New-Gen OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000
Meet the demands of mission-critical enterprise applications with Huawei's New-Gen OceanStor Dorado 8000 and 18000 converged all-flash storage systems. Engineered for the AI era, this product family delivers unparalleled performance, reaching up to 100 million IOPS with latency as low as 0.03 milliseconds, ensuring your most demanding workloads run without compromise.
At the core of the OceanStor Dorado series is an unwavering commitment to reliability. Built on the innovative SmartMatrix full-mesh architecture, these systems provide an industry-leading 99.999999% availability, designed to tolerate the failure of any single component, enclosure, or even an entire cabinet. This level of resilience, combined with comprehensive data protection and ransomware defense, makes the Dorado 8000/18000 a definitive choice for safeguarding your most valuable data assets while ensuring continuous service availability.
The New-Gen OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 family redefines high-end storage through advanced hardware and intelligent software. The FlashLink® 3.0 intelligent algorithm optimizes data and control flows, boosting performance by over 50% compared to the previous generation. This ensures that latency-sensitive applications like databases and large-scale virtualization platforms operate at peak efficiency. The converged architecture unifies SAN, NAS, and S3 object storage, providing seamless data access across a vast range of protocols, including FC-NVMe, NVMe over RoCE, and NFS over RDMA.
While both models share this powerful foundation, they are differentiated by their immense scalability to meet diverse enterprise needs. The OceanStor Dorado 8000 supports up to 64 controllers and 1–4 TB of cache per controller enclosure, making it ideal for large-scale enterprise environments. For the most demanding data center requirements, the OceanStor Dorado 18000 scales up to 128 controllers with 2–6 TB of cache per controller enclosure, providing massive performance and capacity for core business services across any industry.
Selecting and architecting a high-end storage solution like the Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 is a critical decision. Success depends on a precise alignment of the platform's capabilities with your specific performance, availability, and data protection requirements. NEXUS ITX facilitates this complex evaluation process, providing the technical insights needed to make a confident, informed choice.
We help organizations analyze their workloads and long-term objectives to determine the most effective storage strategy. By focusing on your unique technical and business needs, we help ensure your chosen solution delivers maximum value from day one.
Q: What is the primary difference between the New-Gen OceanStor Dorado 8000 and 18000 models?
A: The main difference is scalability. The Dorado 8000 supports a maximum of 64 controllers and 1–4 TB of cache per controller enclosure, while the higher-end Dorado 18000 scales to a maximum of 128 controllers and 2–6 TB of cache per controller enclosure, targeting the most demanding data center environments.
Q: What is the SmartMatrix architecture?
A: SmartMatrix is a full-mesh back-end architecture that interconnects all controllers in the system. It is designed for extreme reliability, allowing the system to tolerate the failure of any single component, disk enclosure, or even an entire cabinet while maintaining service continuity, achieving up to 99.999999% availability.
Q: How does this storage system protect against ransomware?
A: It features built-in block and file ransomware detection capabilities. This is part of Huawei's comprehensive Multilayer Ransomware Protection (MRP) solution, which provides six layers of protection. The solution's effectiveness is certified by The Tolly Group for achieving a 100% ransomware detection rate.
Q: Can the OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 handle both block and file storage simultaneously?
A: Yes. It is a converged all-flash storage system that natively supports both block (FC, iSCSI, FC-NVMe) and file (NFS, SMB) protocols, as well as S3 for object storage. This allows organizations to consolidate diverse workloads onto a single platform.
Q: What disaster recovery options are supported?
A: The product family supports advanced disaster recovery solutions, including active-active configurations and geo-redundant 3 Data Center (3DC) and 4 Data Center (4DC) setups. These solutions are designed to ensure continuous 24/7 service availability for mission-critical applications.
Q: Which NVMe SSDs are supported by the system?
A: Both the Dorado 8000 and 18000 support high-capacity NVMe SSDs in 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, 15.36 TB, and 30.72 TB sizes. They also support NVMe Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) for enhanced data security.
Contact Nexus ITX to discuss your technical requirements and align the Dorado 8000/18000's capabilities with your mission-critical workloads.
