Huawei OceanStor 6800 V3

Huawei OceanStor 6800 V3

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Huawei OceanStor 6800 V3 — Product Overview & Specifications

Product Overview

The Huawei OceanStor 6800 V3 is a mission-critical, high-end unified storage system designed for the cloud era. It features a flash-oriented design and an innovative multi-controller architecture that delivers high performance with sub-1 ms latency in all-flash configurations. The system is engineered to meet the demanding requirements of large OLTP/OLAP databases, file sharing, and cloud computing workloads across industries such as government, finance, telecom, energy, and media.

Built on Huawei’s cloud-architecture-oriented operating system, the OceanStor 6800 V3 combines a high-performance hardware platform with a comprehensive suite of intelligent management software. Its scale-out architecture supports up to eight controllers, enabling linear performance scaling and massive capacity expansion to accommodate rapidly growing business needs. The system achieves 99.999% availability through redundant component design and controller hot-standby capabilities.

The OceanStor 6800 V3 excels in convergence, integrating SAN and NAS services, heterogeneous storage virtualization, high-end to entry-level interoperability, SSD and HDD tiering, and primary storage with backup functions—all within a single system. This convergence simplifies deployment, improves resource utilization, and significantly reduces total cost of ownership. Intelligent software features such as SmartTier, SmartMotion, and SmartVirtualization enable three-dimensional data flow across vertical, horizontal, and cross-system dimensions, further enhancing storage efficiency.

Product Specifications

Category Specification
Controller Architecture Dual-controller by default; scale-out to 8 controllers
System Cache 256 GB to 4,096 GB (expandable with controller count)
Maximum Drives Up to 3,200 drives (dual-controller); higher with scale-out
Maximum Storage Capacity Up to 32 PB
Supported Storage Protocols FC, FCoE, iSCSI, InfiniBand, NFS, CIFS/SMB, HTTP, FTP
Front-End Port Types 16 Gbps FC, 8 Gbps FC, 10 Gbps FCoE, 1/10 Gbps Ethernet, 56 Gbps InfiniBand
Back-End Connectivity SAS 3.0 (4 × 12 Gbps per controller)
Max Front-End Host Ports 20 per controller
Max Hot-Swappable I/O Modules 6 per controller
Disk Types SSD, SAS, NL-SAS
RAID Levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50
Performance >600,000 IOPS; sub-1 ms latency (all-flash)
Chassis Height 6U (supports 4 controllers in 6U)
Operating Temperature 5°C–40°C (below 1,800 m); 5°C–35°C (above 1,800 m)
Operating Humidity 5%–90% RH
Power Supply Redundant AC and optional DC modules
Virtualization Support VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V; VAAI and vSphere/vCenter integration
Data Protection Software HyperSnap, HyperClone, HyperCopy, HyperMirror, HyperMetro, HyperReplication, HyperLock, HyperVault
Efficiency Software SmartQoS, SmartPartition, SmartCache, SmartMigration, SmartVirtualization, SmartMulti-tenant, SmartQuota, SmartDedupe, SmartCompression, SmartThin, SmartTier, SmartMotion, SmartErase
Management Software UltraPath, BCManager, DeviceManager, eSight, Cloud Service

Reference Documentation List

The following documents and resources are available for the OceanStor 6800 V3:

Document Type Description
Product Data Sheet Official technical specifications and feature descriptions
Quick Installation Guide Step-by-step hardware installation instructions
Quick Configuration Guide Initial setup and configuration procedures
Quick Maintenance Guide Routine maintenance and troubleshooting guidance
SPC-1 Benchmark Report Official SPC-1 performance results submission
Standards Compliance Document Energy-related product information and certifications
Product Bulletins Technical notices and updates

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