We performed a comparison between HPE Primera 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."They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the artificial intelligence for the storage inside of the software and firmware because customers do not like functionalities which require manual interruption."
"Primera's main advantage is its support for NVM drives and normal flash drives. It has some sort of AI analysis that automatically tells us how to optimize the performance."
"There has been a lot of changes in HPE Primera OS, and most of the time any package related to it is simple to upgrade. It does not require any support for the operation. The customer can easily deploy any code directly from the GUI which is very good. Additionally, we have individual storage we can allocate and easily manage."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"HPE Primera is an all-flash storage product that's very stable and has a higher storage capacity. It can also give better ROI compared to NetApp."
"The greatest advantage is the support when we encounter incidents, as HPE's support is highly responsive."
"When taking into account the price, maintenance required, and performance of HPE Primera, it is an effective solution."
"HPE Primera is stable."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"Huawei OceanStor is designed with built-in high availability features, such as fault tolerance, ensuring consistent data access and minimizing downtime."
"It is a highly available product."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"This is a stable storage system."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market."
"We face challenges with false alarms, particularly daily alerts related to replication link breaks. I'm not happy with the customer service and support."
"Like most storage, we want to see flash become more and more stable. Like any flash that uses MLC or TLC techniques, over time, the more writes you have, the less usable the storage becomes. They try to plan for this and have a lot of extra space in the arrays, but over time, their performance does degrade. This is true for any flash storage."
"On the hardware side, you should have the ability to expand capacity to larger numbers."
"The IOPS and throughput could be better. That's the only drawback compared to other vendors."
"HPE Primera's deduplication area is not as good as the one offered by Dell PowerStore, making it an area where improvements are required."
"We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data."
"One of the drawbacks of the model we purchased is that it is not running NVMe drives. Even though they say that it is NVMe-ready, it is still on the SSD drives. The model that we purchased has only eight hard drives, and only the ones on the top could work on NVMe. The rest of them are still on the SSD. Its competitors, such as EMC and Pure Storage, are moving or have already moved to NVMe. HPE should improve this solution for NVMe. HPE should also improve IOs in this solution. IOs in HPE are weaker than Hitachi and Pure Storage."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"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."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and NetApp NVMe AFF A800, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X. See our HPE Primera vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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