"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"I've been satisfied with the level of attention I'm given when I reach out to technical support."
"We can use Huawei OceanStor Dorado capacity storage for many different purposes."
"Most of the features which all enterprises storages solutions have are available in Huawei OceanStor Dorado."
"The majority of our customers find this solution simple to use."
"The installation and management are very easy."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"The technical support is very good."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"Support has been helpful."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"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."
"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."
"If they implement a backup solution directly into the OceanStor then it will be a valuable feature."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols"
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"There are some limitations to this product because they do not have unified storage."
"The product could always be faster."
"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."
"The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve the integration, there have been some compatibility issues with some operating system functions."
"The price could be better."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"The solution is not cheap."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
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Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 14th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 11 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 38 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.2, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Highly expandable, plenty of features, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Provides protection against ransomware threats with immutable snapshots, and it is well known for its scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Dell PowerMax NVMe and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), IBM FlashSystem, HPE Nimble Storage and Dell XtremIO. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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