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."Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"Technical support is good."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"The simplicity and ease of use have been very valuable features. I have a very small team, and only half of the team is well versed in the HP product. Whereas if I bring PowerStore in, everyone can learn it because it will be new on the floor."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"I like the performance of the PowerStore. When you talk about PowerStore, it's mainly about flash systems and high-end IOPS. The 1000T is a midsize box, in terms of the way the vendor positions it, but it is more than enough for our needs."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"Huawei OceanStor is designed with built-in high availability features, such as fault tolerance, ensuring consistent data access and minimizing downtime."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The price should be lower."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster."
"More demonstration and training options are needed."
"Dell PowerStore is a good solution overall, but some models could support hypervisors better by allowing for more customization and flexibility for customer needs."
"The customer service and support are bad."
"You cannot delegate permissions."
"When it comes to Dell PowerStore, I would like to see more integration and more security features included. It's unfortunate that the solution does not feature Flash trace."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"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."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"CFS integration is one area where OceanStor has some room for improvement. The CFS on OceanStor is dedicated, so it's not integrated with the existing active directory domain."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
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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