We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series, Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage System, and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."The solution is stable."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"Customers are most impressed with SC's provisioning because you don't need to buy a large amount of storage upfront. It's pay-as-you-grow. It also has solid compression and duplication features."
"With federation, you can have multiple systems across sites. You can treat them as one, and with a live migration, volumes don't go down. You can move them from site to site, doing maintenance, and keep your environment up."
"We replicate between SAN to SAN for a lot of features and supportability. It also helps us when we want to upgrade to a newer SC Series or move the data from one data center to another."
"Everything is sub-5 MS for us. What I've found is that, with all-flash, when an app from my business is slow, I pretty much know it's them and not me. It leads to a performance conversation that has really hit an interesting threshold point where we are better than what they need. So now we get to have that "refactoring your application" conversation a lot quicker because now the performance on the infrastructure side isn't in question anymore."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"It's very scalable, especially with federation. If you outgrow the number of spindles that a unit can support, depending on the model, you can go into federation."
"Huawei has a lot of penetration into accounts in Islamabad and the whole region, especially in Islamabad, because this is where our capital is, this is where most of the government offices are."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"This solution is resilient."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"The most valuable features are the interface and performance."
"One option I would like to see is, when you're up on the view-screen, to be able to incorporate getting to what HPE call the iLO, the Integrated Lights-Out. To be able to get that instead of having to go back and trying to find IP addresses and re-institute those would be good. It would be good to be able to that put on the initial splash screen."
"The cost of the solution could be better."
"We had times that we needed a file service solution. We've used FluidFS, but it's a solution that is being transitioned out."
"The SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable."
"While the price is competitive, in the next release it would be better if they could reduce the fees."
"Dell could improve the upgrading process."
"The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series."
"It is an expensive product. They should lower the price."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore."
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