Megafon ordered the Kupol storage complex to store traffic under the Spring Law



    One of the leading manufacturers of equipment for SORM, National Technologies, has posted documentation on the Kupol data storage system, which was developed with her participation , on the government procurement portal .

    As follows from the documentation, by May 30, 2018, the company is obliged to deliver equipment to eight Megafon sites and three Scartel sites (Megafon’s “daughter”, operates under the Yota brand). Megafon sites are located in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Saransk, Pskov and Smolensk, Yota sites in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Samara.

    Using this system, Megafon can store about 100 petabytes of data (62.6 PB in the Moscow data center). Complexes for Yota are designed for 7.6 PB. Experts explainthat the total traffic of Megafon is several tens of times greater than the supply, so this is a test purchase of only 1 billion rubles.

    The SHD Dome complex was created on March 30, 2018. Its tasks are to create a reliable, fault-tolerant, high-performance storage system, connect to SORM equipment to implement an integrated solution and ensure safe, uninterrupted storage and data storage.

    According to the documentation, “Kupol” SHD is a modular data storage system of domestic production, consisting of the following subsystems:

    • subsystem of SHD controllers and PCI Express factories;
    • subsystem of disk modules;
    • complex management subsystem;
    • storage network subsystem;
    • subsystems of installation infrastructure and auxiliary equipment;
    • power distribution subsystem.

    For example, we give the characteristics of the controller subsystem.

    The central element of the systems is the PCI Express factory, which connects storage system controllers and disk modules. All components are duplicated, and the factory controller does not have a single point of failure. There is factory virtualization functionality. The complex architecture allows creating configurations based on hybrid storage systems, including all modern drives. Reliable data storage is guaranteed by flexible data integrity protection policies with minimal redundancy based on Reed-Solomon codes. The ratio of the number of controllers to the total volume of disks in disk modules is determined by the external load and can be changed if necessary.

    Storage controller specifications are listed below:

    • Processors: 4 POWER8 Turismo SCM
    • Computing cores: 40
    • Memory: 256GB DDR4
    • Memory bus bandwidth: up to 46 GB / s
    • PCI Express bus: 2 x16, 3 x8 slots
    • Internal disk subsystem: 2 × 480 GB NVMe 2 disks
    • Controls: Web GUI, CLI, RESTFul API
    • Monitoring tools: SNMP, Call Home, Email Alerts
    • Maximum power consumption: 2 kW
    • Dimensions (W × H × D): 448 × 87 × 815 mm
    • Weight: up to 40 kg
    • Form factor: 2 (two) RU

    The PCI Express Factory is a 3 RU form factor device for installation in standard 19-inch racks. It has a modular architecture. The chassis contains up to 96 NVMe drives up to 8 TB and up to 22 expansion cards, while the aggregated throughput of the factory leaves up to 128 GB / s, and all components are duplicated and can be hot swappable.

    The typical configuration of storage controllers and PCI Express factories includes a backplane of memory modules, an eight-core POWER8 3.325 GHz processor, a 32 GB DDR4 RDIMM 2400 MHz 2Rx4 memory module, an NVMe 480 GB SSD, PCIe HHHL.

    The disk module subsystem provides for the installation of 96 3.5 ”SAS / NLSAS / SATA drives with a total maximum capacity of 1152 TB (96 SAS 3.5” × 12 TB).

    The storage network subsystem is an optical switch (hereinafter OK1-11 and OK1-12) with a capacity of 24 or 64 ports, respectively. Using the storage network subsystem allows you to create storage systems in various versions - from small ultrafast systems built on high-pressure pumps (the so-called ALL FLASH) to hybrid storage systems for large and extra large volumes (tens and hundreds of petabytes) built on traditional hard drives, the documentation says to the "Dome".


    The front panel of the storage controller and the PCI Express factory is marked as follows: “Made for the Kupol storage complex. Marking should be done on a metal medium 60x15 millimeters in size (from the documentation on the government procurement website)

    For example, for its largest site No. 1 (Moscow, Volgogradsky Prospekt 42, building 5 (Bulgaria), floor 1, module 1) Megafon purchases storage capacity of 64,152 TB worth 537.3 million rubles. Brief structure of the complex:

    • Storage controller - 12 pcs.
    • PCI Express Factory Controller - 6 pcs.
    • Disk expansion module - 75 pcs.
    • Optical switch OK1-12 for 64 ports 32 Gb / s complete - 4 pcs.
    • Mounting cabinet - 17 pcs.
    • Storage Software
    • Extended service support

    Until May 30, the equipment “Dome” needs to be delivered to the Megafon sites, and installation work will be completed before June 30. All equipment and work on its implementation will cost 923.5 million rubles.

    Best Comment ( Alter2 ): It’s rather ironic that National Technologies produces systems for wiretapping.

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