By deploying an object storage gateway based on the existing SAN or NAS storage, the...

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 isNative Object Storage, such as that found in theOceanStor Pacificseries. 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.