We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and IBM FlashSystem 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."The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"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 solution’s overall security is good."
"The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment takes about a day."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The installation and management are very easy."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"The solution's pricing is its most valuable feature."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"The most valuable feature is reliability."
"High availability and enhanced security; Proven dependability; Data compression with hardware acceleration; Advanced copy services features are all in this product."
"IBM's technical support do excellent work."
"The valuable features for us are the extra add-ons, such as the FIM provisioning, the compression, the disaster recovery capabilities, and the storage pooling functions."
"The power systems are very reliable if you are running 24/7 operations. For ongoing mission-critical applications, it's the best solution."
"Most of the features for the reduction in data compression are useful. It is also very easy to use and administer. Its performance is also good."
"Over the years, it has become increasingly user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"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."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface."
"The price must be improved."
"This solution can improve by providing easier migrations and better Metro features."
"An area of this product that has room for improvement is the NAS capability."
"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."
"The technology and the features need improvement."
"The security features can be improved such that the encryption does not affect performance in any way."
"Their technical support needs improvement in terms of reachability for the clients and response times. They should be more responsive and have more online platforms for support. They should make more technical information available online. There could be some kind of documentation community."
"I would like to have a larger disk. Right now, you can get 57 terabytes in a shelf. Once they get the larger disk and you get larger capacities, it'll be even better."
"The marketing could be improved."
"Our model does not support compression or deduplication."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
"Sometimes the performance is effective but it gets resolved in the process."
"The array level RAID does not seem available."
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Primera. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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