Huawei Converged Flash Array OceanStor V5

At its West European Partner Summit, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. released the Converged Flash Array OceanStor V5.

Huawei released Converged Flash Array OceanStor V5

Adopting the company’s lightning-fast rock-solid flash architecture and with built-in cloud and intelligence capabilities, these offerings will bring customers to a new age of storage.

Having inherited all enterprise-level functions and HA features of OceanStor V3 converged storage series, and incorporated the performance and convergence of the flash-oriented architecture, the OceanStor V5 series provides a comprehensive data management solution. With a rich store of mid-range and high-end configurations, the company is capable of meeting the diversified requirements of today and tomorrow.

Featuring high performance, flash storage plays an important role in business integration acceleration and data value mining of enterprises. With the growth of data volume, enterprises have attached more and more importance to data security and reliability.

The released Converged Flash Array are designed for mission-critical applications, ensuring high service availability and performance and allowing customers to further unleash the potential of flash. These offerings demonstrate the company’s commitment to making data more secure, operations more efficient, and guaranteeing business continuity, all while bringing down costs for enterprises.

Purpose-built for flash, the firm’s Converged Flash Array incorporate flash-oriented designs at the data plane, management plane, and O&M plane to deliver up to six million IO/s (number of read and write operations per second) and consistent latency of only 1ms, satisfying for today and future service development needs.

The SmartMatrix 2.0 enhanced switching matrix adopts an industry four controller full-redundancy architecture with only one engine. In terms of heat dissipation, The firm leads the way by applying the graphene dissipation technology (GDT) in SSDs, also named Flash-Ice. Thanks to the dynamic heat balance algorithm of the flash system, the heat dissipation capability is improved by over 500 times compared to that of traditional methods, and the duration of SSDs is extended by 20%. In addition, the company’s proprietary gateway-free active-active solution HyperMetro ensures 24/7 uninterrupted service availability with latency of less than 1ms.

The firm’s Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) solution makes the converged flash array cloud-ready. It helps data centers integrate storage resources, implement on-demand supply, improve resource utilization, simplifying the usage of storage and improving data center operation efficiency.

The eService intelligent management platform means the new offerings can help customers optimize storage management using AI and big data. Automatic service deployment, automatic adaptation of performance and capacity, and fault self-healing instill intelligence into storage management, simplifying data lifecycle management.