Huawei OceanStor 18500 V3 — Product Documentation List, Overview, and Specifications

1. Product Documentation List

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2. Product Overview

The Huawei OceanStor 18500 V3 is a high-end enterprise storage system designed for mission-critical workloads. It is part of the OceanStor 18000 V3 series, which sets a benchmark for reliability, performance, and cloud-ready convergence in enterprise storage .

Positioning and Target Applications

The OceanStor 18500 V3 is engineered for large-scale OLTP and OLAP database applications, cloud computing environments, and other data-intensive mission-critical workloads. It is widely deployed across government, finance, telecommunications, energy, transportation, and manufacturing industries . The system delivers 99.9999% solution availability, making it suitable for enterprises that cannot tolerate service interruption .

Architecture and Reliability

At the core of the OceanStor 18500 V3 is the exclusive SmartMatrix 2.0 system architecture. This architecture can tolerate dual points of failure and supports gateway-less Active-Active deployment for both SAN and NAS environments. The system scales from 2 to 16 controllers, with each controller functioning as an active node in the cluster. Even in the event of multiple controller failures, business operations can continue without interruption .

Performance

The OceanStor 18500 V3 delivers industry-leading performance. In an SPC-1 benchmark submission, a 16-controller configuration achieved 2,340,241 SPC-1 IOPS™ with an overall response time of 0.537 ms . Under full-flash configurations, the system achieves up to 3 million SPC-1 IOPS™ with sub-1 ms latency, enabling responsive performance for the most demanding enterprise applications .

Scalability and Convergence

The system supports up to 16 TB of cache and scales to 6,400 2.5-inch drives or 3,072 3.5-inch drives in the 18500 V3 configuration . It converges SAN and NAS protocols, backup, and heterogeneous virtualization into a single platform, supporting smooth evolution toward future cloud-based data center architectures .

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3. Technical Specifications