OceanStor Dorado AFA greatly reduces your OPEX David Gordon Wed 16 Dec 2020 // 23:00 UTC Share Copy Sponsored Huawei researchers have demonstrated how the latest generation of its all-flash storage arrays cab deliver blistering performance on database workloads and drastically slash database license fees by delivering better CPU utilisation. The 5G and AI data explosions have increased performance and cost challenges. Typical IOPS demands on enterprise core systems exceed 200,000 IOPS and demand latency of around 1ms. Researchers at Huawei set up a best practice verification test of the Oracle Database 18c Enterprise Edition with a four controller OceanStor Dorado 18000 all flash system, running 40 900GB SSDs. The researchers used 12 hosts to deliver IO to the storage array, for a stable 500 microsecond latency. The database servers were Huawei RH2288H V6s, each with a total of 28 cores, and 256GB of RAM.