We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and SolidFire 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."Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"The performance is good."
"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 installation and management are very easy."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SmartMigration, HyperReplication, HyperSnap, HyperCopy, HyperClone, SmartPartition, and SmartCache."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment takes about a day."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"I would say in terms of architecture and in terms of functionality, the product is quite good."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"We can add a node, we add compute, we add storage, and we've had really good luck with that."
"If we get complaints about any kind of performance metric issues, whether it's storage related or something on the virtual side, we use it to pinpoint what the actual issue is."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"We can just buy them, scale them as we need on demand, and we don't have to spend so many front end cycles on designing the architecture."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"The price should be lower."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"The price could be better."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"The solution's price could be better."
"In additional features, it would be easier to do snapshots on a regular basis. So, like, a new feature that would allow you to take snapshots every hour."
"The built-in reporting tools need some enhancement."
"This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols"
"Having distinct modules for data compression and encryption features enhances flexibility and performance optimization for users with varying requirements."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"SolidFire should start from two nodes instead of the four nodes. That's the only thing. In a lot of solutions, we have to use four nodes, that's the better thing. But as a starting point, two is better. That's why their starting point is expensive."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"I would like to see integration with the cloud, number one. Being able to spin SolidFire in the cloud."
"They could do a file-based NAS: SolidFire NAS-based. It's probably not its niche, but that is our direction, not to use block, and it's block. Solid state block is what it is."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while SolidFire 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. SolidFire report.
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