"The high availability of Dell EMC Unity XT has been the most important feature."
"Initial setup is a simple process."
"When I have an issue and need technical support, I reach out to them either through chat or by submitting a service request, and the response is good."
"I have had no problem at all. I think this is one of the most important things. It is very good. Maintaining it and deploying updates require very low maintenance. We haven't had problems. We had to replace a couple of disks in all these years, but it was pretty straightforward."
"The solution overall has high performance."
"I have found Dell EMC Unity XT to be stable."
"This solution is easy to work with and easy to maintain."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the unified storage. Also, its capabilities for block-access, file access, and the center box."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The pricing is very reasonable."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"The pre-sales technical support and technical engagement could be made better for this product."
"Scalability of this solution could be improved."
"It could be improved in the area of management flexibility. For example, I really need to set read-only access for LUNs, and there's no such option with Unity XT."
"We have only used this solution for less than one year so I don't have any improvements suggestions yet."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the deduplication part, because for large deduplications, you need an extra appliance to do it in order to avoid having problems in performance. I think that could be improved, because everything should be included in the product, not with an appliance from the outside."
"It could go faster. Make it bigger, better, and faster at a lower price, and I am there."
"Having more artificial intelligence tools built into the solution would be a great benefit. This would allow us to see more about the workloads and higher visibility, such as performance degradation."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately one hour. However, the full process was not as simple as IBM."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"We did experience a little latency with this solution."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"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."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 29 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 9 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "We can do both block and file storage on one unit without purchasing a separate device". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "Its management interface it's quite simple". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Huawei OceanStor Dorado, HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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