Efficient monitoring of storage brings new value to the security industry

In the process of safe city's constant advancement, the video surveillance industry's outstanding demand for high-performance storage uses a commitment to assist users in responding to rapid growth in data storage, access, and data management complexity. Challenges, and higher requirements for storage efficiency, security, and reliability, continue to create value and potential growth for users by leveraging the high-performance capabilities of Intel Xeon processors, as well as increasing business efficiency and reducing the cost of ownership.

The demand for high-performance storage in the video surveillance industry is very prominent. The high efficiency of Intel Xeon processors and the ability to efficiently process unstructured data such as video have brought new changes to the video surveillance industry.

Recently, Yang Kerong, marketing manager of video surveillance products, stated that in the large-scale video surveillance storage project in Pingan City, Wuhan, higher requirements are placed on the storage capacity, scalability, and cluster management performance of the monitoring center storage system. How these requirements are addressed? Providing customers with more efficient storage becomes a top priority. In order to protect customers' high efficiency under high load in the storage system, the Chinese blue whales use Intel Xeon 64-bit E5 series high-performance storage processors in order to achieve user applications.

According to Yang Kerong, RISC-based processors such as the XScale IOP348, with the increase in single-disk capacity and storage performance requirements, the performance of RISC-based processors has been difficult to meet application requirements: for example, in the case of 16 2T disks Raid initialization time takes more than 20 hours, Raidrebuild time after the disk is also very long, resulting in data security after the disk is greatly threatened. By 2010, Intel released a new storage processor roadmap at IDF 2010, switching the RISC architecture to X86 Xeon processors, and Chinese blue whale switching to a new Xeon processor with support from Intel. As a result, the new generation of storage products has increased the number of simultaneous video monitoring and concurrent write streams supported by the previous generation by a factor of three.

However, from the specific needs of the Pingan City project in Wuhan, the project proposed over 5,500 monitoring points, 20,000 monitoring points, and 225,000 monitoring points, exceeding the level of domestic first-tier cities. A class of monitoring probes are used to cover the out-of-city crossings, cross-river bridges, tunnels, key intersections, and key parts of the main city, forming a backbone video surveillance network, which is directly controlled by government departments. Among them, there are 2200 high-definition cameras for surveillance points, and 3Mbps for high-definition video streams. There are also 3,300 surveillance camera D1 cameras with a stream size of 1.5Mbps. All types of surveillance points have a storage time of up to 30 days and total storage capacity. Above 5000TB. Such a large-scale video surveillance system in safe cities puts a very high requirement on the storage capacity, scalability, and cluster management performance of the monitoring center's storage system. Obviously, more stringent requirements are placed on the efficiency, safety, and high performance of the entire IT infrastructure in the safe city. The storage system plays a decisive role as the bottom and most critical infrastructure of the video surveillance system in the safe city of Wuhan.

Obviously, the first and second types of monitoring point video resources of the video surveillance storage project are centralized and stored at each branch and district level platform. The video resources of important monitoring points are uploaded to the municipal level platform for centralized storage. High-definition cameras are used in key locations, and SD is commonly used. camera. Such a large-scale video surveillance system in the safe city has put forward strict requirements for the pre-deployment and post-maintenance of the monitoring center storage system, as well as the security stability.

In response to the demand characteristics of Pingan City in Wuhan City, Wuhan City's Jiang'an District, Wuchang District, and Caidian District's sub-branch platforms will be deployed as the primary and secondary monitoring points. All storage devices use SkySAN IP-SAN disk arrays. Each centralized storage network has cluster management capabilities and voice alarm functions. It adopts multi-level disaster recovery technology to meet the video surveillance needs of each branch office in terms of security, performance, and stability. Support through the dedicated network, the monitoring centralized network points will upload the important monitoring points of the screen, data, etc. to the sub-office platform.

In terms of post-maintenance and service, with the management function in the cluster, only login to a web management interface, you can view all other SkySAN IP-SAN storage devices in the same network to complete daily inspection and maintenance. In addition, we have also specially configured a long-term service team to conduct regular on-site inspections so that we can solve problems quickly.

Therefore, all SkySAN IP-SAN storage devices on the municipal platform are centrally installed in the city to provide mass storage capacity. It fully satisfies the requirements of this safe city video surveillance system for mass storage capacity and scalability, and the layout of the project can fully utilize SkySAN's outstanding cluster management features, greatly reducing maintenance costs and failure response time of large-scale monitoring centers.

Based on the basic functions and performance analysis of the SkySAN series, the Chinese Sky Blue whale SkySAN storage device is based on the IP-SAN/NAS integrated storage design, integrates the latest technologies, and supports powerful cluster monitoring and centralized configuration functions. Provides higher-performance, high-availability, and high-reliability video surveillance network storage solutions for large-scale surveillance center environments.

As a dedicated storage provider for video surveillance centers, the SkySAN series of IP-SANs supports powerful cluster monitoring and centralized configuration functions. At the same time, the centralized monitoring interface provides voice alarm functions, providing more efficient and intelligent alarm methods than e-mail and acousto-optic alarms. It can find problems and locate problems more quickly, greatly reduce the maintenance cost and failure response speed of large-scale monitoring centers, and reduce the error time of the storage system.

Yang Kerong further explained that high-reliable storage solutions can truly guarantee the safe and stable operation of the safe city. The SkySAN series IP-SAN is designed with redundant components. Redundant components are hot-swappable. Comprehensively monitor the storage device's connection status, network status, hardware status, and RAID status. According to the buzzer sound, the fault level of the device can be judged. Event information and operation logs of the device can be recorded in real time to provide more comprehensive device operation. Real-time monitoring and alarm solutions.

The SkySAN series IP-SAN adopts Intel Xeon multi-core E5 series processors, which brings unprecedented satisfaction to the efficient, safe, high-performance and high-reliability data center infrastructure in Wuchang District, Jiangyan District, and Caidian District in Wuhan. The direct effect. The Intel Xeon processor E5 product family is committed to bring unparalleled, balanced performance to computing, storage, and networking while reducing operating costs, and will be able to fully address 2.5PB large-scale video surveillance storage projects in Safe City, Wuhan, Wuchang District. Faced with the challenges of storage efficiency, high security, and high reliability.

Obviously, in terms of performance, energy efficiency, I/O bandwidth, and security, it is the key requirement for the expansion of the user IT department. Its breakthrough I/O innovation technology and reliable hardware-level security features can Support IT for efficient expansion. The Intel Xeon processor E5 product family delivers superior performance, powerful built-in features, and outstanding price/performance to fully meet these requirements, providing a powerful driver for server, storage, and communications systems in next-generation data centers.

With the help of Intel Xeon multi-core E5 series processors, the addition of the advantages of Skyco Series SkySAN series storage in its own system has brought unprecedented application effects to 2.5PB large-scale video surveillance storage key projects in safe cities of Wuhan Wuchang District. The high efficiency brought by Intel Xeon processors and the efficient processing of unstructured data such as video bring new value to the video surveillance industry.

To this end, the video surveillance storage project presents five major features. First, centralized storage. SkySAN IP-SAN is used to build large-scale centralized storage. It fully meets the design requirements of this video surveillance from the perspective of performance and capacity, and can achieve unified management. Unified deployment reduces overall TCO.

The second is large-scale fleet management, which supports large-scale batch operations. Hundreds of SkySAN IP-SAN devices can be operated in batches through the fleet management module, which saves a lot of time. At the same time, the fleet management module can uniformly view the running status and troubleshooting of all devices. The deployment time of the entire video surveillance system is shortened, and at the same time, the follow-up fleet maintenance work is facilitated.

The third is the localization of team services. The local blue whale has set up a professional after-sales team that can respond quickly. From early equipment training to later equipment inspections, equipment maintenance, etc. provide strong support. At the same time, behind these after-sales teams is the support of hundreds of masters and Ph.D. storage developers of our company.

Fourthly, the scale of monitoring is easy to expand. SkySAN storage devices are based on IP-SAN and NAS storage architectures. They support online expansion of storage scales and can flexibly meet the storage requirements for monitoring scale expansion in the later period.

Fifth, low-carbon storage, combined with the latest green MAID technology, to achieve low-carbon storage through smart storage strategies. It can greatly reduce the power consumption and high-speed operation of the equipment, save power, and extend the service life of the equipment.