We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."We like the speed. It's very low latency. In virtualization, you can mask lots of problems, and even in code you can mask lots of problems, with low latency. It's just pure speed and low latency."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"It has good stability for our company."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"The platform's most valuable features are reliability, intelligence, and fast performance speed."
"The product has the best compression and encryption features. The most valuable features I have found in the tool are its performance and cost-effectiveness. While Huawei OceanStor Dorado may not always be chosen for its features compared to other brands like Dell, HPE, etc., it is often selected due to its affordability. Customers opt for Huawei OceanStor Dorado primarily because it offers similar performance features as other brands at a lower cost."
"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 most valuable features are the five chips architecture and the purpose-built NVMe hard disk drive. Additionally, the IOPS feature is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment takes about a day."
"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"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."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"The product could always be faster."
"An area of this product that has room for improvement is the NAS capability."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"I would like to see them improve their IOPS per second to match their contemporaries in the industry."
"The localization problem needs to be improved."
"The technology and the features need improvement."
"There are some limitations to this product because they do not have unified storage."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
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Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is ranked 30th in All-Flash Storage. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array writes "Good support, improves performance, scales well, and boosts team efficiency". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is most compared with Pure FlashArray X NVMe.
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