We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO 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."It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"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 console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"Linear performance – The XtremIO wasn’t the fastest in all tests against other all flash arrays, but even with a massive workload, the response time and user experience were absolutely predictable with no sharp drop-offs."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment takes about a day."
"I've been satisfied with the level of attention I'm given when I reach out to technical support."
"The most valuable features are the five chips architecture and the purpose-built NVMe hard disk drive. Additionally, the IOPS feature is good."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"The performance is good."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"In some cases where we don’t need the flexibility of the virtualization layer, we could free up resources on the VPLEX by using the storage replication."
"Management: At the time, there was no snapshot scheduler, so I had to write XSnapCourier to address it. The sad thing is that even after the newest release, which includes a native scheduler, most customers using XSnapCourier chose to stick with it due to a more feature-rich experience."
"If you are looking at flash storage solutions, XtremIO doesn't offer any unique features. Most of my customers are migrating their workload from XtremIO to other formats because of this."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"The built-in reporting tools need some enhancement."
"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."
"The localization problem needs to be improved."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"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."
"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."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve the integration, there have been some compatibility issues with some operating system functions."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our Dell XtremIO vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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