Efficient and streamlined, H3C CAS creates a high-performance virtualization platform

Previously, Gartner released the “2023 Global Server Virtualization Market Guide” report, which, after thorough research and evaluation, selected 20 representative vendors of global server virtualization for enterprise users to refer to for product selection. With leading product performance and mature solution capabilities, H3C CAS has been successfully selected, marking that New H3C Group has gained competitive strength and advantages in the field of virtualization products and technology in the domestic and even global markets.

（Market Guide for Server Virtualization）

H3C CAS, as one of the mainstream virtualization products, continues to innovate in technology and has independently developed VCache virtualization I/O acceleration technology. In response to the massive data reading demand brought about by the current digital transformation explosion, H3C CAS reconstructs and streamlines shared file system metadata, achieves disk simplification, and greatly improves read and write performance, achieving performance comparable to thick provisioning zeroing through streamlined provisioning.  

The cluster shared file system architecture reconstructed from H3C CAS V7.0 can achieve a 75% reduction in metadata data volume and storage space usage. Optimize the metadata indexing path and algorithm, reducing data indexing latency by 50%. Compared to setting zero for thick disk configurations, its advantages mainly lie in two points:

• Simplified provisioning supports disk capacity over partitioning. The lean mode adopts a dynamic allocation of disk space, only allocating the storage space required for actual data when needed, and allocating as much as needed to save valuable storage space. However, the feature of setting zero for thick provisioning does not support this feature.
• Significantly save delivery time. Taking 1T capacity as an example, the lean provisioning mode can create virtual machines in seconds, while the thick provisioning zeroing mode can create virtual machines in minutes, effectively improving the efficiency of virtual machine creation and providing guarantees for rapid business development.

With the widespread application of new technologies such as big models and intelligent computing in various industries, server virtualization is also facing fierce market changes and challenges. H3C CAS is committed to providing stable and efficient virtualization technology and easy and convenient user experience for industry customers, offering unified management, seamless migration, and one click disaster recovery for existing products, ensuring “zero” downtime for business migration. At the same time, based on its 14 years of exploration and practice in the field of virtualization, H3C CAS closely follows user needs and technological development trends, continuously expands its business areas, and provides customers with a consistent application experience, achieving “zero” pressure in customer operation and maintenance.

For the multi concurrent application scenarios in industries such as finance and telecommunications, H3C CAS has been technologically optimized and its performance level has surpassed industry benchmark products in terms of 8K-128K sequential write latency and multi concurrent IOPS. At the same time, H3C CAS has extensive localization adaptation capabilities, which can fully meet the compliance needs of industry users.