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

This prefecture-level central blood station has been using Infortrend storage equipment for a long time. With the development of the city and the continuous growth of population, the amount of data collected by the blood station has increased year after year. Although the blood station has always planned to upgrade the equipment, the limited budget hinders the plan to upgrade the equipment on a large scale. Infortrend hybrid storage scheme solves the urgent needs of blood stations and provides a new idea for users who struggle between cost and upgrade: Infortrend hybrid storage scheme integrates high-performance SSD and large-capacity HDD, uses a limited number of SSD for the most performance-constrained applications, and uses a large number of HDD to deal with services that are not visited frequently. This scheme was quickly adopted by the blood station, effectively solving the dilemma of not being able to strike a balance between performance and cost. Even if the budget is limited, the task of upgrading the equipment can be achieved.

Combined with the actual situation of the blood station, Infortrend gives a reasonable and accurate storage scheme: for critically ill patients, the blood station needs to transfer blood to them frequently, and the data of these patients need to be collected and transferred repeatedly over a period of time. Infortrend integrates the SSD hard disk into a cache pool, and puts this part of the data in the SSD cache for intensive reading by the users of the blood station. Other patients, as well as daily information such as ordinary blood collection, are saved to HDD for general reading and writing. This rational allocation of resources can not only effectively deal with the tight business situation, but also calmly bear a large number of "cold data".

Infortrend's hybrid storage scheme is more than just distinguishing between HDD and SSD. As an established manufacturer with R & D, sales and storage for nearly 30 years, Infortrend knows very well that users prefer low-cost SATA hard drives (HDD and SSD) in the process of close contact with users, but it often becomes an obstacle to equipment environment upgrade due to performance and interface limitations. Infortrend independently developed the adapter board, which can convert SATA interface into SAS interface, which makes it possible for SATA hard disk to be used in Infortrend dual-control storage on a large scale. Another important reason why blood stations choose Infortrend hybrid storage scheme is that both HDD and SSD can purchase a large number of SATA interface hard drives under the premise of little performance impact, so that the cost can be further reduced and the overall IT environment of blood stations can be upgraded more quickly.

The successful application of Infortrend hybrid storage solution in this medium-sized municipal blood station shows that Infortend relies on its own technical strength, through the efforts of configuring the hard disk side, to improve the user's experience of using storage, while improving the performance-to-price ratio of the product, and achieved good practical results. We hope that our partners can learn from this experience and actively recommend them when they encounter customers in the same application environment. I believe they will get satisfactory results.

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