Huawei OceanStor Dorado Reviews

We are using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for Hyper Metro and under Datacore products and some Sunpro products.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado is fast and has significantly improved data storage efficiency.

We use Huawei OceanStor Dorado for our stack. Dorado storage administration facilitates tasks such as deploying and automating migrations and applications, securing snapshots, and utilizing hyper CDP properties. It also provides line support from Broadband SN to back up data from storage tools. Additionally, we use it for domains like EMC and Partridge Systems.

Huawei includes features for file servers and file services. It offers ransomware protection for files stored on servers. However, it does not support blocking websites.

Our company mainly works with large enterprises such as banks, and Huawei OceanStor Dorado is part of our storage services. Our company uses the product's version 8000. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is used for data migration and storage in banks and other industries like telecom and healthcare. 

Customers utilize the solution in data center operations by storing the main workloads, applications, production storage, block storage, pilot storage, and storage objects. Huawei OceanStor Dorado also assists users in core applications, satellite applications, business analytics tools, dashboards, BI, and AI-enabled features to get the desired results.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado is equipped with powerful controllers. The solution can handle more than 6.4 million IOPS. Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers great scalability. It can manage multiple protocols, like NAS protocol, SAN protocol and object storage protocol. The product is optimized for high-performance computing along with AI capabilities. 

The most valuable features of the solution are SmartMigration, HyperReplication, HyperSnap, HyperCopy, HyperClone, SmartPartition, and SmartCache.

We are using the solution for some banking customers in India, which requires high IOPS (input/output operations per second) and performance, low latency, and good redundancy. They use the solution's OLTP for daily transactions. The solution is working with high redundancy, high availability, and reliability.

Other Huawei mid-end storages, like 5600 and 5500, are very easy to use. Engineers with two to three years of experience with Huawei will find that Huawei OceanStor Dorado is a bit complicated to use compared to other Huawei storages. Unlike other storages, you cannot configure the disk domain and storage pool in Huawei OceanStor Dorado.

The product offers good performance. The functionality is quite the same as ONTAP, which is known for its ability to address business continuity. 

The performance is equivalent to other high-end storage systems, and it is easy to deploy and administer.  

The only thing holding Huawei back is the backlash it is facing due to the political tensions between the United States and China.

Customers are hesitant to purchase Huawei products simply because of the negative publicity the company has received. So, there is a significant challenge for Huawei in the face of competition from NetApp.

In the future, I would like to have French-speaking support. 

Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration. This thing is a big lag for Huawei because it's mostly on-premise storage, and they don't have the availability to put the data in the cloud like we have the ease of use of NetApp. 

And you administer your solution from on-premise to the cloud from the single pane of the window and from one point though. So, and that's something that Huawei doesn't have.

This is a mandatory feature for modern storage systems, and I am surprised that Huawei OceanStor Dorado does not have it yet.

Our primary use case for the solution includes deployments in the financial services industry (FSI), public and private sector. 

The platform's most valuable features are competitive pricing, high I/O performance, and support for NVMe disks. Its impressive speed and functionality make it a cost-effective choice with top-tier performance.

We also did a three-month POC with Huawei's Dorado 8000 for database purposes, specifically Oracle and some trust application teams.

Two things really stand out for me. First, there's group cloning, which is very nice. It simplifies managing multiple clones across the group.

Second, Huawei's multi-controller architecture with load balancing is a good part. Unlike other storage systems that rely on active-passive or active-active controllers, which can experience downtime during maintenance, OceanStor Dorado supports more than two controllers, allowing for seamless maintenance without impacting I/O operations. 

We even tested this by pulling out a controller during peak I/O time, and the system handled it flawlessly – no errors, no disruptions. That's simply unmatched in my experience.

Our use cases include VDI and full-virtualization environments.

It's fast. The performance is good.