Huawei RAID 2.

0+ Technical Training

Date: March. 5, 2015

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Content

1 Principle and Concept of RAID 2.0+

2 Highlights of RAID 2.0+

3 Comparison of RAID Virtualization Technologies

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RAID Technology Evolution

Hot Hot
spare spare

Traditional RAID LUN virtualization Block virtualization

EMC: VNX Huawei: RAID 2.0+
HDS: VSP HP 3PAR: Fast RAID
IBM: DS8000 IBM XIV: Super stripe

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 LUN Virtualization

LUN

Cell

RAID
group

Disk
Hot Hot
Spare Spare
disk disk

Lower system reliability: LUN reliability is reduced to 1/N of a single RAID group.

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Block Virtualization

LUN

Cell

RAID

Disk

Hot spare
space

Higher system reliability: Reconstruction of a single disk is faster &

the reconstruction impact is mitigated.

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Logical Objects Involved in RAID 2.0+
Disk Domain

Storage Pool
LUNs are visible to
Tier Chunk CKG Extent Grain Volume
hosts.

Tiered

Not tiered

Not tiered

Storage Pool File systems are

visible to hosts.

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Content

1 Principle and Concept of RAID 2.0+

2 Highlights of RAID 2.0+

3 Comparison of RAID Virtualization Technologies

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Automatic Load Balancing, decrease the Overall Failure Rate

Duty Cycle: indicates the percentage of disk

working time to total disk power-on time
AFR: indicates the annual failure rate

RAID 2.0+ prevents unbalanced loads to decrease

the overall failure rate of a storage system.

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A More Reliable System with 20 Times Data Reconstruction
Speed
RAID 2.0+ shortens the time from 10
Reconstruction principle of Reconstruction principle
hours to 0.5 hour.
traditional RAID of RAID 2.0+

Traditional RAID reconstruction speed is 30

MB/s, so reconstruct 1 TB data need 10 hours.
Real test by Huawei, to reconstruct 1 TB data,
RAID 2.0+ shortens the time from 10 hours to 30
minutes.

Few-to-One Rebuild Many-to-Many Rebuild

hotspots & long rebuild exposure parallel rebuilds in less time

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Simplifying Storage Planning and Management

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
R1 R1 R5 R6 R6 R1 R5 R5 R1 R1 R5 R6 R6 R1 R5 R5

RAID5 RAID1 RAID6

LUN 6 LUN 4

Spare
LUN 7 LUN 5 LUN 3

RAID1 RAID5

Spare
LUN 0
LUN 1 LUN 2

Traditional RAID Huawei RAID 2.0+

Traditional RAID Huawei RAID 2.0+

The administrator must complete the planning of the disks, the
The administrator does not waste time on the detailed
RAID groups, and the LUNs before the configuration process
planning of the storage resource.
begins.

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Content

1 Principle and Concept of RAID 2.0+

2 Highlights of RAID 2.0+

3 Comparison of RAID Virtualization Technologies

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HP 3PAR StoreServ 10000

FPVV
s
CPG
TPVV
s

Physical Disks Chunklet Logical Disks Virtual Volumes Host

Physical disk space

The chunklets form The Virtual Volume(VV) request
divided into 256 MB
Logical Disks(LD). storage space from several LD.
or 1 GB units

HP 3PAR Fast RAID Huawei RAID 2.0+

The chunklet size is 256 MB or 1 GB, and the virtual volume The size of chunk is 64 MB, and the size of extent is 512
size is 32 MB. KB to 64 MB. It fits different applications well.

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EMC VMAX Series
Meta volume

Volume

Disk group
Hot
spare
Hyper
Volume

EMC VMAX Huawei RAID 2.0+

The Hyper Volume size is from several GB to over 100 GB The size of chunk is 64 MB, more efficient

The hot spare space is offered by a hot spare disk, so it will The hot spare space is distributed on all the disks in a disk domain, so
become a bottleneck when the system start to reconstruct. there is no bottleneck in storage system. No bottleneck

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 IBM XIV
Logical volume

Data Module Data Module

Stripe
1MB

IBM XIV Huawei RAID 2.0+

Each logical volume is divided into multiple stripes of 1MB The size of chunk is 64 MB

Each Stripe have a duplicate copy on another disk

Configurable RAID policy and hot spare policy
Low capacity efficiency, less than 50%

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Summary
Product RAID Hot spare Chunk size Extent size reconstruction
RAID Tech level

Huawei V3 Block space 64M 512K-64MB Fast, no bottleneck,

RAID2.0+ rebuild less data
HP 3PAR Block space 256M or 64MB Fast, no bottleneck,
FAST RAID 1GB rebuild less data
IBM XIV Block space 1M N/A Fast, no bottleneck,
Super stripe Space utilization < rebuild less data
50%,Limited capacity,
EMC VMAX Block Disk GB ~100GB 7.5 MB Slow, bottleneck,
rebuild more data
EMC VNX2 Disk Disk N/A 256 MB Slow, bottleneck,
rebuild more data
HDS VSP Disk Disk N/A 42 MB Slow, bottleneck,
rebuild more data
IBM DS8000 Disk Disk N/A 1GB Slow, bottleneck,
rebuild more data

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