Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage

Guli Kamal

Huawei OceanStor Dorado: All-Flash Storage Built for Modern Business

As businesses generate more data and depend increasingly on digital applications, storage is no
longer simply about capacity. Organizations need infrastructure that can deliver speed, availability,
scalability, intelligent management, and data protection without making their IT environment
unnecessarily complex.
Huawei’s OceanStor Dorado family is designed around these requirements, providing all-flash storage
options for organizations ranging from growing businesses to enterprises running mission-critical
workloads.

Understanding the OceanStor Dorado Family

Huawei offers OceanStor Dorado systems for different business sizes and workload requirements. Its
current portfolio ranges from systems such as the OceanStor Dorado 3000, designed around strong
price-performance, to the OceanStor Dorado 5000/6000 for medium and large enterprises and the
high-end OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 for demanding mission-critical environments. This allows
organizations to select their storage infrastructure according to factors such as workload, required
performance, availability, connectivity, and future growth, rather than taking a one-size-fits-all
approach.
At the foundation of the portfolio is Huawei’s all-flash architecture and technologies such as
FlashLink® intelligent algorithms, designed to improve the performance and efficiency of flash storage.

Spotlight: Huawei OceanStor Dorado 2000

For organizations looking for a practical entry point into all-flash storage, the OceanStor Dorado 2000
offers an especially interesting balance between performance, scalability, and simplified management.
Huawei positions the Dorado 2000 as an entry-level system within the OceanStor Dorado all-flash
family, particularly suited to small and medium-sized businesses, virtualization, office applications,
and branch environments

What does the Dorado 2000 offer?

High-performance all-flash storage
The Dorado 2000 is built entirely around SSD storage and uses Huawei's FlashLink algorithms to
optimize how data is processed, cached and written. Its intelligent SSD design is intended to
accelerate data access and reduce write latency.
Room to grow
Businesses do not necessarily need to replace their storage infrastructure as requirements increase.
The Dorado 2000 can scale to 8 controllers and up to 400 SSDs, with SSD options ranging from 960
GB to 15.36 TB in the referenced configuration.
Flexible connectivity
The system supports FC and iSCSI, with FC interfaces up to 32 Gbit/s and Ethernet options including
1/10/25 GbE, making it suitable for common SAN environments.
Intelligent management
Huawei integrates predictive capabilities across the storage lifecycle. The system provides 365-day
capacity trend prediction, 60-day performance bottleneck prediction, and 14-day disk fault
prediction, helping IT teams identify potential issues before they become disruptive.
Simplified operations
Storage management does not have to mean additional operational complexity. Huawei states that
the Dorado 2000 can complete system configuration in three steps, with resources ready in
approximately five minutes. Its active-active architecture also supports load balancing and nondisruptive upgrades.

Finding the Right Storage for Your Business

Not every organization requires the same level of storage performance or capacity. A growing company
running virtualized workloads may have very different requirements from a large enterprise operating
business-critical databases across multiple locations.
That is where choosing the right OceanStor Dorado configuration becomes important.
At Avesta Company, we help organizations assess their storage requirements and identify infrastructure
that fits their workloads, performance expectations, growth plans and IT environment. Whether you are
moving from traditional disk storage to all-flash or expanding an existing infrastructure, Huawei OceanStor
Dorado provides a scalable path toward faster and more intelligent enterprise storage.