OceanStor 18500/18800 V3
Mission Critical Storage Systems
Huawei OceanStor 18500/18800 V3 mission critical storage
systems are dedicated to setting a new benchmark for the
mission critical storage field and providing the best data services
for enterprises' mission critical businesses.
OceanStor 18500/18800 V3 mission critical storage systems
With the industry-leading SmartMatrix 2.0 system architecture,
HyperMetro gateway-free active-active feature, flash-oriented
convergence technology, next-generation hardware platform,
and a full range of efficiency improvement and data protection
software, the OceanStor 18500/18800 V3 delivers worldleading reliability, performance, and solutions that meet the
storage needs of various applications such as large-scale
database OLTP/OLAP and cloud computing. Applicable to sectors
such as government, finance, telecommunications, energy,
transportation, and manufacturing, the OceanStor 18500/18800
V3 is the best choice for mission critical applications.
Product Features
Superb stability, reliability, and business continuity
Industry-leading SmartMatrix 2.0 system architecture
■■ Scale-out smooth expansion: SmartMatrix 2.0 allows for smooth and
■■ 4-controller symmetric engine: Four controllers are innovatively
linear expansion of system resources to a maximum of 16 controllers,
integrated into the 6 U space of an engine and interconnected through
16 TB cache, and 9600 disk drives, addressing the ever-increasing
a passive backplane. In addition, continuous cache mirroring and
data storage needs in the future and helping customers maximize
back-end disk controller interconnection techniques are incorporated,
return on investment (ROI).
offering industry-leading 4-controller redundancy. The four controllers
act as a hot backup for each other. Even if three controllers fail to
work, service stability is protected to maximize continuity of missioncritical applications, preventing the single-point running status that can
be seen in scenarios where traditional mission critical storage systems
are upgraded or a controller is faulty.
■■ Load balancing: Load balancing is implemented among controllers,
thereby accelerating application access and eliminating performance
bottlenecks.
■■ High-speed PCIe interconnects: PCIe 3.0 high-speed buses enable
lossless data exchange between controllers and between engines.
The data exchange bandwidth is up to 640 GB/s, providing users with
low delay, high bandwidth, and excellent stability.
OceanStor 18500/18800 V3
Mission Critical Storage Systems
A full range of reliability technologies, helping
customers protect business continuity
enterprise-level SSDs. A single storage system can be equipped with a
■■ Full hardware redundancy: All components and channels are
PB of capacity, 3,010,007 SPC-1 IOPSTM, as well as industry-leading
redundant to prevent single points of failure. Fault detection, recovery,
maximum of 16 TB cache and 9600 disk drives, providing up to 34.6
performance and specifications.
and isolation can be implemented for each component and channel
independently, ensuring stable system running.
■■ Unique rapid data restoration technology: Innovative block-level
virtualization is employed to reduce the per-TB data reconstruction
Flash-oriented system architecture design, quickly
responding to critical service requirements
time from 10 hours to 30 minutes. Compared with traditional mission
■■ Flash-oriented storage architecture: The OceanStor 18500/18800 V3
critical storage systems, the OceanStor 18500/18800 V3 reduces by
employs the flash-oriented system architecture. Based on the Flash
95% the data damage risk caused by disk failures.
technology, CPU scheduling, cache, RAID, and collaboration between
■■ DIX+PI end-to-end data protection: Based on DIX and PI, the
OceanStor OS and SSD firmware are specially designed to suit flash
OceanStor 18500/18800 V3 provides solutions to protect data
memory. The OceanStor 18500/18800 V3 can intelligently sense
integrity all the way from application systems to HBAs, storage
HDDs and SSDs, automatically distinguish between media types, and
systems, and disks. Such end-to-end data integrity protection
dynamically select the optimal algorithms to provide 1 ms of stable
solutions prevent damage to data, further protecting services.
I/O response time in the event of massive service access requests,
■■ A full range of data protection software: The Hyper series data
thereby ensuring the optimal performance of critical applications. (In
protection software suite includes snapshot, clone, integrated
the mission critical storage industry, the average I/O response time is
backup, remote replication, and active-active storage array working
about 5 to 10 ms).
mode, addressing intra-system, local, remote, and multi-region data
protection requirements.
■■ Advanced active-active solution: HyperMetro implements activeactive mirroring with load balancing and cross-site takeover without
Simplicity through convergence
service interruption, preventing data loss and system breakdown from
Powered by OceanStor OS, the OceanStor 18500/18800 V3 provides
occurring in critical application systems. The gateway-free design can
converged, flexibly scheduled, unified resource pools to enable free
effectively reduce the purchase cost, simplify the deployment, and
data flowing, helping enterprise IT architectures evolve into cloud-based
enable the active-active solution to be smoothly upgraded to the
architectures.
Disaster Recovery Data Center Solution (Geo-Redundant Mode).
■■ Convergence of SAN and NAS: SAN and NAS are converged to provide
elastic storage, improve storage resource utilization, and reduce the
total cost of ownership (TCO). Underlying storage resource pools directly
Excellent performance and
blazing-fast response
provide both block and file services, thereby shortening storage resource
access paths to ensure that the two services are equally efficient.
■■ Convergence of heterogeneous storage systems: Thanks to the
Next-generation storage hardware, providing the
optimal performance solutions in the industry
heterogeneous virtualization function, the OceanStor 18500/18800
■■ Industry-leading performance and specifications: The OceanStor
vendors and unify resource pools for central and flexible resource
18500/18800 V3 uses next-generation Intel multi-core processors
V3 can efficiently manage storage systems from other mainstream
allocation, easy data migration, and elimination of data islands.
and provides up to 256 host ports. With the next-generation PCIe 3.0
■■ Convergence of entry-level, mid-range, and high-end storage
buses and 12 Gbit/s SAS 3.0 high-speed disk ports, the OceanStor
systems: The OceanStor 18500/18800 V3 storage systems are the
18500/18800 V3 is able to provide a maximum of 640 GB/s system
only storage systems in the industry that enable entry-level, mid-
bandwidth, ensuring concurrent access to core databases at a
range, and high-end storage systems to interwork seamlessly with
low latency. The OceanStor 18500/18800 V3 supports high-speed
one another. Data can freely flow among storage products of
OceanStor 18500/18800 V3
Mission Critical Storage Systems
different models without the assistance of third-party systems.
balance between performance and cost.
■■ Convergence of SSDs and HDDs: The advantages of traditional and
■■ Convergence of primary and backup storage: The built-in backup
solid-state storage media are combined, bringing the performance of
function enables data to be efficiently backed up without additional
different types of storage media into full play and striking an optimal
backup software, simplifying backup solution management.
Technical Specifications
Model
OceanStor 18500 V3
OceanStor 18800 V3
Hardware Specifications
Max. number of controllers
16
Storage processors
Multi-core processors
Max. cache size
16 TB
Supported storage protocols
Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, InfiniBand, NFS, CIFS, HTTP, and FTP
Port types
1 Gbit/s Ethernet, 10 Gbit/s FCoE, 10 Gbit/s TOE, 8/16 Gbit/s Fibre Channel, 56 Gbit/s InfiniBand and SAS 3.0 (back-end,
4 x 12 Gbit/s per port)
Max. number of host ports
384
384
Max. number of disks
6400 (2.5-inch) or 3072 (3.5-inch)
9600 (2.5-inch) or 4608 (3.5-inch)
Supported disk types
2.5-inch: SSD and SAS
3.5-inch: SSD and NL-SAS
16 TB
Software Specifications
Max. number of hosts
65,536
Max. number of LUNs
65,536
Data protection software
HyperSnap (snapshot), HyperClone (clone), HyperCopy (copy), HyperMirror (volume mirroring), HyperReplication (remote
replication), HyperLock (WORM), HyperMetro (active-active storage arrays), HyperVault (integrated backup)
Mission-critical service protection
SmartQoS (intelligent QoS control), SmartPartition (intelligent cache partitioning), SmartCache (intelligent caching)
Resource efficiency improvement
SmartThin (intelligent thin provisioning), SmartMotion (intelligent data migration), SmartTier (intelligent storage tiering),
SmartErase (intelligent data destruction), SmartMigration (intelligent LUN migration), SmartVirtualization (intelligent
heterogeneous virtualization), SmartMulti-tenant (intelligent multi-tenant), SmartQuota (quota management), and
SmartDedupe & SmartCompression (intelligent deduplication and compression)
Storage management software
UltraPath (multipathing management), ReplicationDirector (disaster recovery management software), DeviceManager
(software to manage a single device), eSight (centralized O&M and management), Cloud Service (remote maintenance
and management)
Operating system compatibility
AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows
Support for computing virtualization
Supported virtual machines: VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V, and FushionSphere
Value-added features related to virtual environments: support for VMware VAAI and integration of VSphere and VCenter
Physical Specifications
Power supply
Dimensions/
weight
Cabinet
AC 220 V/240 V/380 V, 32 A
Dimensions (H x W x D)
Maximum bay dimensions (including external pulleys and support feet): 2000 mm x 600 mm x 1232 mm
Weight
Fully loaded system bay: 680 kg
Fully loaded disk bay: 540 kg
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