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Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000 and 18000 All-Flash Storage Systems Data Sheet

Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000 and 18000 All-Flash Storage Systems Data Sheet

Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000 and 18000 All-Flash Storage Systems Data Sheet

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Overview: The OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 are high-end all-flash storage systems designed for critical enterprise applications, offering exceptional performance and reliability. They feature innovative hardware, FlashLink® intelligent algorithms, and a full-series E2E NVMe architecture, achieving a latency of 0.05 ms and 21,000,000 SPC-1 IOPS, nearly double the performance of competitors.
Key Specifications:
  • Maximum IOPS: 21,000,000
  • Latency: 0.05 ms
  • Maximum Number of Controllers: 32
  • Maximum Cache: 512 GB-32 TB
  • Supported Protocols: FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS
  • Maximum Number of SSDs: 6,400
Innovative Hardware: The systems use an intelligent multi-protocol interface module to enhance front-end access performance by 20% and a computing platform with 25% higher computing power than the industry average. Intelligent accelerator modules improve read cache hit ratios by 50%.
Reliability: The systems offer 5-layer reliability, including component, architecture, product, solution, and cloud reliability. They ensure zero data loss in the event of multiple failures and provide a gateway-free active-active solution for SAN and NAS.
Intelligent Management: The systems feature intelligent management for resource planning, provisioning, system tuning, risk prediction, and fault location. They provide predictions for performance bottlenecks and disk faults and offer immediate solutions for 93% of detected problems.
Efficient O&M: The systems support on and off-cloud synergy, combining general-purpose cloud intelligence with customized edge intelligence. They offer extreme convergence for SAN and NAS services, reducing IT construction costs and improving performance.
Technical Specifications: The systems support RAID levels 5, 6, 10, and RAID-TP, with a maximum of 65,536 LUNs. They include value-added features such as SmartDedupe, SmartCompression, and HyperMetro.
Physical Specifications:
  • Models: OceanStor Dorado 8000 and OceanStor Dorado 18000.
  • Controller enclosure dimensions: 175 mm × 447 mm × 865 mm.
  • Weight: Controller enclosure ≤ 90 kg, SAS SSD enclosure ≤ 20 kg, Smart SAS SSD enclosure ≤ 30 kg, Smart NVMe SSD enclosure ≤ 35 kg, System bay ≤ 700 kg, Disk bay ≤ 600 kg.
  • Operating Temperature: 5°C to 35°C (bay) or 40°C (enclosure) for altitudes –60 m to +1800 m. Above 1800 m, the max. temperature decreases by 1°C for every 220 m increase in altitude.
  • Operating Humidity: 10% RH to 90% RH.
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  • Disclaimer: The manual is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind.
  • Contact: Tel: +86-755-28780808, Website: http://e.huawei.com
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Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000 and 18000 All-Flash Storage Systems Data Sheet-1

Data Sheet OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 High-End All-Flash Storage Systems OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 High-End All-Flash Storage Systems Leading Performance with Innovative Hardware 21,000,000 SPC-1 IOPS E2E NVMe for 0.05 ms of ultra-low latency FlashLink® intelligent algorithms SCM intelligent cache acceleration for 60% lower latency Distributed file system with 30% higher performance Always-On Applications with 5Layer Reliability Component reliability: Wear leveling and anti-wear leveling Architecture and product reliability: 0 data loss in the event of single, dual, and multiple failures (7/8 controllers, 3/4 controllers, or disk enclosures), as well as three disk failures Solution and cloud reliability: The industry's only A-A solution for SAN and NAS, geo-redundant 3DC solution, and gateway-free cloud backup Efficient O&M with Intelligent Edge-Cloud Synergy 3-layer intelligent management: • 14-day disk fault prediction Excelling in scenarios such as databases and virtualization, OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 high-end all-flash storage systems are best suited to the carrier, finance, government, manufacturing, and other fields. Product Features Ever Fast Performance with Innovative Hardware Innovative hardware platform: Huawei storage uses an innovative hardware platform for E2E data acceleration, delivering the proven 21,000,000 SPC-1 IOPS, almost twice that of the second player.  The intelligent multi-protocol interface module hosts the protocol parsing previously performed by the generalpurpose CPU, expediting the front-end access performance by 20%. The computing platform offers industry-leading performance with 25% higher computing power than the industry average. The intelligent accelerator module analyzes and understands I/O rules of multiple application models based on machine learning frameworks to implement intelligent prefetching of memory space. This improves the read cache hit ratio by 50%. 365-day capacity trends prediction OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 high-end all-flash storage systems set new benchmarks of storage performance and reliability for critical business of enterprises, providing excellent data service experience. The storage systems leverage innovative hardware platform, FlashLink® intelligent algorithms, and full-series E2E NVMe architecture, to deliver the latency of 0.05 ms and the proven 21,000,000 SPC-1 IOPS, with performance almost twice that of the next-best player in the industry. Their full-mesh SmartMatrix architecture ensures always-on services. Intelligent and elastic architecture supports online hardware update of three generations for 10 years without any migration. Solutions immediately provided for 93% of problems SAN&NAS convergence, storage and computing convergence, and cross-gen device convergence for efficient resource utilization FlashEver: No data migration over 10 years for 3-gen hardware systems

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Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000 and 18000 All-Flash Storage Systems Data Sheet-2

Data Sheet OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 High-End All-Flash Storage Systems  SmartCache + SCM intelligent multi-tier caching identify whether or not the data is hot and uses different media to store it, reducing the latency by 60% in OLTP (100% reads) scenarios. The intelligent SSD hosts the core Flash Translation Layer (FTL) algorithm, accelerating data access in SSDs and shortening the write latency by half. The intelligent hardware has a built-in Huawei storage fault library that accelerates component fault location and diagnosis, and shortens the fault recovery time from 2 hours to just 10...

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Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000 and 18000 All-Flash Storage Systems Data Sheet-3

Data Sheet OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 High-End All-Flash Storage Systems future-proof architecture that implements direct communication between the CPU and SSDs, shortening the transmission path. In addition, the quantity of concurrencies is increased by 65,536 times, and the protocol interaction is reduced from four times to two, which doubles the write request processing. Huawei is a pioneer in adopting end-to-end NVMe architecture across the entire series. OceanStor Dorado all-flash systems use the industry-leading 32 Gb FC-NVMe/100 Gb RoCE protocols at the front end and adopt Huaweideveloped...

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Data Sheet OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 High-End All-Flash Storage Systems technology prevents simultaneous multi-SSD failures and improves the reliability of the entire system. Architecture – fully interconnected design: Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 use full-interconnection design at front and back-ends and intelligent multi-protocol interface modules to build the SmartMatrix architecture with ultra-high reliability. High-speed interconnection of multiple controllers is supported via the 100 Gb/s RDMA protocol, and the unique full-interconnection design tolerates failures for 3 out of 4...

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Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000 and 18000 All-Flash Storage Systems Data Sheet-5

Data Sheet OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 High-End All-Flash Storage Systems RoCE transmission to improve performance by 50% compared with traditional IP solutions. In addition, the solution can be smoothly upgraded to the geo-redundant 3DC solution for high-level data protection. Cloud – gateway-free cloud DR*: Traditional backup solutions are slow, expensive, and the backup data cannot be directly used. Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 high-end all-flash systems provide a converged data management solution. It improves the backup frequency 30-fold using industry-leading I/O-level backup technology,...

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Data Sheet OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 High-End All-Flash Storage Systems Technical Specifications Model Hardware Specifications Maximum Number of Controllers Maximum Cache (Dual Controllers, Expanding with the Number of Controllers) Supported Storage Protocols Front-End Port Types 8/16/32 Gbit/s FC/FC-NVMe*, 10/25/40/100 GbE, 25 Gb NVMe over RoCE* Back-End Port Types Maximum Number of HotSwappable I/O Modules per Controller Enclosure Maximum Number of FrontEnd Ports per Controller Enclosure Maximum Number of SSDs Software Specifications Supported RAID Levels RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10*, and RAID-TP...

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Data Sheet OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 High-End All-Flash Storage Systems Technical Specifications Model Physical Specifications Dimensions (H x W x D) Controller enclosure: 175 mm × 447 mm × 865 mm SAS SSD enclosure: 86.1 mm × 447 mm × 410 mm Smart SAS SSD enclosure: 86.1 mm x 447 mm x 520 mm Smart NVMe SSD enclosure: 86.1 mm x 447 mm x 620 mm Controller enclosure: ≤ 90 kg SAS SSD enclosure: ≤ 20 kg Smart SAS SSD enclosure: ≤ 30 kg Smart NVMe SSD enclosure: ≤ 35 kg Operating Temperature –60 m to +1800 m altitude: 5°C to 35°C (bay) or 40°C (enclosure) 1800 m to 3000 m altitude: The max. temperature...

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