OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage

Huawei Dorado all-flash storage offers high flexibility and can meet our diverse needs on a single device. It supports both SAN and NAS configurations and can also be used for our backup systems, providing us with a variety of options. In addition, the Huawei team conducted a performance analysis of our existing equipment and provided some key recommendations. For example, HDDs have higher failture rates and lower performance compared to SSDs, and utilization rate of some mid-range devices has already reached its maximum capacity, which clearly does not match the requirements of our bank's digital transformation.Based on this, Huawei proposed a unified consolidation solution.First, we upgraded to all-SSD storage.This not only doubled the performance but also improved operational efficiency by three times after consolidation.Second, we upgraded mid-range devices to high-end ones.The upgrade in hardware specifications,such as controllers,significantly enhanced system reliability, achieving 99.99999% reliability, which means that the system downtime is less than 3 seconds per year. In addition, the Huawei team also developed a good plan for reusing our old equipment.Third, we implemented SAN ransomware protection. The new version provides SAN ransomware protection capabilities, with a detection rate of 99.99%, which greatly enhances the security of our banking system.Therefore, we decided to migrate our existing storage system to Huawei Dorado all-flash high-end storage.

I am the head of the IT team at a retail company. With the rapid growth of our retail business, our existing storage systems were under significant pressure in terms of performance, reliability and data protection.Our core requirements were to ensure 7*24 business continuity and zero data loss. After evaluating multiple vendors, Huawei's solution stood out to us.They offered not just hardware upgrades but a comprehensive, future-oriented strategy.What truly impressed our management was the disruptive value brought by Huawei's OceanStor Dorado all-flash series.Firstly, it provided more than twice the performance of competitors while occupying only one-third of the space, which significantly reduced our TCO. Secondly, in a remote test of our critical Oracle business system, Huawei delivered an almost perfect solution with zero RPO and zero RTO, meaning theoretically, our business could operate without interruption and with zero data loss, achieving a reliability of 99.9999%. This fully meets our extreme requirements for business continuity and data protection. Thirdly, after actual deployment, the superiority of Huawei's solution was fully validated. Its SAN&NAS converged design and end-to-end converged data management not only simplified our architecture, but also provided "double insurance" for our data through active-active remote disaster recovery. Finally, the response speed and professional support from Huawei's team were impressive. From providing detailed solutions to completing POC testing, the efficiency was extremely high, making us deeply feel their customer-centric service philosophy.

As an IT engineer, I am more concerned about the performance, ease of operation and maintenance, and reliability of storage devices, so that we can provide better support for application teams. Currently, our storage devices are scattered and lack sufficient security protection measures. After communication with Huawei engineers, we identified potential future performance bottlenecks through the intelligent O&M platform DME.Therefore,Huawei's service team conducted a detailed health check and provided a storage consolidation solution that aligns with our bank's storage evolution strategy. First, we improved performance by integrating existing devices with Dorado 8000, achieving a transition to a 100% all-flash production storage environment. Second, we enhanced operating efficiency. Previously, the scattered devices made management complex and it took at least several weeks to upgrade a single version. After consolidation, the number of devices was reduced by nearly 80% and management efficiency improved fourfold. Third, we improved reliability. Dorado 8000 has four controllers, which greatly enhances reliability. Finally, we added SAN ransomware protection during this consolidation to address increasingly severe security threats. Through this consolidation, we have simplified storage management, improved predictive maintenance capabilities and enhanced operation efficiency, which has also reduced my workload.

We purchased Dorado 5000 V6 in Active-Active NAS Disaster Recovery as our Serverless Branch NAS File repository for our 1500+ branches. Huawei provided exceptional support in implementing the Active-Active DR Solution as well as finding a solution in integrating the Dorado 5000 V6 to our existing network architecture. We also purchased the Dorado 6000 V6 for our VMWare workloads in Active-Active SAN Disaster Recovery with seamless integration. Huawei post-sales team has a fast response whenever we encounter issues with our Dorado storage whether it is hardware or software related issues.

This all flash storage product is an outstanding centralized storage solution that exceeds enterprise expectations in performance, reliability and versatility. It seamlessly supports our core business scenarios with innovative technology and comprehensive features of enterprise data storage.