We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and Huawei OceanStor 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 feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"You can add compute and capacity independently. We have sized the solution based on our current needs, but in the future we can choose to increase capacity if we grow our activity in the market. And if we have more business in our monetary system, we can increase compute. The ability to choose what we increase is a good feature."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"The support is very good."
"It provides a big benefit when upgrading a new VMware environment. For example, in a big environment with 10 to 30 ESXs, you can take everything and put that into PowerStore. So, it is cost-effective, which is very important and has been massive for us. You reduce almost 80% from the hardware and work directly from PowerStore. Building hardware, especially in a big VMware environment, is a big issue for my organization."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"Great value for money."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"The solution is scalable."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"If your virtual machine that resides on it completely fills the storage space, thanks to it's built-in function of all-zero data space reclamation, you just have to ask to System Engineer to run a zero-free on hosts (thin provisioned) and you will get more space instantaneously."
"Automation could be simplified."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"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 higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"Could use some additional automation."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements."
"You cannot delegate permissions."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
"The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and DDN SFA7990X. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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