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Huawei
- mentions on StorageSearch.com,
Huawei
storage overview
SSD news
the fastest SSDs
latency loving
reasons for fading out DRAM
where are we
heading with memory intensive systems and software?
Editor's comments:- January 2015 - the first time I heard
about Huawei's activities in the SSD market was in
2011 when
they launched a 2U FC SAN compatible
HA SSD system
- which they also advertised here on StorageSearch.com
Huawei operate
in these segments of the enterprise SSD market:-
Huawei's background is as an infrastructure provider in the
telecoms market. Consequently their storage arrays are aimed at users who need
multi petabyte systems.
Who's who in SSD?
- by
Zsolt Kerekes,
editor - March 2012
Among other things -
Huawei Symantec
markets a 2U FC SAN SSD called the
Oceanspace
Dorado2100 - which includes a
RAID array of 24x 2.5"
SAS SLC SSDs internally which can deliver 170,000 IOPS with under 800
microsecond latency and an internal bandwidth of 5.6GB/s.
The
Oceanspace Dorado is a tier 1 storage system with no single point of failure
which has hot swappable modules and redundant datapaths and controllers.
Usable
storage capacity is upto 2.4TB (list price around $65K-$70K) .
Huawei
Symantec's rackmount SSD is an example of what I call
open (versus)
proprietary architecture - in that the internal SAS SSDs are industry
standard form factors - even though they are made by Huawei Symantec.
In the tier 1 SSD market it's interesting to see just how different the internal
architectures are. Huawei Symantec 's Oceanspace is very different to
Violin Memory's 6000
series (big
architecture, based on proprietary memory modules) and
Kaminario's K2 (open
architecture based on industry standard blades with
Fusion-io's PCIe SSDs
inside the flash versions). Yet all 3 companies are addressing the same
legacy
enterprise storage customers.
For other competing / alternative
suppliers take a look at these directories:-
high availability
enterprise SSDs, FC SAN
SSDs,
rackmount SSDs,
auto tiering SSDs,
and the SSD buyer
guide.
Huawei also markets a range of PCIe SSDs called the
Tecal
ES Series. |
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In July
2011 -
Huawei Symantec launched
its first SSD system - a 2U FC SAN SSD with hot swap features, ans 2.4TB
usable capacity implemented by a
RAID aray of its own
design 2.5" SLC SSDs. The
Oceanspace
Dorado2100 has 800 microsends access time, 170,000 IOPS, and 8x 8Gbps ports
with 2 controllers and multipath connections.
In January 2012 -
Huawei Symantec
published an
SPC
Benchmark report (66 pages pdf) for its high availability FC SAN rackmount
SSD - the
Oceanspace
Dorado2100. A 1 terabyte (approx) usable protected (mirrored) SSD system
(2.4TB raw) delivered over 100K SPC-1 IOPS at a market price of $0.90/SPC-1
IOPS. |
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"Owing to different
market goals vendors have presented a variety of different meanings for the
concept of Software-Defined Storage.
However, by the first half of
2014, the SDS concept had become clear enough to be segmented into 3 main
categories..." |
| Li Aiping,
Huawei in his
blog -
SDS
Grows in Popularity (Big Changes for Enterprise) - January 2015 | | |
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| What's data? - Now hold
on - that's too philosophical. Encode data a different way... to make it work
better - now you're talking engineering. But that's a discussion for another
time. Right here we don't care what the data means. It just comes and goes.
And it's surprising how far or how little it may have traveled. From the
cloud? Another storage device? Maybe it was computed just now from an earlier
matching of data. Sometimes the data arrives in a rush only to sadly discover
that it's not needed after all. There's a lot of data shuffling happening around
the world. Most of it isn't even for you. |
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| Huawei publishes SPC-1
results for Dorado2100 SSD |
Editor:- January 12, 2012 -
Huawei Symantec
has published an
SPC
Benchmark report (66 pages pdf) for its high availability FC SAN rackmount
SSD - the
Oceanspace
Dorado2100.
A 1 terabyte (approx) usable protected (mirrored) SSD
system (2.4TB raw) delivered over 100K SPC-1 IOPS at a market price of $0.90/SPC-1
IOPS. Click
here for summary (pdf)
Editor's comments:- these
SPC
reports are very technical and the $ per SPC-1 IOPS headline
figures include a lot of detailed factors including 3 years of 4 hour on-site
response warranty etc. |
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But the documents also
include market prices for everything which goes into these calculations. From
which we learn that a 2.4TB Dorado2100 SSD system with 16x 8Gbps FC ports
costs about $52,000. | | | |
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| "Across the whole
enterprise - a single petabyte of SSD with new software could replace 10 to
50 petabytes of raw legacy HDD storage and still enable all the apps to run
much faster..." |
| the enterprise SSD
software event horizon | | |
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