We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 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's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point."
"The product offers high stability."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"It is the most stable high-end solution in this area."
"This is one of the most stable, high-end solutions in this area."
"The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability."
"The hybrid array provides scaleable, predictable, high performance with no capacity constraints."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"The majority of our customers find this solution simple to use."
"Two things really stand out for me. First, there's group cloning, which is very nice. It simplifies managing multiple clones across the group. Second, Huawei's multi-controller architecture with load balancing is a good part."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"The most valuable feature for me is that it deduces better, whereby it can be assigned six times the usable capacity, depending on the nature of the data."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"There is a drawback related to Hitachi's configuration flexibility. The Hitachi storage platform solution is not flexible. That means that both the Hitachi and the partner presale guys have to do a lot of work to design a solution."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"The software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up."
"n future releases, I would like to see enhancements in the web GUI capabilities for direct management without additional PCM."
"I would like to see an audit account set up such that the user can log in, see the configuration, and see the logs, but they cannot make any changes."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"At the moment, I don't see any room for improvement in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series because my experience with the product is very good. The software is okay and you can manage the storage well. What I'd like to see in the next release of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is for it to be a real NAS solution because right now, you need to use a Hitachi converter called HNAS which makes the process a little bit more expensive. In my opinion, Hitachi should look into the possibility of unifying the HNAS into full storage, meaning that the HNAS should be integrated into the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"The data compression and deduplication ratio of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is not as good as other solutions, such as EMC and Pure Storage. It is important when looking at capacity effectiveness."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."
"The solution's price could be better."
"The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface."
"If they implement a backup solution directly into the OceanStor then it will be a valuable feature."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 47 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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