Shulou(Shulou.com)06/03 Report--

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (hereinafter referred to as "Beihang") is the first aerospace institution of higher learning established in New China. It has always aimed at national strategic needs and international academic frontiers to create a top innovation platform and a first-class scientific research base. So far, it has 9 national key laboratories, 4 national engineering research centers and 58 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, forming a scientific and technological innovation platform with multi-level, multi-type and organic connection and interaction.

With many large key laboratories, users attach great importance to the security of the equipment and the data in the equipment, and even have the requirement of confidentiality. In each laboratory, there are more than a dozen 720p cameras with 6Mb/s stream to monitor the equipment around the clock. At present, the monitoring platform has been built a long time ago, and the monitored data needs to be stored in storage for unified management. Storage devices must meet the bandwidth required by the front end and have sufficient capacity to ensure the storage of monitoring data in the next few years. In addition, the storage is compatible with the existing monitoring platform.

In the end, the user chose Infortrend EonStor DS storage as the newly purchased disk array to connect with the existing monitoring platform of Beihang Lab through Ethernet. DS storage can seamlessly connect with the existing monitoring system, through the specially developed SANWatch software to provide a unified management and storage platform, to achieve user-friendly control and operation, to complete data preservation, monitoring and other functions. DS provides 8 on-board gigabit network host ports, which can fully meet the bandwidth required by laboratory monitoring terminals.

DS also has super scalability. It can expand up to 448 hard drives, exceeding the storage space of 5PB. This time, 92 large-capacity 6TB HDD hard drives are configured to provide 550TB storage capacity space, which will meet the storage and management of "Beihang" laboratory monitoring data for a long time in the future.

In view of the fact that Beihang laboratory attaches great importance to data security, it requires high availability and stability in monitoring, and DS has a strong advantage in this aspect. First of all, no single point of failure design: all the key components of the system (controller, power supply, fan) support redundant design; secondly, BBU/ supercapacitor + flash module configuration, even in the case of unexpected power outage, can ensure that data is not lost, coupled with the controller's automatic failover / recovery mechanism to ensure the uninterrupted business to the maximum extent.

The hardware advantage of DS also reflects the unique design concept of Infortrend, global wireless cable, modularization, hot-swappable, whether it is the early equipment installation, or the later maintenance and management, have brought great convenience to users. Therefore, for scientific research universities such as "Beihang", limited by cost, they will not invest a large number of IT maintenance personnel, and pay special attention to the performance-to-price ratio of storage equipment. So EonStor DS is their ideal choice.

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