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H3C UniStor CF8850H
Midrange · hybrid (ssd + hdd) · multi-controller - Mid-to-high-end unified SAN/NAS array on Hygon processors that scales out to 32 controllers and 51,200 drives for databases, virtualization and consolidation.
| Platform | |
|---|---|
| OEM | H3C |
| Family | UniStor CF |
| Class | Midrange |
| Architecture | Multi-controller |
| Status | Current |
| Released | n/a |
| Operating system | n/a |
| Controllers | 32 |
| Nodes | n/a |
| Cache / memory | 16,000 GB |
| Availability | 99.9999% |
| Capacity and media | |
| Media | Hybrid (SSD + HDD) |
| Drive types | n/a |
| Drive note | SSD and HDD can be mixed (interfaces not stated); 4U 24-bay (2.5/3.5-inch) and 2U 25-bay (2.5-inch) disk enclosures; Hygon (HG) processors. |
| Flash drive sizes | n/a |
| HDD sizes | n/a |
| Maximum drives | 51200 |
| Controller enclosure | height n/a |
| Expansion | 4U 24-bay and 2U 25-bay disk enclosures - 25 bays, 2U |
| Raw capacity | n/a |
| Cluster maximum | n/a |
| Effective maximum | n/a |
| Data reduction | n/a |
| Protection | RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 3, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60, RAID X0, Triple parity |
| Protection note | RAID 3.0 disk virtualization tolerates 3 simultaneous drive failures with rebuild under 30 min/TB; survives failure of at least half the controllers; battery-backed cache; gateway-free symmetric active-active for SAN and NAS; NAS WORM. |
| Performance and connectivity | |
| Maximum IOPS | n/a |
| Maximum throughput | n/a |
| Latency | n/a |
| Conditions | Cache 128 GB to 16 TB (16,000 GB as published in TB); up to 32 controllers; >=65,536 LUNs per dual-controller pair. OEM claims hundreds of thousands of IOPS per dual-controller pair at sub-millisecond latency (no exact figure). Thin-provisioning granularity 4K-1M; COW and ROW snapshots. Block protocol over Ethernet named only as NVMe over RoCE (plus iNOF). |
| Protocols | Fibre Channel, NVMe over RoCE, NFS, SMB / CIFS, FTP |
| Fibre Channel | 32 Gb |
| Ethernet | 100 GbE |
| Host ports | 416 |
| Limits | |
| Volumes / LUNs | n/a |
| File systems | n/a |
| Snapshots | n/a |
| Management and support | |
| Management | Advanced performance monitoring; OpenStack Cinder and Kubernetes CSI interfaces; VAAI/VASA/VVol/SRM |
| Power | n/a |
| Positioned for | Databases, Virtualization, File shares |
| Warranty | n/a |
| Design terms | Storage pool · LUN · Host group · Asynchronous replication |
| Data services | |
✓ Deduplication
✓ Compression
✓ Thin provisioning
✓ Snapshots
✓ Clones
? Asynchronous replication
? Synchronous replication
✓ Active-active / metro
? Encryption at rest
? Immutable snapshots
? Ransomware detection
✓ Quality of service
✓ Automated tiering
? Cloud tiering
✓ VMware vVols
✓ Kubernetes CSI
✓ Native file services
? Native object (S3)
? Non-disruptive upgrades
✓ Scale-out
✓ stated by the OEM · ✕ not offered · ? not stated | |
| Source | |
| Product page | https://www.h3c.com/cn/Products_And_Solution/Storage/H3C/Products/Hybrid_Storage_Array/Products_Series/H3C_UniStor_CF8850H/ |