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

Oil and gas exploration in the energy industry is a typical opportunity for OceanStor Pacific. OceanStor Pacific provides HPC storage service with POSIX file system for high-performance computing scenarios, such as oil exploration. It supports concurrent access from millions of nodes and delivers ultra-high throughput and bandwidth. It also leverages E2E NVMe technology to achieve ultra-low latency and high IOPS for file operations.

DME Storage can support O & M of Huawei storage as well as several mainstream third-party storage systems. DME Storage is an intelligent storage management platform that provides convergence, intelligence, and openness for data center storage devices. It covers four phases of the device lifecycle (planning, provisioning, maintenance, and optimization), and improves the automation level and problem resolution rate. DME Storage supports Huawei’s full series of centralized storage, Huawei distributed storage (OceanStor Pacific), Dell EMC Unity/VNX/VMAX/PowerMax/Isilon/PowerScale/SC Series/PowerVault ME4 Series/XtremIO/X2 Series/PowerStore Series/PowerFlex Series/Connectrix Series/Switches Series/PowerSwitch Series/S-Series Switches/N-Series Switches/Z-Series Switches/C-Series Switches/M-Series Switches/E-Series Switches/B-Series Switches/Ruckus ICX Switches/Ruckus SmartZone Controllers/Ruckus R Series Access Points/Ruckus H Series Access Points/Ruckus T Series Access Points/Ruckus M Series Access Points/Ruckus C Series Access Points/Ruckus E Series Access Points/Ruckus ZoneFlex Access Points/Ruckus Cloudpath Enrollment System/Ruckus SmartCell Insight (SCI)/Ruckus IoT Suite/Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi/Ruckus Unleashed Wi-Fi/Ruckus Cloudpath Enrollment System (ES)/Ruckus SmartZone Network Controller (SZ100/SZ300/vSZ)/Ruckus Virtual SmartZone - Essentials (vSZ-E)/Ruckus Virtual SmartZone - High Scale (vSZ-H)/Ruckus SmartZone Data Plane (SZ100-D/SZ300-D/vSZ-D), NetApp FAS/AFF/ONTAP Select/E-Series/EF-Series, IBM DS8000/XIV/Storwize/SVC/FlashSystem, HPE 3PAR/MSA/Nimble/StoreOnce/StoreVirtual, Hitachi VSP G/F Series/VSP N Series/HNAS/HCP, Pure Storage FlashArray//X/FlashArray//C/FlashArray//M, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series/ThinkSystem DE Series, and Infinidat InfiniBox.

OceanStor Dorado series supports SAN and NAS services in one box, which means it can host all kinds of applications such as databases, file servers, virtual machines, containers, etc., without requiring separate devices or gateways. OceanStor Dorado supports mainstream protocols such as iSCSI, FC, NFS, and SMB, and provides ultra-high performance, low latency, and high reliability for data storage.

FusionCube is a product that is recommended for customer edge sites that need storage, computing, and network. FusionCube is a hyper-converged infrastructure product that integrates storage, computing, network, virtualization, and management into one device. FusionCube provides high performance, scalability, reliability, and simplicity for edge computing scenarios, such as smart city, smart transportation, smart retail, and smart manufacturing. Reference: [FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Product Brochure]

DME Storage provides intelligent provisioning features that enable users to complete resource provisioning in a few steps. It supports SLA-based automatic configuration and service catalog management, which can simplify the service deployment process and improve the efficiency of resource utilization. DME Storage also supports Ansible-based flexible service provisioning modes for all scenarios. Reference:  DME Storage 1.0.0 User Guide

Genome sequencing is positioned in HCSA-Sales-Storage as an HPDA/mass-data opportunity for OceanStor Pacific , not as a principal OceanStor Dorado sales scenario. The Pacific section groups genome sequencing together with oil and gas exploration, autonomous driving, scientific research, HPC centers, and object resource pools. Genome workflows generate very large datasets and involve different processing stages, requiring high bandwidth, high IOPS, scalability, and multi-protocol access. The course material also describes a healthcare genome-analysis case in which OceanStor Pacific provides one-copy data access across NFS, HDFS, CIFS, and S3 while supporting EB-level scalability. OceanStor Dorado is primarily positioned for mission-critical enterprise workloads such as databases, virtualization, and high-performance enterprise file services. Therefore, assigning genome sequencing as a main Dorado sales scenario is incorrect, making False the verified answer. Scribd

DME Storage is the software developed by Huawei that provides your data center with centralized management and O & M for storage devices. It covers four phases of the device lifecycle (planning, provisioning, maintenance, and optimization), and improves the automation level and problem resolution rate. DME Storage supports Huawei’s full series of centralized storage, Huawei distributed storage, and several mainstream third-party storage systems. Reference:  DME Storage 1.0.0 User Guide

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

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.

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.

Secondary storage acceleration is not included in Huawei’s All-Flash Acceleration solution. The All-Flash Acceleration solution consists of three parts: primary storage acceleration, backup acceleration, and High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) acceleration. Primary storage acceleration uses OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage to deliver ultra-high performance, low latency, and high reliability for mission-critical workloads. Backup acceleration uses OceanProtect backup storage to provide fast backup and recovery for enterprise data. HPDA acceleration uses FusionCube hyper-converged infrastructure to integrate storage, computing, network, virtualization, and management into one device for edge computing scenarios. Reference:  All-Flash Storage | OceanStor Dorado | Huawei Enterprise

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]

OceanStor Dorado high-end product can tolerate 7 out of 8 controllers failed, with SmartMatrix architecture. This is because the SmartMatrix architecture supports cross-engine active-active mode, which means each controller can access any LUN in the system. Therefore, even if only one controller is left, the system can still provide services. Reference:  Pre-release Announcement for Huawei Specialist Certification HCSA-Presales-Storage V4.0 (English Version)

The highlight of OceanStor Dorado HyperMetro solution is that Huawei HyperMetro can support active-active SAN & NAS solution without adding any hardware or licenses. HyperMetro is a gateway-free active-active solution that synchronizes data between two storage systems in real time and 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 data storage. HyperMetro can support both SAN and NAS protocols in one box, which means it can provide active-active protection for both block and file services without requiring separate devices or gateways.

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.

In enterprise core systems, the main sales scenarios of all flash OceanStor Dorado are database, virtualization, and consolidation. OceanStor Dorado can provide high performance, low latency, and high reliability for database applications, such as Oracle, SAP HANA, and MySQL. OceanStor Dorado can also optimize the performance and efficiency of virtualization environments, such as VMware, Hyper-V, and OpenStack. Moreover, OceanStor Dorado can consolidate multiple applications and workloads on a single platform, reducing the total cost of ownership and simplifying management.

FusionCube is Huawei ' s hyper-converged infrastructure platform, integrating compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and centralized management. HCSA-Sales-Storage positions FusionCube across virtualization, VDI, and enterprise-branch scenarios. Develop-and-test virtualization maps directly to the virtualization opportunity because HCI simplifies provisioning and consolidates infrastructure. School desktop cloud is a VDI-oriented opportunity, where centralized desktop resources and simplified O & M are valuable. Refueling sites represent distributed enterprise-branch or edge deployments, where compact integrated infrastructure reduces deployment and management complexity. These three examples therefore correspond to the broader FusionCube scenario categories presented in the course: virtualization, VDI, and enterprise branch. The question asks for sales opportunities rather than the generic scenario names themselves, so all three listed examples are valid. This is materially more specific than the general FusionCube scenario question already present in the existing bank

Huawei enterprise storage and distributed storage have been listed in 3rd party performance list, such as SPC and IO500. SPC is the Storage Performance Council, an industry body that provides standardized benchmarks for storage performance. IO500 is a ranking list that evaluates the performance of HPC storage systems. Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 has ranked No. 1 in SPC-1 and SPC-2 performance tests for three consecutive years. Huawei OceanStor Pacific has ranked No. 1 in the IO500 full-system challenge list for two consecutive years.