Application Scenarios

Huawei Cloud General-Purpose File System provides file storage of various specifications. You can select one or more types of file systems based on your service requirements for reliable, secure, and continuous file storage.

General-Purpose File System provides fully hosted shared file storage that can be scaled up to petabytes of capacity and TB/s of bandwidth. Its high availability and durability can provide strong support for data- and bandwidth-intensive applications.

General-Purpose File System is suitable for various workloads, including high-performance computing, media processing, file sharing, content management, and web services. It also supports infrequent access storage.

• High-performance computing

  In HPC industries, such as simulation experiments, biopharmacy, gene sequencing, image processing, and weather forecast, SFS provides superb compute and storage capabilities, as well as high bandwidth and low latency.

• Media processing

  Services of TV stations and new media are more likely to be deployed on cloud platforms than before. Such services include streaming media, archiving, editing, transcoding, content distribution, and video on demand (VOD). In such scenarios, a large number of workstations are involved in the whole program production process. Different OSs may be used by different workstations, requiring file systems to share materials. In addition, HD/4K videos have become a major trend in the broadcasting and TV industry. Taking video editing as an example, to improve audiences' audiovisual experience, HD editing is being transformed to 30- to 40-layer editing. A single editing client may require a file system with a bandwidth up to hundreds of MB/s. Usually, producing a single TV program needs several editing clients to process a lot of video materials concurrently. To meet such requirement, a file storage service with stable, bandwidth-intensive, and latency-sensitive performance is required.

• File sharing

  For an organization with a large number of staff, SFS allows you to create shared file systems that are accessible to all staff, to facilitate file sharing among staff.

• Content management and web services

  SFS can be used in various content management systems to store and provide information for websites, home directories, online releases, and archiving.

• Big data and analytic applications

  General-purpose file systems deliver an aggregate bandwidth of up to 10 Gbit/s, capable of handling ultra-large data files such as satellite images. In addition, its robust reliability prevents service interruptions caused by system failures.