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Five Selling Points

of Huawei Servers

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Where Are Servers Sold?

Server classification

Large data centers of public service providers

Internal data centers of customers from government,

finance, energy, and manufacturing industries

Equipment rooms of small- and medium-sized

enterprises (SMEs) and research institutes

★ As computing is required everywhere, servers are required

everywhere. Servers are necessary for IT construction.

★ Wherever there are storage and network, there are servers.

No matter how small its volume is, data must be processed by servers

before it is transmitted and stored.

High-

density

servers

Rack

servers

Blade

servers

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What We Sell of Servers?——Performance,

Reliability, Huawei Proprietary and Controllability

Performance

Virtualization consolidation

Data processing

Mission-critical applications

Stability without downtime

• Huawei proprietary design

• Huawei proprietary core

chips

Reliability

Huawei

proprietary and

controllability

Focus on strategic NA, closely cooperate with ISV and DP to break through

core-value industries

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Five Selling Points of Huawei Servers

Low failure rate: More than 500,000 servers are delivered and used in a large scale with

the failure rate 15% lower than the average industrial level.

Outstanding performance: Huawei servers have shattered 83 world records for

computing performance and energy efficiency.

High security and controllability: Huawei is the only vendor that supports one-stop

R&D, production, and delivery and uses Huawei proprietary core chips.

High availability: With rich RAS features, Huawei servers can stably run in the

temperature of 40°C for a long term.

Continuous innovation: Huawei has strong R&D capability and uses Huawei proprietary

core chips for accelerating applications and improving service performance.

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1. Failure Rate 15% Lower than the Average Industrial Level

• Stable connection to services and reliable system

running are the most concerned issues for CIOs.

• Failure rates of servers and components in the

servers must be controlled in an acceptable range.

Passive backplane

The components of the

backplane include only

a PCB and connectors

rather than any active

component such as a

resistor or IC. This

prevents single point of

failures (SPOFs).

Higher standards for the

reliability test

Reliability test with standards higher

than industrial standards

High-availability

components

Carrier-class components

Life time over 5 years

Long-term stable running

Strict quality control

Strict quality control through

component purchase, board R&D,

and system test

1. The low failure rate reduces service interruption

and data loss caused by system breakdowns and

component failures.

2. The low failure rate lowers the system O&M cost.

Tested at the Tencent data center, Huawei servers

have the lowest defective parts per million (DPPM)

value.

Customer Case

Customer Benefits

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2. Outstanding performance: 83 World Records for Computing Performance and Energy Efficiency

• Based on the same x86 platform, CPUs, and memory, different

servers provide different performance.

• Running the same services, different servers consume

different electric power.

Root cause of differences: hardware and software

optimization

Leading computing

performance

Huawei V2 servers

shattered 74 SPEC

records on integer and

floating-point computing

performance.

Energy saving

All-round energy-saving technologies

to ensure optimal energy efficiency

Database No. 1 TPC-E

performance

First Chinese TPC member

Hardware and software

optimization

High power conversion efficiency (AC-

DC and DC-DC)

BIOS computing performance

optimization and dynamic adjustment

1. With the same platform and configuration,

Huawei servers provides stronger computing

capability than competitors' products.

2. Huawei servers use all-round energy-saving

technologies to reduce electricity costs.

1. Huawei servers won highest scores in technical

tests in centralized procurement of ICBC, China

Mobile, and State Grid.

Customer Case

Customer Benefits

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3. High Security and Controllability: Unique Vendor That Supports One-Stop R&D, Production, and Delivery

Huawei proprietary chips

(management chips and NC chips) Hardware schematic diagram

PCB interconnection

(backplane switching)

Heat dissipation simulation

BIOS/BMC and CPLD/FPGA iMana (management software)

Basically, competitors in China do not have comprehensive R&D systems. Most of them provide servers

manufactured by ODM vendors in Taiwan and United States.

Competitors such as HP, IBM, Dell, and Cisco design architecture and management software and have ODM

vendors such as Foxconn, Inventec, Quanta for the design, test, and production.

1. Huawei uses self-developed products to

provide customized, optimized servers.

2. Huawei servers are not OEM products,

which ensures end-to-end quality and

delivery.

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Sugon servers are OEM products and tested

with defects in the China Mobile's centralized

procurement test. The rectification requires a

long time because Sugon products rely on

Taiwan ODM vendors.

Customer Case

Customer Benefits

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Competitors' servers operate in the range of 10°C to 35°C. Huawei mainstream

servers operate in the range of 5°C to 40°C.

4. High Availability: High Adaptability and Stable Running in 40°C

Competitors' server operating

temperature range 10℃ to 35℃ Huawei RH2285 operating

temperature range 5℃ to 40℃

The 40°C specifications are higher

than that of all competitors except

IBM. Huawei servers use the same fans

as those of IBM servers. However, IBM

servers support the 40°C specifications

under specific conditions.

In the temperature range of 5°C to 35°C, the Huawei RH2288H

V2 supports CPUs (80 W to 130 W) to work at the normal

frequency (without frequency decrease) when one fan fails;

however, when one fan fails or in the temperature higher than

30°C, CPU performance of HP servers is affected.

The Dell R720 and R720xd support the one-fan failure under

specific conditions.

Note: Huawei servers such as the RH2285 V2, RH2288 V2, RH2485 V2, E9000, XH310 V2, and XH311 V2 support

the high temperature of 40°C. Other Huawei servers support this temperature under specific conditions.

1. Huawei servers can operate in a

maximum temperature of 40°C, which

reduces cooling costs of the equipment

room.

2. Huawei servers provide high availability

to ensure service continuity for

customers.

1. When air conditioners in the Ministry of

Railways (MOR) equipment room fail,

competitors' servers break down as the

temperature in the equipment room rises.

However, Huawei servers are running

normally.

Customer Case

Customer Benefits

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4. High Availability and Rich RAS Features

Dynamic adding or removing

nodes • When a 4-socket secondary node

is faulty, you can replace the faulty

parts or the whole faulty node to

rectify the fault.

• Node resources can be added or

removed dynamically based on

service load requirements to

optimize configuration.

Two-dimension hot swap • You can replace PCIe cards

without opening the chassis and

powering off the server.

• The replacement time is

shortened from 10 minutes to 1

minute, increasing efficiency.

Fault tolerance for integrated

hardware and software • System-grade fault tolerance for the

integrated design of management

software, BIOS, hardware, and chips

• 35 RAS features

• Fault-tolerant architecture with fault

detecting, diagnosis, and isolation

DIMM fault precaution and

hot swap • Fault precaution and precise fault

location facilitate replacement of

faulty DIMMs (DIMM hot swap).

• The server system support Mirror or

Spare mode.

• Online memory expansion meets

requirements for service load

increase.

Hot removal for nodes

Hot adding

for nodes

Fault

management

architecture

ereport

error fault fault

Hardware fault

injection

Software

simulation

injection

Virtual error

event injection

Fault

alarm fault

Core isolation

Page isolation

DIMM hot swap

I/O device hot swap

Application system

Linux Kernel

Hardware

Fault statistics and analysis

Faulty device location

Cause analysis

Expert system Fault response

Error log

Fault log User interface

Kernel matches with the FMD interface,

unified error transmission channel

Hardware fault information capture and

fault handling

CPUs DIMMs PCIe

devices xxx

Fault i

nje

ction

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5. Continuous Innovation: Huawei Proprietary Core Chips to Accelerate Applications and Improve Service Performance

• Service bottlenecks focus on I/O. Computing

performance is sufficient. However, I/O

bandwidth is insufficient.

• Limited hard disk read and write bandwidth and

disunified ports

CPU interconnection chips

The Node Controller 1.0 is approved

and accepted in China. The new-

generation NC 2.0 (interconnection x86

CPU) is being developed.

Server management

chip

Single chip, low power

consumption, and

wireless management

features

Huawei proprietary I/O chips

Converged 10GE/RoCE/FCoE/FC

RAID controller

I/O acceleration card

PCIe SSD card with industry-leading

performance

iNIC with excellent virtualization

performance

1. The 8-socket or higher system provides higher

performance and reliability.

2. The I/O acceleration solution provides higher

bandwidth to fully realize the CPU potential.

The Deltares uses the E9000. The customer said that the

HP C7000 is too plastic compared with the Huawei E9000.

The 32-socket fault-tolerant computer that uses the NC 1.0

chips is approved and accepted by the Ministry of Science.

The Huawei E9000 with the iNIC provides the highest

SPECvirt virtual performance.

Huawei SSD cards got the first place in the StorageReview

test.

Customer Case

Customer Benefits

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Supportive Materials for Five Selling Points

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• Stable service connection and reliable system running are the

most concerned issues for CIOs.

• Failure rates of servers and components in the servers must

be controlled in an acceptable range.

Passive backplane

The components of the

backplane include only a

PCB and connectors rather

than any active component

such as a resistor or IC. This

prevents single point of

failures (SPOFs).

Higher standards for the

reliability test

Reliability test with standards

higher than industrial standards

High-availability

components

Carrier-grade components

Life time over 5 years

Long-term stable running

Strict quality control

Strict quality control through

component purchase, board R&D,

and system test

1. The low failure rate reduces service

interruption and data loss caused by system

breakdowns and component failures.

2. The low failure rate lowers the system O&M

cost.

Tested at the Tencent data center, Huawei servers

have the lowest DPPM value.

Customer Case

Customer Benefits

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency

Security and reliability

High availability Continuous innovation

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Supportive Point 1: Passive Backplane with 0 Failure Rate

Huawei's passive backplanes Competitors' active backplanes

Huawei's passive backplanes are operational without power

supply. The passive backplanes contain no active components

such as resistors, capacitors, and ICs, except PCBs and

connectors. They are free from SPOFs.

Competitors' active backplanes are operational only with

power supply. The active backplanes contain active

components such as resistors, capacitors, and ICs, besides

PCBs and connectors. This design has the risks of SPOFs.

The passive backplanes effectively prevent operation exceptions in the chassis caused by faulty active components

and ensure high reliability thanks to its appropriate zero failure rate.

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



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Supportive Point 2: Reliable Components to Support Stable Running in Harsh Environments

Carrier-class components and reliability design

Huawei SMD macromolecular capacitors Competitor electrolyte plug-in capacitors

Carrier-class derating design to ensure stable running

in the high temperature of 40°C

Components with a life time of over 5 years to

support long-term, reliable running

Macromolecular components instead of electrolyte to

ensure safety

Anti-interference capability and surge protection

better than competitors' products

EMC Competitiveness Comparison

Huawei Competitor

Conducted susceptibility 10 V 3 V

Signal EFT 1 KV 0.5 KV

Power supply EFT 2 KV 1 KV

Radiated susceptibility 10 V/M 3 V/M

ESD susceptibility Contact discharge 6 KV/Air

discharge 8 KV

Contact discharge 4 KV/Air

discharge 8 KV

Anti-surge capability ITU 2.5/2.5 KV IEC 2 KV/2 KV

Radiation emission (RE) CE/FCC CLASS A CE/FCC CLASS A

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



High anti-interference capability

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Power-on

Power-off

Time

48 h 120 h 48 h

Supportive Point 3: Strict Standards for the Reliability Tests to Minimize the Failure Rate

Reliability tests are complete between

TR4A and TR5 (one month required).

Totally three cycles of reliability tests

are complete.

A 48-hour power cycle test

and a 120-hour pressure

test are complete within

one cycle.

Stage 1 reliability tests Stage 2 reliability tests

TR4 TR4A TR5

Huawei servers are tested by the reliability tests with standards higher than industrial standards. The reliability test consists of

two stages. The first stage is TR4 to TR4A. The second stage is TR4A to TR5. In the first stage, test items are performed separately

on multiple servers or centrally on one server in the reliability test environment. In the second stage, test items are centrally performed

on one server in the reliability test environment.

Stage 1

reliability tests

Power cycle test (power on and off

once) in the normal temperature

Power cycle test (BMC controls

power-on/off) in the normal

temperature

Power-off and power-

on during POST in the

normal temperature

POST reboot test

in the normal

temperature

OS reboot test in the

normal temperature

Pressure test in the

normal temperature

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



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Supportive Point 4: Strict Quality Control Throughout the Purchase, R&D, and Tests

Supplier certification, component selection, and quality control

EMC laboratory, vibration test laboratory, high temperature test

laboratory, and safety regulation laboratory

Huawei's fault-tolerant architecture provides comparable reliability

as RISC midrange computers.

Huawei has the design capability for architecture with 99.999%

reliability for high-end products.

Board design, server design, and the test process meet Integrated Product

Development (IPD) standards.

35 Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) features are supported.

150 patents on reliability designs are obtained.

200,000 carrier-class server blades have been delivered to telecom

users.

300,000 rack servers, blade servers, and high-density servers have

been delivered to enterprise users.

Precise design

Strict tests

500,000

servers

in large-scale

use

Laboratories with sufficient equipment

Outstanding reliability in both components

and systems

High reliability

Architecture design capability

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



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Supportive Point 5: Failure Rate Comparison Between Huawei and Competitor products at T Customer Site

2012 January February March April May June July August September October November December

Monthly failure rate of Huawei blade servers (without hard disks) 0.06% 0.07% 0.09% 0.04% 0.10% 0.10% 0.10% 0.08% 0.05% 0.07% 0.05% 0.06%

Monthly failure rate of servers from D (without hard disks) 0.11% 0.15% 0.05% 0.10% 0.13% 0.08% 0.13% 0.10% 0.11% 0.16% 0.07% 0.09%

Monthly failure rate of servers from L (without hard disks) 0.23% 0.31% 0.20% 0.34% 0.36% 0.25% 0.27% 0.42% 0.34% 0.29% 0.25% 0.33%

Monthly failure rate of Huawei blade servers

(without hard disks)

Monthly failure rate of servers from D


Monthly failure rate of servers from L


January February March April May June July August September October November December

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



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2. Exllent performance: 83 World Records for Computing Performance and Energy Efficiency

• Based on the same x86 platform, CPUs, and memory,

different servers provide different performance.

• Running the same services, different servers consume

different electric power.

Root cause of differences: optimization of software and

hardware

Leading computing

performance

Huawei V2 servers shattered

74 SPEC records on integer

and floating-point computing

performance.

Energy saving

All-round energy-saving technologies

to ensure optimal energy efficiency

Database No. 1 TPC-E

performance

First Chinese TPC member

Hardware and software

optimization

High power conversion efficiency (AC-

DC and DC-DC)

BIOS computing performance

optimization and dynamic adjustment

1. With the same platform and configuration,

Huawei servers provides stronger computing

capability than competitors' products.

2. Huawei servers use all-round energy-saving

technologies to reduce electricity costs.

1. Huawei servers won highest scores in technical

tests in centralized procurement of ICBC, China

Mobile, and State Grid.

Customer Case

Customer Benefits

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



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Supportive Point 1: 83 World Records for Computing Performance and Energy Efficiency

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



• High computing performance: 74 world records of integer and floating-point computing performance in the SPECint/fp test

• Energy-saving: 9 world records in the SPECpower test

Huawei servers have

shattered 83

world records in the SPEC

benchmark test by now.

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Supportive Point 2: Unique Chinese Vendor That Offers TPC Test Capabilities

Transaction Processing

Performance Council (TPC)

2012. 01 2012. 12 2013. 02 2013~

RH5885 (1 TB memory)

No. 1 in the TPC-E test

• Huawei joined TPC-E/H/DS/DI.

• Huawei took part in defining the TPC-DI benchmark.

• Guiding new

standards

• Released results

for new products

First Chinese TPC Member

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



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Supportive Point 3: RH5885 Ranked First in the TPC-E Test

1 TB memory

• 8 x E7-8800 CPUs

• 128 DIMM slots

• 16 x 2.5" hard disks

• 4 x E7-4800 CPUs

• 64 DIMM slots

• 8 or 10 x 2.5" hard disks

RH5885 V2

(4-socket)

RH5885 V2

(8-socket)

TPC-E test story

After the Huawei 4-socket RH5885 V2 got 3054 tpsE in the TPC-E test, IBM reconfigures its x3850 X5 to achieve the 3218 tpsE score.

With 1 TB memory, the Huawei RH5885 V2 achieves higher score in the TPC-E test than the IBM x3850 and HP DL580 G7.

3,218 3,054

2,827

2,455 2,651

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

IBM 4S x3850 X5 (2TB)

Huawei 4S RH5885 V2 (1TB)

IBM 4S x3850 X5(1TB)

HP 4S DL580 G7 (1TB)

Fujitsu 4S RX500 G7 (512GB)

TPC-E Performance (tpsE)

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



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Supportive Point 4: All-round Energy-saving Technologies to Ensure Optimal Energy Efficiency

Huawei dynamic energy management

technology (DEMT) Energy-saving cooling design

1. Vector airflow management

2. Double-faced cellular boards

3. Aluminium board embedded

with copper heat sink

4. Unique air channel design

Highly efficient PSUs

Dynamic power capping

Energy-saving and performance-

optimized OS

Device hibernation and awakening

Energy

efficiency

No.1

1. CPU hibernation

2. Hard disk

hibernation

1. High-efficiency POL

module

2. 80 Plus PSUs

3. HVDC power supply

1. Dynamic disabling of CPU cores

2. CPU frequency and voltage

adjustment

3. Dynamic memory frequency

adjustment

1. Dynamic phase closing for power

supply

2. Non-simultaneous power-on hard

disks

3. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)

4. Non-simultaneous power-on server

blades

3. PSU hibernation

4. System

hibernation

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



1. Energy reservation

menu in the BIOS

2. OS performance

optimization

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Supportive Point 5: Huawei Server Energy-saving Technologies Recognized Worldwide

Huawei full series of rack servers passed the Energy Star, China Environmental Labelling, and Energy Conservation and Environmentally-friendly Certification released by China Quality Certification Center (CQC)certification. Huawei

is the first vendor that obtained the China Environmental Labelling certification.

Country/Region EU North America China International Russia Australia Nigeria Saudi

Arabia Mexico

Compulsory

Certification REACH-DOC ROHS-DOC CE-SDOC WEEE

UL

FCC

(United States)

IC

(Canada) CCC CB GOST C-TICK SONCAP SASO UL-COC NOM

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



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3. High Security and Controllability: Unique Vendor That Supports One-Stop R&D, Production, and Delivery

Huawei proprietary chips

(management chips and NC chips) Hardware schematic diagram

PCB interconnection

(backplane switching)

Heat dissipation simulation

BIOS/BMC and CPLD/FPGA iMana (management software)

Basically, competitors in China do not have comprehensive R&D systems. Most of them provide OEM servers

from Taiwan and United States.

Competitors such as HP, IBM, Dell, and Cisco design architecture and management software and have ODM

vendors such as Foxconn, Inventec, Quanta for the design, test, and production.

1. Huawei uses self-developed products to

provide customized, optimized servers.

2. Huawei servers are not OEM products,

which ensures end-to-end quality and

delivery.

0

Sugon servers are OEM products and tested

with defects in the China Mobile's test. The

rectification requires a long time because Sugon

products rely on Taiwan ODM vendors.

Customer Case

Customer Benefits

Low failure rate



Outstanding energy

efficiency

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Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency


High availability

Continuous innovation

Competitors' servers operate in the range of 10°C to 35°C. Huawei mainstream

servers operate in the range of 5°C to 40°C.

4. High Availability: High Adaptability and Stable Running in 40°C

Competitors' server operating

temperature range 10℃ to 35℃ Huawei RH2285 operating

temperature range 5℃ to 40℃

The 40°C specifications are higher

than that of all competitors except

IBM. Huawei servers use the same fans

as those of IBM servers. However, IBM

servers support the 40°C specifications

under specific conditions.

In the temperature range of 5°C to 35°C, the Huawei RH2288H

V2 supports CPUs (80 W to 130 W) to work at the normal

frequency (without frequency decrease) when one fan fails;

however, when one fan fails or in the temperature higher than

30°C, CPU performance of HP servers is affected.

The Dell R720 and R720xd support the one-fan failure under

specific conditions.

Note: Huawei servers such as the RH2285 V2, RH2288 V2, RH2485 V2, E9000, XH310 V2, and XH311 V2 support

the high temperature of 40°C. Other Huawei servers support this temperature under specific conditions.

1. Huawei servers can operate in a

maximum temperature of 40°C, which

reduces cooling costs of the equipment

room.

2. Huawei servers provide high availability

to ensure service continuity for

customers.

1. When air conditioners in the Ministry of

Railways (MOR) equipment room fail,

competitors' servers break down as the

temperature in the equipment room rises.

However, Huawei servers are running

normally.

Customer Case

Customer Benefits

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Heat competitiveness comparison

RH2285H IBM 3650

Temperature 5°C to 40°C 10°C to 35°C

Dimensions (H x W x D) 86.1 mm x 447 mm x 740 mm 85.2 mm x 443.6 mm x 698 mm

Heat Dissipation

Capability 800 W 675 W

SPECpower 5088 4708

Key technologies:

• Vector airflow management: ensures heat dissipation for high-power CPUs (95 W/130

W/135 W) by efficiently using limited airflow.

• Double-faced cellular board: increases the amount of system airflow input by achieving

the open porosity of 43%, which increased 115% compared with HP's products.

• MIMO dynamic energy control: reduces energy consumption by 4.22%, raising the

ranking position from No.6 to No.1.

• Heat sink of aluminum substrate embedded with copper: reduces the heat sink weight

by 45%, cutting the cost by 40%.

Advantages:

• Huawei servers rank first in the industry SPECpower test.

• The heat dissipation capability of Huawei servers supports smooth evolution of servers, three-to-five-year

evolution of the architecture, and two-generation evolution of CPUs.

• Huawei servers can run at 40°C. The general running temperature in the industry is 35°C.

Multiple-input multiple-output

(MIMO) dynamic energy control

Heat sink of aluminum

substrate embedded

with copper

Aluminum substrate Copper

Double-faced cellular board

System vector

airflow management

CPU

Supportive Point 1: Vector Airflow Management, Dynamic

Energy Control, Full Series CPUs Running at 40°C

Low failure

rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency


High availability


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Supportive Point 2: The MIMO Technology

Saves Energy by 5%

Fan control

Temperature (chips,

Ta) CPU states

Fan speed

Fan speed

Target temperature

Noise limitation

Temperature limitation

CPU states

Input Output

Background:

When the traditional fan speed adjustment technology is used, the fan speed is minimized

when the device is operating at the normal temperature, ensuring lowest noise while

implementing heat dissipation.

As the x86 manufacturing process develops (especially for the process of less than 45 ns),

the leakage current of CPUs increases with the temperature. For example, when the

temperature of a CPU developed on the SNB platform increases by 1°C, the power

consumption of the CPU increases by about 0.7 W.

The fan power consumption is proportional to the fan speed by cube.

P_total = P_blade + P_fan

P_total: Specifies the device power consumption.

P_blade: Specifies the hardware power consumption.

P_fan: Specifies the fan power consumption.

The higher the fan speed, the lower the component temperature and the smaller the

leakage current, that is, the smaller P_blade.

The higher the fan speed, the higher the fan power consumption, that is, the higher

P_fan.

MIMO heat dissipation and energy saving technology:

The MIMO technology dynamically controls the fan speed in real time, balances the fan

power consumption and hardware power consumption, and optimizes the system power

consumption based on parameter value changes.

The input parameters for energy control include the temperature (temperature of chips and

environment), CPU running status, fan speed, and thresholds (noise/temperature). The

output parameters include the target temperature of components, fan speed, and CPU

status.

Energy saving effect:

The MIMO technology can save energy by 5%, which is higher than the traditional fan speed

adjustment technology.

Relationship between the CPU

leakage current and temperature

Fan speed

Syste

m p

ow

er

CPU high utilization

CPU low utilization

Relationship between the optimal

energy saving point and fan speed

Low failure

rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency


High availability


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Partition board between half-width slots

PSU air channel

Half-width slot

LCD guide rail area

Air channel for rear modules

Front server blade area

PSU air channel

Supportive Point 3: Independent Air Channels Increase Heat Dissipation Efficiency

Independent PSU

cool air channel

Three fan

modules

support N+1

redundancy.

Independent air channels for the PCIe card:

Z-shaped air channel and C-shaped air channel

Independent air channel

for server nodes

X6000 high-density server

Independent air channels

E9000 blade server

Low failure

rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency


High availability


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5. Continuous Innovation: Huawei Proprietary Core Chips to Accelerate Applications and Improve Service Performance

• Service bottlenecks focus on I/O. Computing

performance is sufficient. However, I/O

bandwidth is insufficient.

• Limited hard disk read and write bandwidth and

disunified ports

CPU interconnection chips

The Node Controller 1.0 is approved

and accepted in China. The new-

generation NC 2.0 (interconnection x86

CPU) is being developed.

Server management

chip

Single chip, low power

consumption, and

wireless management

features

Huawei proprietary I/O chips

Converged 10GE/RoCE/FCoE/FC

RAID controller

I/O acceleration card

PCIe SSD card with industry-leading

performance

iNIC with excellent virtualization

performance

1. The 8-socket or higher system provides higher

performance and reliability.

2. The I/O acceleration solution provides higher

bandwidth to fully realize the CPU potential.

The Deltares uses the E9000. The customer said that the

HP C7000 is too plastic compared with the Huawei E9000.

The 32-socket fault-tolerant computer that uses the NC 1.0

chips is approved and accepted by the Ministry of Science.

The Huawei E9000 with the iNIC provides the highest

SPECvirt virtual performance.

Huawei servers got the first place in the SSD

StorageReview test.

Customer Case

Customer Benefits

Low failure rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency



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Supportive Point 1: Continuous Innovation, Huawei-Developed Key Server Chips

Out-of-band management chip (BMC)

• Adopts the single-chip solution to reduce power

consumption and space.

• Implements stateless computing and wireless

management.

Hadoop acceleration card

• Uses the hardware uninstallation GZIP

algorithm, decreasing the CPU usage by 20%

and compression and decompression power

consumption by 80%.

• Provides a standard ZLIB to enable upper-layer

services to use hardware compression cards

transparently.

Convergence I/O chip

• 10 GE, RDMA (10 GE), TOE, FCoE, FC

8G/16G all in one

• High cost-effectiveness

PCIe SSD controller chip

• SSD controller that provides the SAS/PCIe

interface.

• Supports PCIe 3.0 and SAS 3.0.

RAID controller chip

• Improves I/O performance and supports the

supercapacitor, HA backup, and PCIe SSD

controller.

• Implements 3D networking, secure policies, and

return on capital employed (RoCE) low-latency

network.

• Supports high-performance, low-cost virtualization

network solutions.

Future-oriented network chip

Low failure

rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency


High availability


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Supportive Point 2: Highly Efficient Interconnection Chips for Multiple Servers

Meets requirements for high-

performance OLTP database

applications and provides low-

latency, high-bandwidth

interconnecting architecture for 8-

socket to 64-socket servers that use

Xeon CPUs.

Supports migration of

interconnection of massive CPU

nodes and provides key

technologies based on scale out

and scale up convergence to

support low-latency interconnection

expansion.

NC

CPU

DIMM

CPU

NC

CPU

DIMM

CPU

NC

CPU

DIMM

CPU

Zone 3 Zone 4 Zone N

NC

Zone 1

NC DIMM DIMM

CPU CPU

NC

Zone 2

NC DIMM DIMM

Interconnect

Low failure

rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency


High availability


CPU CPU CPU CPU

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Supportive Point 3: Unique Value-Added Components Eliminate I/O Bottlenecks and Significantly Increase I/O Performance

Data compression card iNIC

The data compression card applies to Hadoop and

WebServer services, reducing CPU usage and storage

space while improving service performance.

The CPU usage is lower than 20%.

The compression performance reaches 350 MB/s, and

decompression performance achieves 600 MB/s.

The iNIC is a high-performance network interface card. It

applies to firewall, network detection and analysis, and

virtualization applications.

The iNIC adopts load balancing among multiple queues

and zero copy to provide high performance and lower CPU

usage.

PCIe SSD card

Huawei is the first company which achieves

commercial use of PCIe SSD cards in the industry.

Dynamic wear leveling algorithm, bad block

management, and RAID 5 properties are embedded

to provide ultra high reliability.

The PCIe SSD card Improves SQL Server 2012

query performance by 1.5 to 4 times.

The PCIe SSD card reduces query time by 15 to

3000 times.

Low failure

rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency


High availability


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Supportive Point 4: Core Technologies of High-End Fault-Tolerant Servers

Four technological breakthroughs:

CPU interconnect chip

Fault-tolerant OS

Virtualization software

35 system reliability features Ceremony of online

application demonstration

2012: Huawei 32-socket, high-end, fault-tolerant servers

completed its online application demonstration on the PCRM

system of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) and accounting

system of China Unicom.

2007: Huawei participated in the High-End Fault Tolerant

Computer Project of National High-tech R&D Program of

China (863 Program).

Low failure

rate

Outstanding energy

efficiency


High availability


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DEMT Introduction DEMT: Dynamic Energy Management Technology

The DEMT is a dynamic energy-saving technology developed by Huawei. The technology automatically monitors server

resource usage based on service loads, dynamically adjust the server running status based on resource utilization,

provides minimum power based on service requirements, and minimizes server power consumption. The DEMT reduces system power consumption for various load levels and does not affect service performance.

Energy saving is automatically triggered and monitored in closed-loop mode without manual intervention.

Server PSUs, CPUs, and fan modules can be adjusted to minimize power consumption, meeting different service requirements.

Energy-saving effect for DEMT in various service loads

Remarks: The data is obtained for the

RH2282 V2 server in the integer

computing benchmark test. The effect

varies for different server configurations.

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Power Capping Technology Introduction Background The power supply and heat dissipation costs for data centers dramatically increase and exceed devices costs.

The power supply and heat dissipation capabilities of data centers do not meet requirements for service expansion.

The power supply and heat dissipation equipment of the IDC is underused.

Advantages Assigns power supply and heat dissipation resources based on actual device power, improving power efficiency.

Increases reliability without affecting service performance.

Eliminates the risks of insufficient heat dissipation and power supply if air conditioners are faulty or service loads

increase.

Supports more devices in a rack.

A rack can house more devices after the power

capping technology is implemented.

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Energy Saving Design • Platinum PSUs are used, and the power conversion

efficiency reaches 94%

Dynamic load adjustment: evenly assigns PSU loads to ensure efficient

power conversion.

High-efficient 1+1 redundant PSUs, meeting system power supply

requirements

• Support for AC and 240 V high-voltage direct current

(HVDC) power supplies

Support for hot swap, meeting reliability requirements for 220 V AC and

240 V DC

Support for 240 V DC for 240 V HVDC equipment rooms, reducing energy

consumption by over 10%

PSU

240 V HVDC power supply

RH2285

Traditional UPS power supply and distribution

• Traditional UPS: Four times of DC/AC conversion. The power

supply efficiency for a single bus is about 64%. Two buses are

used in the equipment room, and the power supply efficiency is

less than 60%.

Support for AC

and 240 V HVDC

power supplies

• 240 V HVDC: One time of conversion reduced, power supply

efficiency up to 70%

• Efficiency is improved, and carriers' construction and operating

costs are greatly reduced.

240 V HVDC power supply and distribution

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Success Case: Tencent Data Center

The X6000 uses a passive backplane, no cables for internal components, and ventilation channels to ensure high

reliability.

The Dell C6220 has lower reliability than the X6000. The reasons as follows:

Uses an active backplane with low reliability

Uses a lot of cables to connect the backplane and server nodes, which leads to low cooling efficiency and a high failure rate. No

ventilation channel exists for the PSUs.

A large quantity of Huawei X series servers are used for Tencent's applications.

Huawei servers earn the reputation for the low failure rate and high reliability.

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Competitiveness of High-Performance Servers

CPU/Memory TPS of a Physical Machine TPS of a VM Average

Performance Value

Performance Percentage

Lower than the Huawei

Server

Hardware Cost Percentage Lower

than Huawei Hardware (Different

Memory Configuration)

Huawei 4-socket

RH5885

4 x E7-4820/256 GB 2728 2952 2840

HP DL580 4 x E7-4820/128 GB About 2450 About 1800 2125 33.6% 10.90%

IBM X3850 4 x E7-4820/64 GB 2366 1149 1756 61.7% 17%

Inspur NF8560M2 4 x E7-4820/64 GB 1874 370 1122 153.1% 17%

Fujitsu Test failed (Only one group

of data can be tested.)

Test failed

4 sockets

CPU/Memory TPS of a Physical

Machine TPS of a VM

Average Performance

Value

Performance Percentage Lower than

the Huawei Server

Huawei 8-socket RH5885 8 x E7-8830/256 GB 4029 4250 4140

HP DL980 8 x E7-8830/256 GB

IBM X3950 8 x E7-8830/256 GB 3338 1903 2620 58.0%

Inspur TS850 621 466 543.5 661.7%

8 sockets

Remarks: high-end virtualization server comparison from China Mobile

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