We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage 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."On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"The solution's uptime is fantastic. It's 100 percent. In addition, Nimble's storage capacity efficiency is very effective."
"In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable."
"Scalability is another reason we chose to go with Nimble: upgrading to another storage array. If we need higher capacity or throughput, we can just replace controllers, we don't have to replace or forklift-upgrade the whole chassis."
"I really like the form factor, which is nice and compact and small."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. It is much easier to use, and we do not have to worry about the I/O profile of the workloads that we putting on the array."
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"Our virtual admins are able to take control of Nimble and know how to allocate the storage, whenever it is required, thus reducing time."
"We get storage access without the need for more human monitoring of those resources."
"The performance is good."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"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 majority of our customers find this solution simple to use."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment takes about a day."
"It is very easy to use."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"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."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"The price should be lower."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"The way the market is going, supporting NVMe storage would be useful as a step up."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"We are doing a hybrid and are moving some machines to Microsoft Azure to run in hybrid mode. We are checking the availability of extra software-defined storage so that we can configure it."
"It was a bit expensive."
"We have had some stability issues with one array which has happened twice during subsequent software updates but is due to a bad Postgres database."
"This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0."
"An area of this product that has room for improvement is the NAS capability."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."
"The price must be improved."
"This solution can improve by providing easier migrations and better Metro features."
"It should have easy connectivity with the AIX, however, I've found that with AIX, it has some issues and due to this, we need to remove the exact fiber card sometimes and then plug it in again so that it can connect with the AIX systems."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"The built-in reporting tools need some enhancement."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and HPE Primera. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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