In September 2017, the ESG lab tested the performance, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and total cost of ownership (TCO) of Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3. The ESG set up a real service environment and tested the performance and reliability of Huawei all-flash storage for applications such as VMs, databases, and mailboxes.

The following figure shows the test environment used in the ESG lab. The VMware vSphere 6.0 virtualization infrastructure is deployed on 10 Huawei FusionServer RH series rack servers, with two dual-controller Huawei OceanStor Dorado5000 V3 storage systems connected to the back-end.