History of Huawei’s All-Flash Storage

In 2005, Huawei began to research and develop flash technologies.

In 2008, Huawei released the first SATA SSD disk, marking a milestone.

In 2011, Huawei released the first generation of all-flash storage Dorado 2100 and Dorado 5100, configured with Huawei-proprietary 6 Gbit/s SAS SSD disks.

In 2012, Huawei released the second generation of all-flash storage Dorado 2100 G2.

In May 2014, Huawei released OceanStor V3 series converged flash storage, beginning an era of all-converged data architecture.

In May 2015, Huawei released its high-end converged storage system, OceanStor 18000 V3, setting a benchmark for high-end storage with superb stability, excellent performance, and future-proof innovation.

In September 2016, Huawei released all-flash storage OceanStor Dorado5000 V3 and OceanStor Dorado6000 V3, with a gateway-free, active-active storage solution and Huawei-proprietary 12 Gbit/s SAS SSD disks, providing excellent performance.

In March 2017, Huawei released the NVMe-based all-flash storage OceanStor Dorado5000 V3.

In June 2017, Huawei’s all-flash OceanStor Dorado V3 was awarded a Gold Medal at the Tokyo Interop Expo.

In September 2017, the ESG lab (a third-party authoritative organization) released an evaluation report for Huawei OceanStor Dorado, proving it is an ideal choice for mission-critical workloads.

In January 2018, an authoritative third-party report showed that the revenue growth rate of Huawei’s all-flash storage ranked first globally.

In March 2018, Huawei launched smart flash storage for enterprise mission-critical applications, including the OceanStor F V5 all-flash series and OceanStor V5 hybrid-flash series.

In March 2018, Huawei high-end all-flash storage, OceanStor 18800F V5, passed the most authoritative SPC-1 performance benchmark test in existence. In addition, it broke the performance record of OceanStor 18500 V3 with 6 million IOPS, indicating the highest performance ever recorded in SAN storage.

In October 2018, an authoritative third-party report showed that the revenue growth rate of Huawei all flash storage ranked first globally.

In October 2018, Huawei next-gen high-end all-flash storage, OceanStor Dorado18000 V3, passed the most authoritative SPC-1 performance benchmark test in existence. 7 million IOPS on condition that compression is enabled, indicating the highest performance ever recorded in SAN storage.

In May 2018, Huawei’s eight all-flash storage products were given a Recommended ranking in DCIG 2018-2019 Enterprise General Purpose All-flash Array Buyer’s Guide.