We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp FAS Series 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 security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"It has good stability for our company."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"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."
"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."
"The most valuable aspects encompass a comprehensive set of common features, such as NetFlow technology, hyper-micro, and hyper-application functionalities."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The majority of our customers find this solution simple to use."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"It is very flexible. It integrates well with the public cloud and other components, so everything can be API driven. Therefore, it is very easy to automate it."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"It was not proactive communication."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"The product could always be faster."
"The speeds of the disks themselves need to be faster. The disks are not flash. When we opened our hard drive from the inclusion, I saw a converter, and it's not entirely flash."
"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."
"This solution can improve by providing easier migrations and better Metro features."
"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."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"The product must support more drives."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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