By deploying an object storage gateway based on the existing SAN or NAS storage, the S3 object storage service can be quickly provided. This is the mainstream delivery mode in the future.
While it is technically possible to use a gateway to provide object interfaces over traditional storage, Huawei documentation explicitly states that this is not the mainstream delivery mode for the future of cloud-native data. Traditional SAN or NAS architectures are built on hierarchical file systems or block volumes, which face significant metadata performance bottlenecks and scalability limits when forced to handle billions of objects.
The " mainstream " and recommended approach by Huawei is Native Object Storage , such as that found in the OceanStor Pacific series. Native object storage is built on a flat architecture from the ground up, allowing for massive horizontal scalability, a global namespace, and superior metadata handling through distributed indexing. Using a gateway is considered a legacy transition method or a " bridge " solution, but it lacks the efficiency, performance, and durability required for modern big data, AI, and cloud-native applications that natively use the S3 protocol.
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