Catalogue · H3C
H3C UniStor Polaris X20828
High-end · all-flash · scale-out - All-NVMe performance node for H3C's self-developed Polaris distributed storage, which unifies block, file, object and HDFS in one namespace and scales from 3 to 8,192 nodes.
| Platform | |
|---|---|
| OEM | H3C |
| Family | UniStor Polaris X20000 |
| Class | High-end |
| Architecture | Scale-out cluster |
| Status | Current |
| Released | n/a |
| Operating system | n/a |
| Controllers | 8192 |
| Nodes | 3 - 8192 |
| Cache / memory | n/a |
| Availability | n/a |
| Capacity and media | |
| Media | All-flash |
| Drive types | NVMe SSD |
| Drive note | 28 x 2.5-inch NVMe SSD data drives per 2U node (2 x Intel 4th Gen Xeon), plus 2 x 480/960 GB system SSDs |
| Flash drive sizes | n/a |
| HDD sizes | n/a |
| Maximum drives | n/a |
| Controller enclosure | 2U, 28 drive bays |
| Expansion | n/a |
| Raw capacity | n/a |
| Cluster maximum | n/a |
| Effective maximum | n/a |
| Data reduction | n/a |
| Protection | 2-6 replicas, Erasure coding N+2 to N+4, Erasure coding up to 32+2 |
| Protection note | Fully symmetric distributed architecture; 2-6 replicas or erasure coding (up to 32+2, >94% disk utilisation); end-to-end data protection; rebuild 5 min/TB; automatic rebalancing; fault-domain placement policies. |
| Performance and connectivity | |
| Maximum IOPS | n/a |
| Maximum throughput | n/a |
| Latency | n/a |
| Conditions | Series figures from the X20000 datasheet: 3 to 8,192 nodes, EB-level capacity, 1-2 x86 CPUs and up to 2 TB memory per node; network types 1/10/25/100/200/400GE TCP/IP, 25-400GE RoCE and 100/200/400Gb InfiniBand. Storage protocols also include NVMe-oF (transport not specified), POSIX client, GPUDirect Storage and MPI-IO. No capacity, IOPS or throughput figures published. |
| Protocols | iSCSI, NFS, SMB / CIFS, S3 object, HDFS |
| Fibre Channel | - |
| Ethernet | 400 GbE |
| Host ports | n/a |
| Limits | |
| Volumes / LUNs | n/a |
| File systems | n/a |
| Snapshots | n/a |
| Management and support | |
| Management | Web GUI (Chinese/English) or CLI; multi-cluster management |
| Power | n/a |
| Positioned for | AI / ML, HPC, Databases, Virtualization, VDI |
| 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/Mass_Storage_Device/Products_Series/Polaris_X20000/X20828/ |
| Datasheet | https://download.h3c.com/download.do?id=16580691 |