We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and Huawei OceanStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"It simplifies storage."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"Technical support is good."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"Huawei OceanStor is a good product. Its interface is very simple. The complexities we encounter with recovery points are gone. We just attach to remote storage, click the application, and it starts."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"It is a highly available product."
"The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"Huawei OceanStor should work on its saturation level and should be able to take up more load. It should give the same performance that it gives at 20 or 30 percent load for 80 percent as well."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, Tintri VMstore and NetApp AFF, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X.
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