MWC: Huawei OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 Entry-Level AFA System

During MWC19, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. launched the OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 entry-level all-flash storage system and the OceanStor Dorado NVMe) mid-range and high-end all-flash storage, with performance, enterprise features, and efficiency.

Ronald Raffensperger, CTO, enterprise data center solutions, Huawei,
launches OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 entry-level all-flash storage

The storage systems meet the demands of database, VDI, Virtual Server Infrastructure (VSI), and other scenarios, facilitating data centers of customers in finance, manufacturing, and telecommunications sectors to step into the all-flash era.

It is crucial for enterprises to future-proof their infrastructure by adopting the all-flash storage that meets their evolving business needs. Since the launch of the OceanStor Dorado V3 all-flash storage series in 2016, the company’s all-flash storage has experienced market acceptance.

According to the Gartner’s 2018 Q3 statistics^[1], the firm achieved the highest revenue growth rate in the global all-flash market. OceanStor Dorado V3 mid-range and high-end all-flash storage (including OceanStor Dorado5000 V3, OceanStor Dorado6000 V3 and OceanStor Dorado18000 V3) fully supports the NVMe architecture. NVMe enables faster communication between SSDs and a host system, and offers sharp latency decreases, which brings quality data services to customers. The OceanStor Dorado mid-range and high-end all-flash storage achieves an 0.3ms latency.

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The OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 launched leverages FlashLink technology to ensure stable performance even during peak hours. The multi-protocol interface chip supports 32Gb FC and 100GbE front-end protocols, while the firm’s Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) manages CPUs, memory, and other components in an unified manner to shorten fault recovery time from two hours to ten minutes.

The OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 with enterprise features uses global wear-leveling and the company’s patented anti-wear leveling technologies to ensure SSD reliability. Its RAID-TP technology tolerates simultaneous failures of three SSDs. The gateway-free active-active solution ensures 99.9999% availability. In addition, the Converged Data Management (CDM) solution enables cloud-enabled gateway-free DR and backup, as well as minute-level service recovery on the cloud. High service availability is ensured through multiple reliability protection technologies.

The OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 also adopts inline deduplication and compression technologies to cut the costs of energy consumption, cooling, management and maintenance, reducing overall OPEX by 65%. This allows customers to reduce costs while deploying devices in a large scale.

In addition, the OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 is compatible with more than 300 mainstream storage devices as well as 98% of IT infrastructure in the industry, without the need to change existing services. It helps achieve a smooth upgrade, simplifies O&M, and accelerates data center transformation.

William Dong, director, enterprise data center marketing and solution sales department, enterprise business group, Huawei, said: “Huawei has 17 years of R&D experience in storage technologies. We have used this extensive experience to develop the entry-level OceanStor Dorado3000 V3, enabling enterprises to benefit from an all-flash platform at a low entry point without sacrificing performance and scalability. We have leveraged all-flash storage to help customers in many industries build efficient storage capabilities and will continue to innovate to meet their ever-increasing storage requirements.“

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^[1] Gartner, Market Share, External Storage Systems, All Countries, 3Q 2018 Update

Video: Huawei OceanStor Dorado3000 V3 Launch Video for MWC 2019