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Huawei OceanStor Dorado 18000
High-end · all-flash · multi-controller - High-end converged all-flash array with SmartMatrix full-mesh architecture for mission-critical databases and virtualization.
| Platform | |
|---|---|
| OEM | Huawei |
| Family | OceanStor Dorado |
| Class | High-end |
| Architecture | Multi-controller |
| Status | Current |
| Released | n/a |
| Operating system | OceanStor Dorado V700R001C20 |
| Controllers | 128 |
| Nodes | n/a |
| Cache / memory | 6,144 GB |
| Availability | 99.999999% |
| Capacity and media | |
| Media | All-flash |
| Drive types | NVMe SSD |
| Drive note | NVMe SSDs and NVMe SEDs |
| Flash drive sizes | 3.84, 7.68, 15.36, 30.72 TB |
| HDD sizes | n/a |
| Maximum drives | 1600 |
| Controller enclosure | 4U |
| Expansion | Smart NVMe disk enclosure (2 U, 36 slots) over 100 Gb RDMA back end - 36 bays, 2U |
| Raw capacity | n/a |
| Cluster maximum | n/a |
| Effective maximum | 27.02 PB |
| Data reduction | Eligible for Huawei OceanStor All-Flash Data Reduction Guarantee; ratio agreed at purchase (no fixed ratio published) |
| Protection | RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID-TP, cross-enclosure RAID |
| Protection note | RAID 2.0+; RAID 10 and cross-enclosure RAID marked 'contact sales'; tolerates failure of 7 of 8 controller enclosures (SmartMatrix) |
| Performance and connectivity | |
| Maximum IOPS | 100,000,000 |
| Maximum throughput | n/a |
| Latency | 30 µs |
| Conditions | Max controllers 128 marked 'contact sales'. Cache (6 TB at 1 TB = 1024 GB), drive count and effective capacity (24 PiB = 27021.6 TB) are per controller enclosure (4 U, 4 controllers, disk-controller separated, 28 I/O module slots). IOPS (>100 million, SPC-1 model per white paper) and 0.03 ms latency are series claims on the Dorado 8000/18000 product page, not broken out per model. Max 96 front-end ports per product page. |
| Protocols | Fibre Channel, NVMe over FC, iSCSI, NVMe over RoCE, NVMe over TCP, NFS, SMB / CIFS, S3 object |
| Fibre Channel | 64 Gb |
| Ethernet | 100 GbE |
| Host ports | 96 |
| Limits | |
| Volumes / LUNs | n/a |
| File systems | n/a |
| Snapshots | n/a |
| Management and support | |
| Management | DeviceManager, UltraPath, NFS+, DME, DME IQ, OceanStor BCManager |
| Power | n/a |
| Positioned for | Databases, Virtualization, Mission-critical |
| Warranty | n/a |
| Design terms | Storage pool · LUN · Host group (mapping view) · HyperReplication (asynchronous) |
| Data services | |
✓ Deduplication
✓ Compression
✓ Thin provisioning
✓ Snapshots
✓ Clones
✓ Asynchronous replication
✓ Synchronous replication
✓ Active-active / metro
✓ Encryption at rest
✓ Immutable snapshots
✓ Ransomware detection
✓ Quality of service
? Automated tiering
✓ Cloud tiering
? VMware vVols
✓ Kubernetes CSI
✓ Native file services
✓ Native object (S3)
✓ Non-disruptive upgrades
✓ Scale-out
✓ stated by the OEM · ✕ not offered · ? not stated | |
| Source | |
| Product page | https://e.huawei.com/en/products/storage/all-flash-storage/dorado-8000-18000 |
| Datasheet | https://e-file.huawei.com/marketingcloud/pep/asset/20000001/Material/d2e113a4a0f446e5bd48f0043215b6bb/M3T1A590N1254468226822983710/New-Gen%20OceanStor%20Dorado%20Converged%20All-Flash%20Storage%20Systems-Data%20Sheet-2026H1.pdf |