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Huawei Dorado 5000 V6 review and test - all flash storage for large enterprises

Huawei is becoming the technology trendsetter in the storage world for large customers. The system in question is permeated with the company's own developments, designed to reduce the total access time and make the storage system predictable and fault-tolerant. The Dorado V6 Series is an All-Flash storage solution for large enterprises such as banks, transportation companies, think tanks and data centers. For such a customer, Huawei is ready to offer storage scaling up to 16 controllers, ...
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Huawei OceanStor 2200 V3 review - entry-level block virtualization storage

This SAN storage system has many features that make it worth paying attention to. First of all, this is the RAID 2.0+ technology, thanks to which in our testing, RAID 5 survived a fall of 6 drives! In addition, this is an extended work with snapshots, because each of them can be mounted as a separate LUN, automatic LUN reduction and much more. Huawei storage systems are relatively new, and today the Chinese manufacturer successfully competes with brands such as Dell/EMC, Netapp and HPE. ...
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Server review and FAQ on Kunpeng 920, Huawei Taishan 2280 V2

We are studying in detail the first commercially available ARM64 server: how does it work, how it is managed, what software is it compatible with, and why is it worth switching to Chinese processors at all, abandoning the 30-year-old architecture? To take for testing an ARM-based server from Huawei, created on the basis of a Huawei processor with a Huawei chipset and even a network card based on Huawei NIC, I have been in line since the end of August. And only in December, due to the ...
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Huawei Oceanstor 2800 review - converged 2-controller storage for video surveillance

With this storage system, you can create a 2-node Failover Virtualization Cluster in one box. This model is designed for video surveillance, for installations on hundreds of IP cameras, for storing hundreds of terabytes of data and for analyzing video recordings. We tested it using the Macroscop software. Video surveillance is one of the main driving forces in the storage market. The decline in the cost of IP cameras has led to the fact that today they are installed in hundreds, often next ...