We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series 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."It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"Very efficient storage"
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"This solution is easy to use."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."
"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."
"The most valuable feature is the no-forklift upgrade. While the thing is running, I can change out the controllers one at a time and keep the customer up and running. I can add shelves and storage and SSD drives or spinning drives to the system, while it's running. I can bring all that in and rebalance the load across the new disks or, if we take disks away, rebalance the load across what's remaining, and it just works."
"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"It has good dedupe and compression. Also, the built-in data migration capabilities are pretty good, as is the federation. When we started migrating the workloads from different storage platforms, like NetApp and XtremeIO, it helped us in moving to that direction."
"Huawei OceanStor is designed with built-in high availability features, such as fault tolerance, ensuring consistent data access and minimizing downtime."
"The solution is scalable."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"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 performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"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."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"Automation could be simplified."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"There's always room for improvement in the operating code."
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable."
"The price could be improved."
"Dell could improve the upgrading process."
"The administration and support (on the way that they delivered) was a little bit slow."
"In terms of additional features, I would like to see some kind of I/O meter, to indicate what we are using in terms of performance. I would like to see automation with that, where it would give me the trends. I want to know those things easily, to help me know where issues are going to occur."
"Compellent comes in the form of a component that's not true of a unified storage platform."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"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."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp AFF, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X. See our Dell SC Series vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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