Huawei OceanStor Dorado 6000 V3

OceanStor Dorado 6000 V3

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Huawei OceanStor Dorado 6000 V3 Product Documentation

Product Overview

The Huawei OceanStor Dorado 6000 V3 is a high-end, all-flash storage system purpose-built for mission-critical enterprise services . As part of Huawei’s fourth-generation all-flash array family, it is designed to fully leverage SSD media to deliver exceptional performance with sub-millisecond latency, while maintaining consistent responsiveness even when data reduction features are enabled .

The system employs a native flash-optimized architecture with intelligent multi-core processors and proprietary FlashLink® technology. This enables the Dorado 6000 V3 to achieve up to 4 million IOPS with a consistent latency of approximately 500 microseconds (0.5 ms) . In SPC-1 benchmark testing, the system demonstrated 1,000,560 SPC-1 IOPS™ with an overall response time of 0.380 ms, showcasing its industry-leading performance capabilities .

The Dorado 6000 V3 features a grid-based, scale-out architecture supporting up to 16 controllers in an active-active configuration with fully redundant design. This architecture, combined with the HyperMetro gateway-free active-active solution, delivers 99.9999% availability and enables seamless upgrades to two-data-center-three-site disaster recovery configurations .

For capacity optimization, the system incorporates inline deduplication and compression technologies (SmartDedupe and SmartCompression), delivering up to 5:1 data reduction rates and reducing OPEX by up to 75% . The array supports both SAN and NAS protocols within a unified storage framework, making it suitable for diverse enterprise workloads including databases, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), virtual server environments (VSI), and SAP HANA deployments .

The Dorado 6000 V3 is backed by Huawei’s extensive storage R&D heritage, with the company developing its own SSDs to ensure deep integration between hardware and firmware for optimal performance and reliability .


Product Specifications

Category Specification
Model Huawei OceanStor Dorado 6000 V3 
Product Type Enterprise All-Flash Storage Array (SAN/NAS Unified Storage) 

Controller & Processing

Category Specification
Maximum Controllers Up to 16 controllers in active-active scale-out architecture 
Storage Processors Multi-core processors 
System Cache (per system) 1,024 GB to 8,192 GB (1 TB – 8 TB) 

Connectivity & Protocols

Category Specification
Supported Storage Protocols FC, iSCSI, InfiniBand, HTTP, FTP 
Front-end Port Types 8 Gbps/16 Gbps Fibre Channel, 10GE iSCSI, 56 Gbps InfiniBand 
Back-end Port Types SAS 3.0 (single port 4 x 12 Gbps); PCIe 3.0 (two ports 8 x 8 Gbps) 
Maximum Front-end Ports (per controller) 28 ports 

Storage Capacity

Category Specification
Maximum SSDs Up to 2,400 SAS SSDs 
SSD Types 600 GB / 900 GB / 1.8 TB / 3.6 TB / 7.68 TB SAS SSD (2.5″) 
Maximum Hosts Supported 8,192 
Maximum LUNs 16,384 

Data Protection & RAID

Category Specification
RAID Support RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID-TP (Triple Parity – tolerates up to 3 concurrent disk failures) 

Software & Management

Category Specification
Value-added Software SmartDedupe (inline deduplication), SmartCompression (inline compression), SmartVirtualization, SmartMigration, SmartThin (thin provisioning), HyperReplication (remote replication), HyperSnap (snapshots), HyperMetro (array active-active) 
Storage Management Software DeviceManager, UltraPath (multipathing), eService (remote maintenance management) 
Virtualization Support Huawei FusionSphere, VMware (VAAI/VASA/SRM), XenServer, Hyper-V; integration with vSphere and vCenter 
Supported Operating Systems AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, Windows 

Physical Specifications

Category Specification
Controller Enclosure Dimensions 130.5 × 447 × 750 mm (3U) 
Disk Enclosure Dimensions 86.1 × 447 × 488 mm (2U) 
Controller Enclosure Weight ≤ 50 kg 
Disk Enclosure Weight ≤ 20 kg 

Power & Environmental

Category Specification
Power Supply AC 200-240V; DC 192-288V or -48-(-60)V 
Typical Power Consumption (Controller) 936 W 
Typical Power Consumption (Disk Enclosure) 240 W 
Operating Temperature (Altitude < 1,800 m) 5°C to 40°C 
Operating Temperature (Altitude 1,800-3,000 m) 5°C to 35°C 
Operating Humidity 5% to 95% RH (non-condensing) 

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