Huawei Dorado for Irshad Telecom: from design to acceptance

An all-flash platform for business data

SOFCONS engineers delivered Huawei Dorado 3000 V6 for Irshad Telecom in four in-house phases: design, hardware installation and initial setup, Dorado configuration, and acceptance and performance testing.

Architecture built for speed and resilience

The solution is built on Huawei OceanStor Dorado 3000 V6 with two controllers and 128 GB of cache. Six NVMe SSDs provide 46.08 TB of raw capacity. Connectivity over 32Gb Fibre Channel connects the platform to the enterprise SAN environment.

NVMe architecture and Huawei FlashLink algorithms work together to accelerate data access. Huawei specifies latency as low as 0.05 ms for the Dorado 3000 V6 platform. This technology is valuable for virtualization, databases and applications with intensive storage activity.

• Active-active: both controllers participate in serving data.
• NVMe all-flash: an entirely SSD-based storage platform.
• Fibre Channel: integration with enterprise server infrastructure.

Planning & Design

SOFCONS engineers designed the storage solution around application requirements, hardware configuration and server connectivity. Usable capacity, growth headroom, redundant data paths and acceptance criteria guided the design.

• Workloads: capacity, IOPS, latency and the read/write profile.
• Integration: servers, SAN and redundant connections.
• Operation: support and expansion options.

Hardware Installation & Initial Configuration

SOFCONS engineers installed the hardware and completed initial configuration in-house. The work brought together system preparation, connection checks and management setup.

Power, cooling and component health checks provide the foundation for storage configuration. Management settings and access permissions establish the environment for day-to-day administration.

• Configuration checks: controllers, drives, interface modules and cabling.
• Management environment: network parameters, access permissions and system time.
• Initial diagnostics: component health, events and alerts.

Dorado 3000 Configuration

SOFCONS specialists configured the Dorado 3000. The work focused on capacity allocation, presenting storage resources to servers and setting up data services.

The platform’s thin provisioning, snapshots, cloning and QoS capabilities support flexible capacity allocation, point-in-time data copies and workload priorities.

• Storage resources: pools, LUNs and capacity allocation.
• Host access: compatibility, LUN mapping and multipathing principles.
• Data services: storage efficiency and monitoring.

Acceptance & Performance Testing

SOFCONS specialists performed acceptance and performance testing of the configured system in-house. Checks covered data access, read/write operations and behaviour under load.

• Functional acceptance: resource visibility, access and correct read/write operation.
• Performance: IOPS, latency and throughput in the context of the workload profile.
• Operational readiness: system health, events and agreed acceptance criteria.

More data within the same SSD footprint

SmartDedupe and SmartCompression improve storage economics by removing repeated blocks and storing unique data more compactly. Applications continue to work with their data while the array uses physical space more efficiently.

Huawei advertises a 3:1 data-reduction ratio for Dorado 3000 V6. This is a vendor figure; results in a specific deployment depend on data repetition and compressibility. Repeated virtual-machine images and compressible enterprise data can make more efficient use of physical capacity.

• More efficient capacity use as data grows.
• Greater flexibility in planning additional SSD purchases.
• Less data written to physical media.

Support and vendor context

The project includes 36 months of hardware and software support. SOFCONS managed engineering and supply within the same engagement.

Huawei is positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms. The Dorado platform selected for Irshad is part of this vendor’s enterprise storage portfolio.