Huawei FusionStorage vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Huawei and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Storage category. Huawei is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.5, while NetApp is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.1. Huawei holds a 2.3% mindshare in CS, compared to NetApp’s 10.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Huawei users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Huawei FusionStorage

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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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95% willing to recommend

Huawei FusionStorage

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 17, 2024

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Huawei FusionStorage provide competitive cloud storage solutions. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP seems to have the upper hand due to its affordability and ease of deployment, while Huawei FusionStorage is favored for its comprehensive features despite higher costs.

Features:NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is known for robust data management, scalability, and disaster recovery capabilities, making it efficient for hybrid cloud environments. Huawei FusionStorage stands out with high performance, flexibility, and support for various storage types, making it suitable for diverse workloads and rich in features.

Room for Improvement:NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users suggest improvements in performance optimization, third-party tool integration, and configuration complexity. Huawei FusionStorage users point to better documentation, seamless updates, and managing complexity in large environments as areas needing improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP deployment is rated as straightforward with responsive customer support. Huawei FusionStorage's initial setup can be challenging, but comprehensive support is available once deployed.

Pricing and ROI:NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is cost-effective with a good balance between price and features, delivering quicker ROI. Huawei FusionStorage, while more expensive, is perceived to provide substantial value due to its extensive capabilities, resulting in a longer ROI period.

To learn more, read our detailed Huawei FusionStorage vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Huawei FusionStorage

Ranking in Cloud Storage

16th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File and Object Storage (19th)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Storage

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (2nd), Cloud Backup (13th), Public Cloud Storage Services (8th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of Huawei FusionStorage is 2.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 10.2%, down from 14.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	10.2%
Huawei FusionStorage	2.3%
Other	87.5%

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Featured Reviews

Wondwossen Abebe Kebede

Program and performance manager at Ethio Telecom

Reliable platform that integrates well with different IT infrastructures and systems

The product integrates well with different IT infrastructures and systems in the telecom sector. Our partners manage services, including detailed integration and migration-related operations. The platform upholds the uptime and reliability of our business applications. We classify our systems into different tiers, ranging from machine-critical to business-critical, and FusionStorage helps us run all the services. It delivers a remarkable uptime of 99.9%. With our expectations for continuous service availability, we are operating 24/7. In cases where system interruptions occur, it enables rapid restoration, ensuring a prompt return to normal service levels. I rate it an eight out of ten.

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Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Offers advanced features with notable emphasis on innovation

The best features of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP include deduplication, compaction, and autonomous ransomware technology that native cloud storage solutions in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud do not support. Moreover, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows the use of multiple protocols including NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, whereas native options may only support NFS and iSCSI. Customers already using on-premises NetApp storage such as FAS, AFF, or ASA can experience the same functionality on the cloud with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which adds significant value. For data protection, customers can take advantage of the Snapshot technology available with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. This technology facilitates data recovery by allowing snapshots to be stored either on the same storage or on a disaster recovery (DR) storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP helps us to take snapshots and store them on the same storage, with options for migration or replication of those snapshots to different storage, including on-premises DR storage or other cloud storage, providing excellent disaster recovery capabilities.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product has a very simple GUI-based management platform and it is very simple to use. There is a very easy step-by-step configuration procedure that guides you through, and you can configure it very easily."

"The solution’s most valuable feature is its performance."

"In cases where system interruptions occur, it enables rapid restoration, ensuring a prompt return to normal service levels."

"It is a stable solution."

"Provides easy access to our data."

"Huawei FusionStorage does well in its basic functions and offers broad utility."

"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."

"The ability for our users to restore data from the Snapshots is very valuable."

"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."

"ONTAP's snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are pretty useful in recovering your data from a time in a snapshot. That's pretty useful for when you have an event where a disaster struck and then you need to recover all your data. It's pretty helpful and pretty fast in those terms."

"The most valuable features are tiering to S3 and being able to turn it on and off, based on a schedule."

"Another feature which gets a lot of attention in our environment is the File Services Solutions in the cloud, because it's a completely, fully-managed service. We don't have to take care of any updates, upgrades, or configurations."

"Multiprotocol is the most valuable because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data from Linux and from Windows clients. That was our value proposition for CVO, Cloud Volumes ONTAP."

"It's very easy to set up, and within 40 minutes, you can apply storage notes in Azure."

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Cons

"Their cloud services could be improved."

"The product needs improvement in terms of affordability."

"The initial setup and installation is not that straightforward. It should be made easier and the time to install should be reduced."

"The problem with Huawei is that it generally oversells. As a principle, Huawei does not educate the partner or the end user enough to scale up their solution correctly."

"I hope for improvements in the product's processing ability and performance."

"The solution’s support could be improved."

"The DR has room for improvement. For example, we now have NetApp in Western Europe and we would like to back up the information to another region. It's impossible. We need to bring up an additional NetApp in that other region and create a Cloud Manager automation to copy the data... I would prefer it to be a more integrated solution like it was in the NetApp solution about a year ago. I would like to see something like AltaVault but in the cloud."

"How it handles erasure coding. I feel it the improvement should be there. Basically, it should be seamless. You don't want to have an underlying hardware issue or something, then suddenly there's no reads or writes. Luckily, it's at a replication site, so our main production site is still working and writing to it. But, the replication site has stopped right now while we try to bring that node back. Since we implemented in bare-metal, not in appliance, we had to go back to the original vendor. They didn't send it in time, and we had a hardware memory issue. Then, we had a hard disk issue, which brought the node down physically."

"It would be fantastic if NetApp could offer a solution that's as user-friendly as Google Drive for seamless cloud storage integration."

"I would like to see better integration with Active IQ."

"One difficulty is that it has no SAP HANA certification. The asset performance restrictions create challenges with the infrastructure underneath: The disks and stuff like that often have lower latencies than SAP HANA itself has to have."

"I would like to have more management tools. They are difficult to work with, so I would like them to be a bit more user-friendly."

"Scale-up and scale-out could be improved. It would be interesting to have multiple HA pairs on one cluster, for example, or to increase the single instances more, from a performance perspective. It would be good to get more performance out of a single HA pair."

"I would like to see them improve the perspective of start and search in the panels. This would allow for better visualization of the contents that are captured in the tool."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"If one is a cheap solution and ten means it is a very expensive product, I would rate the price as two or three."

"It is expensive but might be optimal based on the partnership."

"Some flexibility around the licensing model would help. The product is licensed based on capacity. Basically, the largest capacity license that you can buy is 368 terabytes. At this point, NetApp is addressing some people's concerns around this."

"Our licensing is based on a yearly subscription. That is an additional cost, but because of the storage efficiencies that the NetApp gives, even with the additional cost of the NetApp license, you still end up saving money versus straight Azure native for storage. It's definitely worth it."

"Once we deploy the pay as you go model, we cannot convert this product as a BYOL model. This is a concern that we have."

"We purchased the product directly from NetApp."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."

"We find the pricing to be favorable due to the educational sector we belong to."

"Our licensing costs are folded into the hardware purchases and I have never differentiated between the two."

"The deal with the seller was acceptable; the pricing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

University

Retailer

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	53

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Huawei FusionStorage?

In cases where system interruptions occur, it enables rapid restoration, ensuring a prompt return to normal service levels.

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What needs improvement with Huawei FusionStorage?

The solution’s support could be improved.

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What is your primary use case for Huawei FusionStorage?

Huawei FusionStorage provides a scalable, high-performance, and highly available distributed storage solution designed to support critical enterprise applications and big data workloads. We deploye...

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is actually quite reasonable in price compared to other native cloud storage options. For example, a customer using 100 TB of AWS storage would not benefit from deduplica...

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP does have a bit of initial complexity for users who are new to the system. Although it isn't overwhelmingly complex, first-time users may find it challenging until they b...

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ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Huawei FusionStorage fully distributed cloud storage features massive scale-out capability designed for cloud-based architectures. The on-board storage system software combines the local storage resources of standard x86 servers into fully distributed storage pools, providing block, object, or file storage resources to the upper layer. An enterprise can easily obtain the required flexibility and efficiency in data storage to keep up with the ever-changing dynamics of business.

Huawei

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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Sample Customers

China Merchants Bank, Liaoning, Zhejiang

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