 99,999% reliability
• hot-swappable components
• scales up to 16 NAS engines to integrate
multiple file servers and mass storage on
a single platform
• near-linear performance increase as
system grows, up to 15PB capacity
• high performance for UNIX or Linux
clusters
• single file system spans all storage units
to deliver GB-level throughput and
process-level I/Os
• flexible balancing of different physical
resources (CPU, cache, network
bandwidth, HDD bandwidth) as storage
nodes scale
• suitable for systems with 1,000s of nodes
and demanding NFS access
• Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST)
automates data migration through
storage tiers (FC, SAS and SATA),
according to file access frequency,
reducing overall investment
• all-round data protection; snapshots and
synchronous mirroring
• built-in Veritas NetBackup Client on NAS
engines
• supports block and file protocols for
Ethernet and FC interfaces
• unified management of NAS engines and
storage units. Integrated ISM software
• automatic deployment of newly-added
NAS engines
• email, SNMP and Syslog monitoring and
alarming
• no backup client software required on
hosts
SPECIFICATIONS
• active/active cluster architecture
• N8300 supports 2 to 6 nodes, N8500 4 to
16 nodes
• cache per node, 8GB (N8300), up to
16GB (N8500)
• GbE ports per node - 4 or 6
• FC ports per node - two 4 Gb/s
• RAID levels - 0, 1, 10, 5, 6
• FC HDDs supported - 300GB and
450GB, 15,000 rpm
• SAS HDDs supported - 300GB and
450GB, 15,000 rpm
• SATA HDDs supported - 500GB and 1TB,
7,200 rpm
• N8300 supports up to 7,680 HDDs
• N8500 supports up to 15,360 HDDs
• parts redundancy - FC channels,
controllers, power supplies, fans, UPSs,
disk enclosures
• global hot spare and disk pre-copy
• power failure protection
• supported network protocols - NFS v2 /
v3, CIFS, iSCSI, FCP
• data backup - NDMP
• access control - UNIX NIS, Active
Directory, LDAP
• network management - SNMP
• file system size - 256TB
• value-added software - DST, snapshot,
built-in Veritas NetBackup Client
• OS - Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, AIX
• dynamic expansion of capacity,
performance and file system
• fault alarming - email, SNMP, Syslog
• adjustable stripe depth -
4/8/16/32/64/128/512 KB

Huawei Symantec storage systems are distributed in Europe by

Utopia Technology Ltd. : +44 161 817 7474 and media.utopiatechnology.co.uk