Huawei OceanStor 2220 Hybrid Flash Storage – Product Documentation

Product Overview

The Huawei OceanStor 2220 is a next-generation entry-level hybrid flash storage system purpose-built for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro-enterprises. It delivers a simple, reliable, and cost-effective data infrastructure that enables businesses to maximize the value of their data and accelerate digital transformation .

The system integrates high-performance hardware with intelligent management software, offering a converged SAN and NAS architecture that supports both block and file storage protocols. It is optimized for diverse workloads, including online transaction processing (OLTP/OLAP) databases, server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and resource consolidation . The OceanStor 2220 is widely applicable across government, finance, healthcare, education, energy, and manufacturing sectors.

Key architectural highlights include:

• Active-Active Multi-Controller Architecture: Derived from Huawei’s high-end storage systems, this design allows a single LUN to be load-balanced across multiple controllers, ensuring full controller performance utilization in any scenario .

• Flash-Optimized Design: Native end-to-end data acceleration delivers stable I/O response times under 1ms, even during burst traffic conditions .

• SmartAcceleration Technology: An embedded hot-data intelligent acceleration algorithm leverages neural network multi-dimensional learning to identify hot and cold data, dynamically adjusting data placement for optimal performance .

• Gateway-Free SAN Active-Active: HyperMetro provides active-active data mirroring and cross-site failover without requiring additional gateway hardware, reducing deployment complexity and failure points .

• Non-Disruptive Upgrade (NDU): Modular software architecture enables approximately 95% of upgrades to complete within 1 second without controller restarts, ensuring business continuity .

• AI-Powered Predictive Analytics: Built-in AI predicts capacity expansion needs up to one year in advance based on workload patterns and performance trends, enabling proactive planning .

The system supports ROW (Redirect-on-Write) snapshots and clones that deliver performance-lossless data protection, ensuring service levels remain high even when protection features are actively running .

Product Specifications