Huawei high-end storage base

2014 Quest: On March 27, it was very exciting to get up early in the morning, because today we can finally explore Huawei’s high-end storage R&D bases. Huawei’s performance in the storage market has been outstanding for the past year, with multiple achievements ranking first, and Huawei’s The ICT circle has always been low-key.

Non-Huawei staff members are required to enter the R&D area of ​​Huawei, and the inspection is very strict. A notebook must be brought in for filing. The camera is strictly prohibited. As a member of the Huawei Media Group, it is possible to take a camera with the beloved camera and enjoy it. Great beauty.

First stop: Huawei Compatibility Lab

The first stop of the visit was the Huawei Compatibility Lab. Once inside the lab, visitors wore Huawei's specialized laboratory uniforms. According to the staff, this is the world’s largest compatibility lab. Investment more than 2 billion yuan.

Here, we can see all kinds of mainstream hardware devices in the market. In fact, Xiao Bian thinks that if you turn around from here, it feels like you have put all the hardware that is familiar to you in the mind, and you are not familiar with it, in a movie. This is also an accident. Harvest it.

"Movies" includes IBM RS6000 Server, HP9000 Server, Oracle SUN SPARC Series, VMware Series Certification, and more.

According to Meng Guangbin, vice president of Huawei's storage product line, the compatibility lab is of great significance. He is fully compatible, protects customers' investments, and responds quickly to changes.

Several data can illustrate its comprehensiveness: more than 8000 pages of compatibility lists, more than 400,000 verified business scenarios, covering various mainstream applications, operating systems, virtualization, servers, switches and other manufacturers. On this basis, it has also cooperated extensively with mainstream manufacturers to achieve mutual certification and obtained more than 500 certificates. Not only that, the new products of mainstream manufacturers can also be seen here, and are only compatible with the first-time synchronization.

With the in-depth explanation of the staff, the author saw a series of compatible directions, including: minicomputer compatibility, switch compatibility, host interface card compatibility, server compatibility, virtualization compatibility, FusionSphere compatible, VMware compatible, Hyper-V compatible, backup software Compatibility, cluster software compatibility, Windows compatibility, linux compatibility, operating system compatibility, and more.

Second stop: ICBC OceanStore 18000 Test Lab

Into this laboratory, the first line of beautiful OceanStore 18000 high-end storage cabinets came into view.

Here we see the performance testing equipment of Huawei, an important customer of China Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and some of Huawei's key customers can choose to do a test lab here. This lab is very safe and reliable for some high-end users' business systems. valuable.

In the future, we hope to see more customers settle in Huawei Labs.

Finally, we were fortunate enough to see the birthplace of 1 million IOPS global high-end storage, which allowed Xiao Bian to take more photos.

The third station: storage active lab

Here, the author sees the world's most remote active and disaster-resilient program. The active-active center distance can reach 300KM. Its emergence makes the user's site selection more flexible. At the same distance, the access latency is lower and the service experience is lower. Also better.

In order to let media groups feel better that the active-active disaster recovery solution can truly realize that the A-server server will not disrupt the normal operation of the business, the Huawei staff also specifically asked one of the reporters to personally experience the pull-off of the server gate and the system business. Continue normal operation.

In addition, here we have also seen a very hot cloud disaster recovery solution. The on-site staff also showed some media application examples for the media.

During the visit, the beautiful lecturer also led us to see Huawei's two world records on the SAN and NAS.

Finally, Meng Guangbin, vice president of Huawei's storage product line, also sold a license to the media group, saying that after two or three months, Huawei Storage will release a shocking product, but this product has 23 large racks. For a long time, I did not inquire about the specific news. I will watch it after three months.