We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and Huawei OceanStor Dorado based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."
"The initial setup was extremely simple and straightforward."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"All of the capabilities of the hardware such as replication, snapshot, and the specific features are all included from the start as opposed to being on another license."
"Primera's main advantage is its support for NVM drives and normal flash drives. It has some sort of AI analysis that automatically tells us how to optimize the performance."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to provide the IOPS ratio which is required by a lot of our customers."
"The performance is very good."
"The product is stable."
"The most valuable feature of HP Primera is that you don't have to buy an additional product for application replication. It's a stable product. The tool is scalable. I recommend HPE Primera because it's one of HP's most stable product."
"Our customers have given very positive feedback about InfoSign, which is the management software for this solution."
"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."
"Most of the features which all enterprises storages solutions have are available in Huawei OceanStor Dorado."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment takes about a day."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"The product offers good performance."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We can use Huawei OceanStor Dorado capacity storage for many different purposes."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"The software layer has to improve."
"We need better data deduplication."
"Right now, the box itself is just strictly working as a backend storage system. It would be fantastic if we could access it directly like a NAS device through network access or SIS drives. I think they have an interface, but I am not sure how good it is. If we could address a box directly on the network without having to go through a server, it would be great. The replication schemas could be improved. We are not using replication on the storage level right now. We use a different type of replication. If their replication would be as good as the one that we have, I would probably run the replication schema because it might be faster, but I don't know that for a fact. So, I cannot say that they have good replication. All I can say is that they need to inform us better."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"We've encountered issues in the past where maintaining a read-only state is essential to prevent data encryption when VPN access is impacted."
"The file server embedded in Pure, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage."
"Like most storage, we want to see flash become more and more stable. Like any flash that uses MLC or TLC techniques, over time, the more writes you have, the less usable the storage becomes. They try to plan for this and have a lot of extra space in the arrays, but over time, their performance does degrade. This is true for any flash storage."
"I would like to see improved training offered with HPE Primera."
"This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market."
"The solution could improve by having seamless migration from other storage systems. The process should be made easier."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly in that sense that installation and management are still a bit on the high end."
"Price is always important in Turkey, so HPE could lower the price to keep it competitive. It's not as competitive as other solutions in this market."
"The product could always be faster."
"I would like to see them improve their IOPS per second to match their contemporaries in the industry."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"The built-in reporting tools need some enhancement."
"The speeds of the disks themselves need to be faster. The disks are not flash. When we opened our hard drive from the inclusion, I saw a converter, and it's not entirely flash."
"This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and HPE Alletra, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and HPE Nimble Storage. See our HPE Primera vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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