Huawei OceanStor 6800 V3 - Working Principle; Basic Concepts

Product Series Product Model Version
OceanStor 5000 V3 series OceanStor 5300 V3, 5500
V3, 5600 V3, and 5800 V3
V300R006
OceanStor 6000 V3 series OceanStor 6800 V3 V300R006
OceanStor 18000 V3 series OceanStor 18500 V3 and
18800 V3
V300R006
Applicable Software Versions
Software
Version
OceanStor
UltraPath
When configuring HyperMetro services, use OceanStor UltraPath
V100R008C50SPC500 or later.
OceanStor
QuorumServer
When configuring HyperMetro services, use OceanStor
QuorumServer V300R006 or later.
NOTE
Log in to http://support.huawei.com/enterprise/ and you can register for an account on the website. After
you log in with the applied user name and password. Choose Support > Enterprise Storage and click the
corresponding product model to access the product document page.
l Input Version Mapping in the search box and press Enter to obtain the product document.
l Enter the software name to obtain the software.
1.3 Working Principle
This section introduces the basic concepts, I/O processing mechanism, and arbitration
mechanism of HyperMetro and describes how to use HyperMetro for service switchover and
recovery.
1.3.1 Basic Concepts
This section describes basic concepts of HyperMetro, including tenant, HyperMetro tenant
pair, local file system, remote file system, synchronization, pause, data status, and others.
Tenant
Multiple virtual storage systems can be created in one physical storage system and multiple
tenants can share the same storage hardware resources without affecting data security and
privacy of each other. Tenants enable flexible, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective shared
storage in a multi-protocol unified storage architecture.
HyperMetro Tenant Pair
A HyperMetro tenant pair indicates a HyperMetro relationship between tenants of the local
and remote storage arrays. The HyperMetro arbitration is implemented in the unit of a
OceanStor V3 Series
HyperMetro Feature Guide for File
1 Feature Description
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