Huawei H19-308_V4.0 - HCSA-Presales-Storage V4.0

The new-generation OceanStor hybrid flash storage is designed to support modern cloud-native workloads, including those running in containerized environments. To facilitate the connection between storage resources and container orchestrators like Kubernetes, Huawei supports several key plug-ins:

CSI (Container Storage Interface) (Option D):This is the industry-standard interface that allows the storage system to provide persistent volumes (PVs) to containers. By using the Huawei CSI plug-in, users can automate the provisioning, mounting, and management of LUNs (SAN) and File Systems (NAS) directly from Kubernetes manifests.

CDR (Container Disaster Recovery) (Option A):In addition to basic connectivity, Huawei provides the CDR plug-in to manage data protection for containerized applications. CDR enables backup and disaster recovery capabilities for persistent data, ensuring that if a container cluster or a data center fails, the application data can be recovered at a secondary site using replication or backup technologies.

Plug-ins like CSS or ECS (Options B and C) are generally related to other cloud services or specific compute instances and are not the primary container storage plug-ins associated with the OceanStor hybrid flash series.

According to Huawei’s storage networking guides, Fibre Channel (FC) supports three primary physical topologies to facilitate communication between servers (initiators) and storage arrays (targets).

Point-to-point (Option C):This is the simplest topology where two nodes are directly connected. It provides dedicated bandwidth but lacks scalability.

Arbitrated loop (FC-AL) (Option D):In this setup, devices are connected in a loop shared by all nodes. While more scalable than point-to-point, only one pair of nodes can communicate at a time, leading to performance bottlenecks as more devices are added.

Fabric (FC-SW) (Option A):This is the most common enterprise topology, utilizing FC switches. It allows many-to-many communication, providing high scalability, redundancy, and independent bandwidth for each connection.

"Bus" (Option B) is a topology associated with older Ethernet or SCSI standards and is not a recognized topology in Fibre Channel networking. Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Hybrid systems primarily utilize theFabric topologyfor large-scale data center deployments to ensure maximum availability and performance through redundant switch fabrics.

Huawei’s 3DC (Three-Data-Center) solution is designed for high-level business continuity, typically involving a local HA site and a remote DR site. The documentation supports three main topological configurations to meet different reliability and performance needs:

Cascading Network (Option B):Site A (Production) replicates to Site B (Local DR), and Site B then replicates to Site C (Remote DR). This reduces the pressure on the production site (Site A) as it only manages one replication link.

Parallel Network (Option C):Site A replicates directly to both Site B and Site C simultaneously. This provides better protection for the data at Site C, but increases the load and bandwidth requirements on Site A.

DR Star Network (Option A):This is a specific variant of the multi-site protection architecture used in Huawei'sHyperMetro + Remote Replicationscenarios. It typically combines an active-active setup between Site A and B with an asynchronous link to Site C, ensuring that even if two sites fail, the third contains a survivable copy of the data.

NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) using the RoCE v2 (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) protocol is a high-speed communication technology supported by Huawei OceanStor Dorado systems. Option B is correct because RoCE v2 utilizes RDMA, which allows data to be transferred directly from the memory of one computer to another without involving the CPU of either system. This significantly reduces latency and CPU overhead compared to traditional iSCSI.

Option C is correctbecause RoCE v2 requires a "Lossless Ethernet" environment to function correctly. Traditional Ethernet (Option A) is a "best-effort" delivery system that allows for packet drops during congestion; however, RDMA protocols are highly sensitive to packet loss. To support RoCE v2, the network must implement Data Center Bridging (DCB) features like Priority Flow Control (PFC) and Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) to ensure a zero-packet-loss environment. Regarding cost (Option D), RoCE v2 often leverages existing Ethernet infrastructure, making it generally more cost-effective than deploying a dedicated Fibre Channel (FC) fabric, which requires specialized HBAs and FC switches.

This statement accurately reflects the technical characteristics of traditional incremental backup strategies found in Huawei data protection guides. An Incremental Backup only copies the data that has changed since the last backup (whether that was a full or an incremental backup).

While this saves significant time and storage space during thebackup window, it adds complexity duringrestoration. To fully restore a system to its latest state, the administrator must first restore the lastFull Backupand then sequentially apply every subsequentIncremental Backupin the correct order. If any single incremental tape or file in the chain is missing or corrupted, the restoration cannot be completed beyond that point. Because the system must process multiple data sets to reconstruct the final image, the total recovery time (RTO) is indeed longer and the process is slower compared to restoring from a single Full Backup.

The statement is False because Huawei OceanStor Pacific is a multi-protocol storage system that supports more than just the three mentioned protocols. While File (NFS/CIFS), Object (S3), and HDFS are the core protocols for mass data access, the system also supports:

DPC (Distributed Parallel Client):A specialized parallel file system interface that supports standard POSIX and MPI-IO, enabling high-performance computing (HPC) clients to connect directly to multiple storage nodes for balanced I/O.

Block Storage:Certain configurations of OceanStor Pacific can provide block storage services, making it a truly unified distributed platform.

S3 Versioning and Advanced Object APIs:It supports native S3 semantics for object versioning and other advanced cloud-native features.

Because it supports high-performance parallel interfaces (POSIX/MPI-IO) via DPC in addition to the standard protocols, it is technically incorrect to say it supportsonlythree types.

Huawei’s HyperLock feature provides WORM (Write Once, Read Many) functionality for NAS file systems. When a file is placed in the WORM state, the storage system strictly enforces a policy where the file's data can be accessed and read by authorized users, but any attempt to modify, overwrite, or delete the file is blocked by the storage controller.

In the Huawei OceanStor system, a file enters the WORM state after it is "locked." Once locked, the file remains in a read-only state for a defined retention period. During this time, not even an administrator can modify the file's content or reduce its protection duration. This is critical for meeting regulatory compliance (such as SEC Rule 17a-4) and for protecting sensitive data against ransomware, as it ensures that once data is archived, it remains immutable and verifiable. Only after the retention period has expired can the file be deleted, though it can still never be modified.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado supports Non-disruptive Upgrade (NDU), which allows the storage system’s software (firmware) to be upgraded while services are running. In a traditional storage environment, an upgrade might require a system reboot or cause a failover that interrupts I/O for several seconds or minutes. However, Dorado's NDU leverages the multi-controller architecture and advanced caching mechanisms.

During an NDU, the system upgrades controllers one by one or in batches. While one controller is being upgraded and rebooted, its workloads are transparently taken over by other active controllers in the same cluster. Because the host-side multipathing software handles the path failover and the storage system maintains cache mirroring, the application servers experience zero downtime and negligible performance impact. This feature is essential for mission-critical environments that require 24/7 availability and cannot afford scheduled maintenance windows for routine software updates.

Huawei OceanProtect incorporates specialized algorithms to achieve industry-leading backup and recovery speeds. Source deduplication (Option A) is a primary performance driver because it filters out redundant data at the source, ensuring that only new data blocks are transmitted, which directly reduces the time required to complete a backup job.

Adaptive data locality rearrangement (Option D)is a unique feature that optimizes how data is written to and read from the physical disks within the OceanProtect array. During the backup process, the system calculates data dispersion in real-time and arranges data blocks on the disks to ensure they are stored sequentially. This is critical because it allows for high-speed sequential reads duringdata recovery, significantly improving the performance of HDDs which typically struggle with random I/O. While media deduplication (Option B) and secure snapshots (Option C) are essential for storage efficiency and security, they are not the primary features credited with the raw performance "leap" in backup and recovery speed.