Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 All-Flash System

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. unveiled its new-generation convergent all-flash system OceanStor Dorado V3, which is designed for enterprises’ overloaded key applications.

Featuring performance, stability, reliability, and convergent efficiency, this system can improve database performance twentyfold while ensuring service sustainability.

New generation all-flash system
Enterprises across the globe face the impact of digital flooding as well as the challenge posed by fast-growing data scales and a growing demand for higher service processing performance and storage efficiency. As an accelerator of enterprises’ digitalization transformation, flash memory plays a crucial role, by virtue of its inherent advantages – high performance and an ability to speed up key services.

OceanStor Dorado V3 is a all-flash array that features flash-oriented storage OS, chips, and SSDend-to-end in-depth optimization. It provides four million IO/s while maintain outstanding performance (with a 500µs steady delay) and flash efficiency, capable of meeting the demand for processing overloaded services.

To address the high-reliability requirements for enterprise storage, OceanStor Dorado V3 adopts the patented flash reliability assurance technology of the company to extend the flash life threefold, while providing a gateway-free HyperMetro active-active solution to ensure the HA of services.

In addition to ensuring high performance, OceanStor Dorado V3 embodies the high efficiency of the cloud era. Its inline deduplication compression technology can increase the storage space usage rate by more than five times and reduce overall TCO by more than 70%.

Since starting its research into flash technologies in 2005, the company has accumulated eleven years of experience in this field. At present, the firm is provides self-developed storage OS, controllers, and SSD disks and is capable of performing end-to-end in-depth optimization on flash. Based on the products and solutions provided by the firm, not to mention its open ecosphere, customers can enjoy the service processing capabilities brought by flash technologies.

As partners of the company,  Intel Corp., Oracle International Corporation, and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., have shown their support for OceanStor Dorado V3 and its construction of a flash storage ecosphere from the viewpoint of their core capabilities in chips, databases, and networks, respectively.

“By using the capabilities of lower latency, higher performance and support for NVMe in the dual port versions of our Intel Datacenter SSD family for PCIe, Huawei is able to address growing enterprise storage requirements for reliability, speed and efficiency in their new all flash array solution“, said Greg Matson, sirector, planning and marketing, SSD datacenter, Intel. “By working closely with the ecosystem, such as our efforts with Huawei, these leading edge advancements in enterprise storage solutions will deliver HA data access without interruption while delivering the performance data center applications require.“

George Qi, director, sales consultant, Oracle (China), brought up the fact that the growth speed of storage lags far behind that of CPUs, causing a storage bottleneck in conventional systems. To solve this problem, many database vendors choose to optimize their software. All-flash storage products largely reduce complexity in database software and architecture design.

Daniel Cai, director, OEM for China, Brocade, said: “Legacy networks will bottleneck flash storage, and limit the performance and economic benefits of this revolutionary technology. The integration of the Brocade Gen 6 FC switch, which offers lower latency and higher bandwidth, with Huawei’s latest all-flash systems will greatly improve the overall performance of data centers and drive enterprises towards the all-flash data center.“

Fan Ruiqi, president, storage product line, Huawei, pointed out: “As early as five years ago, Huawei foresaw the immense potential for flash memory and released its first-generation all-flash products. This enabled Huawei to accumulate a rich knowledge of the flash memory market. OceanStor Dorado V3, emerged in response to the demand for core overload applications, and possesses leading characteristics that similar products in the industry lack and speeds up enterprises’ core applications without compromising reliability and data processing efficiency.“