Huawei Hosting Platform
In 2016, the Russian hosting provider RUVDS , which provides virtual server services ( VPS / VDS ), began cooperation with Huawei, a major supplier of communication solutions and hardware infrastructure for modern data centers. In particular, as part of a joint project, Huawei equips the data center RUVDS, located in the Moscow region, with its equipment. This guarantees a faster and more stable operation of virtual servers, allows us to offer our customers even better and more modern services. In addition, these reliable and cost-effective server platforms allow you to optimize the cost of services provided to customers.
Huawei is more widely known in our country as a supplier of network and telecommunications equipment. Solutions from Huawei are used by companies working with telecommunications and Internet technologies in more than 150 countries around the world. However, it is also a major manufacturer of servers that it has been developing for over 14 years. All Huawei Enterprise server solutions are the company's own development.
The distinguishing features of Huawei Enterprise servers are high performance, ease of management and operation, as well as high reliability required for the telecommunications industry. This powerful and inexpensive equipment aimed at real-world tasks. Huawei Enterprise servers are popular with service providers (ISP). And this is not surprising, because the servers of this manufacturer have already proven themselves well in the process of operation in the data center of the Chinese search engine Baidu. The company is one of the top 5 x86 server providers in China.
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Currently, Huawei offers a full line of servers on Intel x86 processors.
RH-series servers are standard rack-mount servers in a 1U \ 2U \ 4U \ 8U package with support from 2 to 8 Intel Xeon processors. This equipment helps customers get high performance while reducing costs in any area - from business-critical applications, virtualization and cloud services to high-performance computing. These servers provide high storage density, high performance, reliability and scalability.
Huawei RH2288 servers are among the first systems in the industry with SSD accelerators certified by the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse program. A similar hardware solution is used as a platform for Microsoft Exchange.
Today, when promoting servers in the regional markets, Huawei Enterprise does not rely only on its long-standing relationships with operators. To expand the server business, the company displays its products at industry shows, with a strong focus on expanding sales channels.
Obviously, Huawei will try to actively promote its products to the "external" market, that it is ready for favorable price terms. The quality of the products is at a fairly high level, and the equipment boasts an excellent price / quality ratio.
Taking into account discounts, Huawei Enterprise servers are on average cheaper than those of competitors, and in addition, the vendor invests impressive funds in research and development. The company pays great attention to the development of new technologies. This makes Huawei products increasingly recognizable in the server market.
The lineup of Huawei rack servers.
It is not by chance that Huawei RH1288 V3 servers were one of the company's solutions chosen for equipping the RUVDS data center. We will get acquainted with them in this short review.
Huawei RH1288 V3 is an inexpensive two-socket server in a 1U chassis for rack mounting. The developers have tried to achieve in it a balance between performance and density of the layout due to the optimal design. It is a good choice for enterprise computing-intensive applications, workloads that require both computing power and data storage capacity, virtualization systems, and cloud applications.
Servers Huawei RH1288 V3 - the right solution for applications with high demands on computing resources.
These servers support up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors (up to 14 cores each, 35 MB L3 cache and QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) 9.6 Gt / s), up to 16 DDR4 DIMM 2133 MHz allow you to get the maximum operational capacity memory up to 1 TB. Using Power Supplies (PSU) 80 Plus Platinum provides efficient power consumption. Moreover, depending on the server equipment, PSUs with 460, 750, 800 and 1200 W are supported. For reliability, PSUs are reserved (1 + 1).
Typical use of Huawei FusionServer RH1288 V3: database server (50-100 users), terminal server, application server, cluster computing node. Among the interesting features worth noting is the system of quality monitoring of energy consumption and rapid management of the system.
The Huawei RH1288 V3 server is a worthy representative among competitors, to which you can also add the Lenovo X3550.
The server provides for dynamic energy management. For temperature monitoring in real time, temperature sensors are embedded in the key components of the server. And the use of cooling modules with feedback increases the efficiency of energy consumption and cooling of the system.
Remote server management is performed using the iBMC module, which, in general, is not functionally different from competing products - iDrag or iLo. Independent iBMC control module implements the functions Serial over LAN (SOL), remote KVM and server remote on / off functions. This server also provides a wide range of management interfaces, including IPMI, CLI, HTTPS, SNMP and WSMAN, which facilitates integration with systems from other manufacturers.
An error code is displayed on the front panel for accurate localization of problems in the event of a server failure.
Huawei RH1288 V3 server - front view.
Back panel of the Huawei RH1288 V3 server with 10GbE port.
The server can be installed in a rack on rails or adjustable rails, so that if necessary it is easy to remove.
High-performance and compact rack-mount servers Huawei RH1288 V3 in the 1U package supports corporate and cloud applications, save energy, reduce TCO, simplify management and maintenance. So they look in the new tight-zone data center RUVDS .
The maximum RAM capacity of the server is 1 TB and the internal storage capacity of up to 16 TB provides a balance between performance and density. To connect to a local network, the server supports two or four GbE ports or two 10GbE ports. This can satisfy the requirements of a wide variety of applications, so PCIe slots for additional network adapters are not required. The internal structure of the server is quite standard and simple. Nothing extra.
The logical architecture of the server Huawei RH1288 V3.
Servers Huawei RH1288 V3 can be equipped with solid-state drives. Currently, the vast majority of hosting providers in the world use servers with HDD, since this is the cheapest option, disk drives have a large capacity, are easily configured to work with servers, do not require special hardware.
However, modern SSD SSDs provide a good combination of low cost and high performance for data centers and provide significant gains in speed and reduced delays compared to traditional HDD drives used in the data center. Equipped with flash drives, servers and storage systems today can solve the most demanding tasks, such as searching in large databases, online transaction processing, business analytics and large-scale virtualization in cloud computing.
In the configuration of the Huawei RH1288 V3 with SSD for connecting solid-state drives is not using PCIe, and the NVMe interface. Interestingly, the model with NVMe supports several types of drives: up to four HDD SAS or SATA and up to four NVMe SSD, instead of which can be used the same HDD SAS or SATA. There is a lot of room for different variants of tiring - multilevel storage of hot / cold data - or caching.
Thanks to NVMe, data becomes “closer” to the processor, which, of course, most favorably affects the system performance .
It looks like the server Huawei RH1288 V3 after opening. Below right - a pair of power supplies in 1 + 1 mode, internal USB 3.0 port, two SATA DOM ports, in the center - 2 CPU slots and 16 slots for DDR4 memory modules, at the top - a network card, SD and RAID mezzanine cards, on the right - blocks hot-swappable fans.
Having examined all this by components, we get the following picture:
Huawei RH1288 V3 server components.
In conclusion, we present the technical characteristics of the server RH1288 V3:
In the global market, Huawei in recent years has been ranked second in terms of business growth among server manufacturers and first among storage system providers. Its storage systems are used by over 2,000 customers in more than 100 countries, and servers are used by more than 5,000 customers from 50 countries. In one of the projects deployed more than 100 thousand Huawei servers.
In the world, Huawei equipment is used in more than 500 data centers. Of these, 160 are innovative platforms for the provision of cloud services. Huawei collaborates with more than 500 customers using cloud computing. The newest approaches to the creation of data centers — software-configurable networks (SDN) and data center (SDDC) — are rapidly developing.
Huawei equipment is not inferior to competitors in price and functionality, and in addition, the vendor invests heavily in research and development. The company pays great attention to the development of new technologies. Huawei data center solutions help hosting providers , data center owners to grow their business in the era of cloud computing through rapid deployment, flexible expansion, efficiency and reliability, as well as intelligent management.
Huawei is more widely known in our country as a supplier of network and telecommunications equipment. Solutions from Huawei are used by companies working with telecommunications and Internet technologies in more than 150 countries around the world. However, it is also a major manufacturer of servers that it has been developing for over 14 years. All Huawei Enterprise server solutions are the company's own development.
The distinguishing features of Huawei Enterprise servers are high performance, ease of management and operation, as well as high reliability required for the telecommunications industry. This powerful and inexpensive equipment aimed at real-world tasks. Huawei Enterprise servers are popular with service providers (ISP). And this is not surprising, because the servers of this manufacturer have already proven themselves well in the process of operation in the data center of the Chinese search engine Baidu. The company is one of the top 5 x86 server providers in China.
')
Currently, Huawei offers a full line of servers on Intel x86 processors.
RH-series servers are standard rack-mount servers in a 1U \ 2U \ 4U \ 8U package with support from 2 to 8 Intel Xeon processors. This equipment helps customers get high performance while reducing costs in any area - from business-critical applications, virtualization and cloud services to high-performance computing. These servers provide high storage density, high performance, reliability and scalability.
Huawei RH2288 servers are among the first systems in the industry with SSD accelerators certified by the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse program. A similar hardware solution is used as a platform for Microsoft Exchange.
Made in China
Today, when promoting servers in the regional markets, Huawei Enterprise does not rely only on its long-standing relationships with operators. To expand the server business, the company displays its products at industry shows, with a strong focus on expanding sales channels.
Obviously, Huawei will try to actively promote its products to the "external" market, that it is ready for favorable price terms. The quality of the products is at a fairly high level, and the equipment boasts an excellent price / quality ratio.
Taking into account discounts, Huawei Enterprise servers are on average cheaper than those of competitors, and in addition, the vendor invests impressive funds in research and development. The company pays great attention to the development of new technologies. This makes Huawei products increasingly recognizable in the server market.
The lineup of Huawei rack servers.
It is not by chance that Huawei RH1288 V3 servers were one of the company's solutions chosen for equipping the RUVDS data center. We will get acquainted with them in this short review.
Workhorse: RH1288 V3
Huawei RH1288 V3 is an inexpensive two-socket server in a 1U chassis for rack mounting. The developers have tried to achieve in it a balance between performance and density of the layout due to the optimal design. It is a good choice for enterprise computing-intensive applications, workloads that require both computing power and data storage capacity, virtualization systems, and cloud applications.
Servers Huawei RH1288 V3 - the right solution for applications with high demands on computing resources.
These servers support up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors (up to 14 cores each, 35 MB L3 cache and QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) 9.6 Gt / s), up to 16 DDR4 DIMM 2133 MHz allow you to get the maximum operational capacity memory up to 1 TB. Using Power Supplies (PSU) 80 Plus Platinum provides efficient power consumption. Moreover, depending on the server equipment, PSUs with 460, 750, 800 and 1200 W are supported. For reliability, PSUs are reserved (1 + 1).
Typical use of Huawei FusionServer RH1288 V3: database server (50-100 users), terminal server, application server, cluster computing node. Among the interesting features worth noting is the system of quality monitoring of energy consumption and rapid management of the system.
The Huawei RH1288 V3 server is a worthy representative among competitors, to which you can also add the Lenovo X3550.
The server provides for dynamic energy management. For temperature monitoring in real time, temperature sensors are embedded in the key components of the server. And the use of cooling modules with feedback increases the efficiency of energy consumption and cooling of the system.
Remote server management is performed using the iBMC module, which, in general, is not functionally different from competing products - iDrag or iLo. Independent iBMC control module implements the functions Serial over LAN (SOL), remote KVM and server remote on / off functions. This server also provides a wide range of management interfaces, including IPMI, CLI, HTTPS, SNMP and WSMAN, which facilitates integration with systems from other manufacturers.
An error code is displayed on the front panel for accurate localization of problems in the event of a server failure.
Huawei RH1288 V3 server - front view.
1 - hard disk, 2 - hard disk health indicator, 3 - disk activity indicator, 4 - DVD drive, 5 - LED indicators for troubleshooting, 6 - status indicator, 7 - network port indicator, 8 - NMI button, 9 - button power supply; 10 — UID button / indicator; 11.12 — USB 2.0 port; 13 — VGA port; 14 — label.
Back panel of the Huawei RH1288 V3 server with 10GbE port.
1 - PSU power socket, 2 - PSU indicator, 3 - PSU, 4 - serial port, 5 - VGA port, 6 - UID indicator, 7.8 - USB 3.0 port, 9 - control network port, 10 - LINK indicator, 11 - ACT indicator, 12 - 10GbE port, 13 - 10bGE port, 14 - data transmission status indicator, 15 - network status indicator, 16 - full-size PCIe slot, 17 - half-height PCIe slot.
The server can be installed in a rack on rails or adjustable rails, so that if necessary it is easy to remove.
High-performance and compact rack-mount servers Huawei RH1288 V3 in the 1U package supports corporate and cloud applications, save energy, reduce TCO, simplify management and maintenance. So they look in the new tight-zone data center RUVDS .
What's inside?
The maximum RAM capacity of the server is 1 TB and the internal storage capacity of up to 16 TB provides a balance between performance and density. To connect to a local network, the server supports two or four GbE ports or two 10GbE ports. This can satisfy the requirements of a wide variety of applications, so PCIe slots for additional network adapters are not required. The internal structure of the server is quite standard and simple. Nothing extra.
The logical architecture of the server Huawei RH1288 V3.
Servers Huawei RH1288 V3 can be equipped with solid-state drives. Currently, the vast majority of hosting providers in the world use servers with HDD, since this is the cheapest option, disk drives have a large capacity, are easily configured to work with servers, do not require special hardware.
However, modern SSD SSDs provide a good combination of low cost and high performance for data centers and provide significant gains in speed and reduced delays compared to traditional HDD drives used in the data center. Equipped with flash drives, servers and storage systems today can solve the most demanding tasks, such as searching in large databases, online transaction processing, business analytics and large-scale virtualization in cloud computing.
In the configuration of the Huawei RH1288 V3 with SSD for connecting solid-state drives is not using PCIe, and the NVMe interface. Interestingly, the model with NVMe supports several types of drives: up to four HDD SAS or SATA and up to four NVMe SSD, instead of which can be used the same HDD SAS or SATA. There is a lot of room for different variants of tiring - multilevel storage of hot / cold data - or caching.
Thanks to NVMe, data becomes “closer” to the processor, which, of course, most favorably affects the system performance .
It looks like the server Huawei RH1288 V3 after opening. Below right - a pair of power supplies in 1 + 1 mode, internal USB 3.0 port, two SATA DOM ports, in the center - 2 CPU slots and 16 slots for DDR4 memory modules, at the top - a network card, SD and RAID mezzanine cards, on the right - blocks hot-swappable fans.
Having examined all this by components, we get the following picture:
Huawei RH1288 V3 server components.
1 - chassis, 2 - PSU, 3 - tray for supercapacitor, 4 - supercapacitor itself, 5 - power adapter board, 6 - fan module, 7 - hard drive backplane, 8 - disk drive, 9 - DVD-drive, 10 - indicator board, 11 - VGA board, 12 - duct, 13 - radiator, 14 - CPU, 15 - DIMM, 16 - RAID controller board, 17 - motherboard, 18 - NIC network card, 19 - Trusted platform module (TPM) , 20 is a half-height PCIe card, 21 is a half-height transitional card, 22 is a full-size PCIe card, 23 is a full-size transitional card.
In conclusion, we present the technical characteristics of the server RH1288 V3:
| Form factor | 1U rack server |
| Number of processors | 1 or 2 |
| Processor model | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 |
| RAM Capacity | 16 DDR4 RDIMM or LRDIMM memory modules |
| Storage subsystem |
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| RAID support | RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6 and 60 |
| RAID protection in case of power failure: | iBBU or supercapacitor |
| Network port | 2 or 4 GbE ports, or 2 10GbE ports |
| Expansion slots | Up to three PCIe slots |
| Ventilation module | 5 hot-swappable fans, opposite-direction ventilation modules with N + 1 redundancy |
| Power Supplies (PSU) | Two redundant hot-swappable PSUs in N + 1 mode |
| Control | Integrated iBMC controller that supports: IPMI, SOL, KVM over IP, IPMI tools, 1 Gbps RJ45 port for control via Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI) |
| Supported operating systems and hypervisors | Microsoft Windows Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server CentOS Citrix xenserver VMware ESXi Microsoft Hyper-V |
| Power supply | ~ 110 V / 220 V AC or –48 V DC |
| Working temperature | 5ºC - 40ºC |
| Dimensions (WxDxH) | Height: 447 mm (447 mm) Width: 750 mm (710 mm) Depth: 43.6 mm (43.6 mm) |
In the global market, Huawei in recent years has been ranked second in terms of business growth among server manufacturers and first among storage system providers. Its storage systems are used by over 2,000 customers in more than 100 countries, and servers are used by more than 5,000 customers from 50 countries. In one of the projects deployed more than 100 thousand Huawei servers.
In the world, Huawei equipment is used in more than 500 data centers. Of these, 160 are innovative platforms for the provision of cloud services. Huawei collaborates with more than 500 customers using cloud computing. The newest approaches to the creation of data centers — software-configurable networks (SDN) and data center (SDDC) — are rapidly developing.
Huawei equipment is not inferior to competitors in price and functionality, and in addition, the vendor invests heavily in research and development. The company pays great attention to the development of new technologies. Huawei data center solutions help hosting providers , data center owners to grow their business in the era of cloud computing through rapid deployment, flexible expansion, efficiency and reliability, as well as intelligent management.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/314024/
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