HUAWEI Tecal RH Series

V2 Rack Servers
Server Marketing Dept, IT Product Line

Contents

Positioning

Overview

Features

Application Scenarios and Benefits

Huawei Rack Server Family

E7-8800

High performance

E7-4800

RH5885 V2 - 4
sockets

E5-2400 E5-2600

E7-4800

RH5885 V2 - 8
sockets

E5-4600

E5-2600
RH2488 V2RH2485 V2
RH2285 V2RH2288 V2
RH1288 V2
(under
development)
High scalability
1 U and 2
sockets

2 U and 2 sockets

4-socket server

8-socket server

* The RH1288 V2 will be launched in 2013 Q1.

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Applications of Low, Medium, and High

Configurations
RH5885 V2

The RH5885 V2, as Huawei's flagship x86 product, is scalable

to 8 U and 8-socket from 4 U and 4-socket, featuring high
performance, scalability, and reliability.

RH2485 V2

The mid-range 4-socket rack server integrates computing and

storage resources in a compact 2 U space, which meets strict
requirements for a good balance between price and space.

RH2488 V2

The entry-level 4-socket rack server provides a 2 U space and

supports E7 processors, which meets strict requirements for a
good balance between the price and space.

RH2288 V2

The 2 U 2-socket rack server features high performance and

scalability and also is the most widely applied 2 U server.

RH2285 V2

The economical 2 U 2-socket rack server meets

requirements for IT infrastructure and ultra-large local
storage applications.

RH1288 V2

The compact 1 U 2-socket rack server provides high computing

density and large-capacity memory in a 1 U space, which
meets requirements for dense computing applications.

High

Low

Contents

Positioning

Overview

Features

Application Scenarios and Benefits

RH2285 V2
The 2 U 2-socket server has a unique design and provides
ultra-large local storage with cost-effectiveness, which
meets requirements for big data application scenarios.

Features

Specifications

Ultra-large local storage capacity up to 26 TB

Improved data security and reliability and
larger capacity for data storage by using two
internal disks as system partitions
Power-off RAID protection provided by
capacitors which feature long life cycle, zero
maintenance, and no use limitation thanks to
no need for charge and discharge
Various configuration options with
competitive prices
Redundancy design for key components,
ensuring high reliability

Application scenarios and benefits

2 Intel Xeon E5-2400 CPUs

12 RDIMM/LRDIMM slots
12*3.5'+ 2*2.5' or 8*2.5' or 26*2.5' SAS/SATA disks,
supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, 6, and 60
Up to 512MB/1GB cache with an optional battery or
capacitor
Onboard 2*GE ports, 1 management port, and 5
PCIe slots
TPM and built-in USB drive or USB flash card
2 redundant hot-swappable PSUs

Big data applications, such as cyberspace,

online video, microblog, and online
community services
Enterprise and government office file servers
The RH2285 V2 provides large storage
capacity at a competitive price and meets
requirements for performance and reliability,
which enables economical data storage
solutions.

RH2288 V2
The 2 U 2-socket server applies the latest processor technology
that features flexible scalability and excellent performance, which
meets requirements for enterprise-level reliability and enables
wide range of applications.

Features

Specifications

Up to 768 GB memory capacity with DIMMs at

twice the usual height in a 2-socket server
Elastic expansion capability for DIMMs,
disks, and I/O, which enables wide range of
applications and protects investments
Redundancy design for key components,
ensuring high reliability

Application scenarios and benefits

2 Intel Xeon E5-2600 CPUs

24 RDIMM/LRDIMM Specifications
slots
12*3.5' + 2*2.5' or 8*2.5' or 26*2.5' SAS/SATA disks,
supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, 6, and 60
Up to 512MB/1GB cache with an optional battery or
capacitor
Onboard 4*GE ports, 1 management port, and 6 PCIe
slots
TPM and built-in USB drive or USB flash card
2 redundant hot-swappable PSUs

Databases for small- and medium-sized

enterprises, enterprise resource planning
(ERP), and intelligent analysis
Virtualization, middleware, and data caching
fields
The RH2288 V2 provides excellent scalability,
enterprise-level reliability, and economical
memory solutions, which ensures system
performance development and continuous ROI.

RH2488 V2
The 2 U 4-socket server uses high-end Intel Xeon E7
processors to provide up to 40-core computing capability
in a compact space.

Features

Four E7 processors supported within the 2 U

space
Sufficient DIMMs and disks in a compact
space, which efficiently utilizes the space
Flexible PCIe options, meeting various
requirements for port bandwidth
performance and numbers
Redundancy design for key components,
ensuring high reliability

Application scenarios and benefits

Specifications

Specifications
4 Intel Xeon E7-4800
CPUs
32 RDIMM/LRDIMM slots
6*3.5' SAS or SATA disks, supporting RAID 0, 1, and 5
Up to 512 MB cache with an optional battery
Onboard 2*GE ports, 1 management port, and 5 PCIe

slots
2 redundant hot-swappable PSUs

Dense computing applications such as highperformance computing, simulation, and data

mining; expansion applications such as
medium-sized databases and ERP
The RH2488 V2 uses the E7 processing
platform and an optimized design to
minimize the cost.

RH2485 V2
The 2 U 4-socket server uses the latest processor
technology to provide economical and elastic scalability
in a compact space.

Features

Specifications

More economical computing capability of 4

CPUs in a more compact space than earlier
versions
Excellent memory scalability up to 24
DIMMs/U, increased by 33%
Integrated 10GE ports, providing higher
bandwidth and lower latency
More expansion slots than competitors' 2 U
products
Redundancy design for key components,
ensuring high reliability

Application scenarios and benefits

4 Intel Xeon E5-4600 CPUs

48 RDIMM/LRDIMM slots
8*2.5' SAS or SATA disks, supporting RAID 0, 1, 10, 5,
50, 6, and 60
Up to 512MB/1GB cache with an optional battery or
capacitor
Onboard 4*GE ports and (optional) 2*10GE ports, 1
management port, and 8 PCIe slots
TPM and built-in USB drive or USB flash card
2 redundant hot-swappable PSUs

Large- and medium-sized enterprise

databases, ERP, virtualization, and data
mining
The RH2485 V2 provides excellent scalability
and reliability with the 4-socket
configuration, which meets customers'
requirements for a cost-effective system.

RH5885 V2 - 4 sockets
The 4 U 4-socket server uses the high-end Intel E7
processor platform to provide a high-performance and highreliability data processing platform for key services.

Features

Application scenarios and benefits

Specifications

Excellent memory scalability and up to 512

GB/U memory capacity
High-reliability for the system, memory
mirroring, hot backup, and redundancy for
components such as PSUs and fan modules
Simple management and maintenance and
management interfaces that comply with
international standards, which easily
integrates into the system management
platform

4 Intel Xeon E7-4800 CPUs

Specifications
64 RDIMM/LRDIMM slots
10*2.5' SAS or SATA disks, supporting RAID 0,
1, and 5 with a 512 MB or 1 GB cache
Onboard 4*GE ports or 2*10GE ports or
2*10GE and 2*GE ports
9 PCIe slots or (optional) 11 PCIe slots
2 redundant hot-swappable PSUs

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Large- and medium-sized enterprise

databases, virtualization, and a balance
system for enterprise-level workload
The RH5885 V2 provides excellent flexibility
to meet requirements for changing workloads
and high reliability to ensure normal running
of workloads, which achieves high
performance and usage with lower cost.

RH5885 V2 - 8 sockets
The 8 U 8-socket server uses the Intel E7 flagship
processor platform to provide a reliable data processing
platform for core services with strong performance and
scalability.

Features

On-demand configuration, supporting the

seamless upgrade from 4 sockets to 8
sockets
Super high performance with 80 computing
cores, 128 DIMM slots, and 16 PCIe slots
Rewriting multiple SPEC and TPC
performance test records
High reliability technology inherited from
Huawei 32-socket servers with fault
tolerance mechanism and 35 RAS features

Application scenarios and benefits

Specifications

Specifications

8 Intel Xeon E7-8800 CPUs

128 RDIMM/LRDIMM slots
16*2.5' SAS or SATA disks, supporting RAID 0,
1, and 5 with a 512 MB or 1 GB cache
Onboard 8*GE ports or 4*10GE and 4*GE ports
16 PCIe slots
4 redundant hot-swappable PSUs

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Substitutes for 4-socket midrange

computers, improving system flexibility and
reducing operating cost
Large databases for key services
The RH5885 V2 supports seamless upgrades
from 4 sockets to 8 sockets to meet
requirements for explosive development of
elastic services.

Comparison with Competitors' Rack Servers

Platform
1U2P
Contents
1U2P
Contents
2U2P
Contents
Rack server

2U2P
Contents

HP

IBM

CISCO

DL360e Gen8
X3530 M4
R420
C22 M3
2*CPU/12*DIMM/4*G
2*CPU/12*DIMM/2*GE 2*CPU/12*DIMM/2*GE 2*CPU/12*DIMM/2*GE
E /2*PCIE/4 or
/2*PCIE/4 or 8*HDD
/2*PCIE/4 or 8*HDD
/2*PCIE/4 or 8*HDD
8*HDD
DL360p Gen8
X3550 M4
R620
C220 M3
2*CPU/24*DIMM/4*G 2*CPU/24*DIMM/4*GE+ 2*CPU/24*DIMM/2*GE
2*CPU/16*DIMM/2*GE
E /2*PCIE/4 or
2*10GE /2*PCIE/3 or
+2*10GE
/2*PCIE/4 or 8*HDD
8*HDD
8*HDD
/3*PCIE/10*HDD
DL380e Gen8
X3630 M4
R520
C240 M3
2*CPU/12*DIMM/4*G
2*CPU/12*DIMM/2*GE 2*CPU/12*DIMM/2*GE 2*CPU/12*DIMM/2*GE
E /4*PCIE/8 or 12 or
/4*PCIE/14*HDD
/4*PCIE/8*HDD
/5*PCIE/12 or 24*HDD
25*HDD
DL380p Gen8
X3650 M4
R720/R720xd
C240 M3
2*CPU/24*DIMM/4*G 2*CPU/24*DIMM/4*GE+ 2*CPU/24*DIMM/2*GE
2*CPU/24*DIMM/4*GE
E+2*10GE
2*10GE
+2*10GE /7*PCIE/8 or
/5*PCIE/12 or 24*HDD
/6*PCIE/16*HDD
/6*PCIE/16*HDD
16 or 26*HDD

4U4P

DL580 G7

X3850 X5

Contents

4*CPU/64*DIMM/4*G
E /11*PCIE/8*HDD

4*CPU/64*DIMM/2*GE
/7*PCIE/8*HDD

2U4P
Contents

Dell

DL

R910

C460 M2

Huawei

/
RH1288 V2
under development
RH2285 V2
2*CPU/12*DIMM/2*GE
/4*PCIE/8 or 14 or 26*HDD
RH2288 V2
2*CPU/24*DIMM/4*GE
/5*PCIE/8 or 14 or 26*HDD
RH5885 V2

4*CPU/64*DIMM/2*GE 4*CPU/64*DIMM/2*GE 4*CPU/64*DIMM/2*GE+2*10

+2*10GE
+2*10GE
GE /10*PCIE(hot/10*PCIE/16*HDD
/10*PCIE/12*HDD
plug)/10*HDD

X3750 M4
R820
4*CPU/48*DIMM/2*GE+ 4*CPU/48*DIMM/4*GE
2*10GE
+2*10GE
/8*PCIE/16*HDD
/7*PCIE/16*HDD

C420 M3

RH2485 V2

4*CPU/48*DIMM/2*10
GE /6*PCIE/16*HDD

4*CPU/48*DIMM/4*GE+2*10
GE /7*PCIE/8*HDD

Huawei rack servers provide more flexible configuration options for

network ports, PCIe slots, and local storage.
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Contents

Positioning

Overview

Features

Application Scenarios and Benefits

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Feature 1: Superior RAID Solution

Pollutionfree material

Waste
battery
pollution

Same
service life
as that of the
device

Short
service
life

Periodical
charge and
discharge

Zero
maintenance

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Feature 2: Application Acceleration

Solution
Huawei rack server

PCIe SSD card

+
100% Random Read IOPS at 4 KB
700000

Maximum read and write bandwidth

MBps

600000
3500

600000
500000

Increased 2400%-100000%

3000

Increased 400%-2000%

3000

2500

400000

2000

300000

1500

200000

1000

100000

High I/O performance server

with more balanced
performance and application
acceleration

600

26000

500
7000

150

0
SAS SATA SSD

800
370

ES3000

FC

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SAS

SATA SSD

FC

ES3000

Feature 3: TPM for Server Security

Integrity
measurement to
protect the
device from
virus

Network identity
authentication to
block untrusted
access

Security solution
with TPM

Encrypted
data
transmission

0101010101010

010101010

Cipher key to
keep the device
from loosing or
disclosing
sensitive data

Access
authorization
for protected
data

Complying
with TCG TPM
1.2

Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

Trusted Computing Group (TCG)

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Feature: High Efficiency

When working in low load, the
processors decrease the
operating frequency to reduce
the computing energy
consumption.
Dynamic
frequency
adjustment
for
processors

Intelligent
adjustment

Energy
saving

The dynamic power capping

technology controls the power
consumption of data center servers to
fall within the range of preset
configuration, preventing the power
consumption from increasing without
limits.
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Power
capping

Sensors in key components monitor

the temperature in real time and
dynamically adjust the fan speed to
save energy on heat dissipation.

Highly
efficient PSUs

80 Plus Platinum PSUs with an

efficiency up to 94%; automatic
phase closing used by PSUs to
reduce energy consumption in
low load

Feature 5: Unified Zero Touch Management

Integrates the BMC that complies with IPMI 2.0 to monitor the server intelligently.
Provides an independent 10/100M BMC out-of-band management network port and supports SOL.
Supports real-time monitoring for the temperature of the system environment (at the air intake vent) and key
components such as processors and DIMMs, and for the fan speed.
Provides web-based management UIs, requiring no management software.
Supports KVM over IP and virtual media that provides remote virtual CD-ROM drives and FDDs.
Supports the remote BIOS or firmware upgrade
Uses a default IP address for the management network port and allows you to change the IP address in the
BIOS or set it to the DHCP mode.
Provides the function to locate a fault in an instant, which is similar to a black box for aeroplanes.

Internet
/Intranet

Remote management
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Contents

Positioning

Overview

Features

Application Scenarios and Benefits

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Application Recommendation for

Huawei RH Series Servers
Theme

Application Scenario

RH2285 V2

RH2288 V2

RH2485 V2

RH2488 V2

RH5885 V2

Infrastructure

Virtualization
Business continuity
Database
Email/collaboration
Security
Web services
File and printing

Web 2.0

Searching
Content
Community
Commerce
Collaboration

Service
application

ERP / SCM
CRM
Hosted client
Retail client
Distributed application

Cluster/HPC
Modeling and simulation

High performance
computing (HPC) High-performance database
Business intelligence

Primary application and cost effectiveness comparison

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Recommend

Optional

OK

Solution with the RH2285 V2 Configured with

SSD Cards and High-speed I/O
Actual service test data
User

Bandwidth
Number of
concurrent
connections

Internet

Load balancing servers

Web servers

H
A

6 SAS disks

PCIe SSD

100 MB

400 MB

1500

5000

Processing capability increased by 400%

Bandwidth increased by 400%, the number of concurrent connections

increased by 350%, and service processing capability increased by 400%
Utilization efficiency of server resources improved
Operating cost and server quantity decreased

Each node supports more users to minimize the required number of nodes.

The IDC rent and O&M cost reduce due to the decreased number of
servers.

Huawei SSD solution enhances your service

competitiveness.

Index databases

Media data servers

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Solution with the RH2285 V2 Configured

with iNIC
Background: An Internet emergency center is responsible for monitoring data at the international egress and
ingress over the Internet of a country, including mails, virus, and voice. The center has deployed hundred thousands
of servers at international egresses to monitor data on all backbone networks in recent years. Configured with
standard NICs, each server provides the processing capability of 600 Mbit/s. With the increase of international
egress bandwidth and deployment of new services, a large number of servers are deployed, which consumes a
large amount of energy and becomes a burden.
SRS
Internet

SPS
SSP

Service Splitting Platform

(SSP)

Security policy server (SPS)

Service routing server (SRS)

Service analysis server (SAS)

Database server

Web server

SAS

Splitting

DB

Switch

GSR
Web server
MAN

Interference link
Switch

This solution uses iNICs to improve processing capability of a single server to reach 2 Gbit/s. It provides
customized protocol offload to further improve the processing capability of a single server.

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Huawei RH2288 V2 Builds Cloud

Computing Platform

Challenges of Customers

High-performance compute nodes

High-speed Ethernet

Large memory capacity for each VM

Large-capacity storage for each node

Unified maintenance for multiple nodes

Simple applications and maintenance

Customized services (customer asset

management and open API with optimized

performance

This solution uses the RH2288 V2 to build a cloud computing platform featuring high-performance
computing, high-speed network, and large-capacity storage, which meets cloud computing
requirements while reduces the TCO.

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Typical Application 1 for the RH5885 V2:

Database High-Availability and Backup
Solution
Solution overview
Oracle RAC
RH5885 V2

Backup server

RH5885 V2

RH2285 V2

SAN

VTL3500
OceanStor S6900

The RH5885 V2 is the optimal choice for

enterprise database applications. Its
excellent performance maximizes
database functions, its high reliability
ensures stable running of the service
platform, and its high scalability meets
requirements for enterprise service
development.
The storage backup platform with the RH2285
V2, S6900, and VTL3500 ensures security
Typical configuration
of enterprises'
core data.
Hardware
RH5885 V2(4*E7-4820, 64 GB)
RH2285 V2(2*XE5-2420, 16 GB)
SAN switch
HUAWEI OceanStor S6900
Huawei VTL3500
Software
SUSE Enterprise Linux10
Oracle database
Oracle RAC cluster software

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2
1
2
1
1

Typical Application 2 for the RH5885 V2:

Virtualization Consolidation Solution
VM

VM
Vmotion link
VMware VirtualCenter
RH5885 V2

RH5885 V2

Solution overview

SAN switch

SAN switch

VM files

VM files
SAN
LAN

Disk array

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This solutions use VMware virtualization

software to consolidate the OA, mail, CRM, and
ERP on two redundant RH5885 V2 servers.
Virtual machine (VM) files are stored in storage
devices to ensure I/O performance and data
security. The VMware VMotion enables dynamic
migration for VMs without interrupting services.
DRS enables dynamic resource allocation.
Configuration recommendation
RH5885 V2 (4*E7-4820, 128 GB)
SAN switch
HUAWEI OceanStor S5300
VMware Vsphere (4 CPU)

Quantity
2
2
1
1

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