We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and NetApp AFF 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 speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"The performance is very good."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"This solution is very scalable."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"The pricing is very reasonable."
"The support is excellent."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"Great value for money."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"It is a highly available product."
"We are a large-scale company, and our growth has been pretty significant over the last five or six years. We like the scale, and the way NetApp grows, so that's why we use it. It's mostly for block storage."
"The stability is solid. It doesn't fail on us, which is exactly what we want. We are in a critical business that we can't have any percentage of downtime."
"It has a good interface. Its configuration and flexibility are also good."
"The most valuable features are the performance and the storage efficiency, due to the compression and deduplication... The efficiency is very important because we can buy fewer disks for more data."
"With the new version, they have the FabricPool which works for me. I can extend the hyperscaler storage."
"Before we implemented AFF, Oracle was running on a traditional storage spindle and at a very low speed with high latency, and the database was not running very well. After we converted from the spinning disk to the all-flash array, it was at least four times faster to access the volume than before."
"It's helping to leverage data. The storage is being utilized to implement larger, complex file sizes."
"Deduplication"
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"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."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
"Huawei OceanStor should work on its saturation level and should be able to take up more load. It should give the same performance that it gives at 20 or 30 percent load for 80 percent as well."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"It would be better if they just improved the performance of the system."
"The initial setup has a lot more steps in it than are probably necessary for a base deployment, unlike other vendors where it's more straightforward. It could be a little bit more streamlined."
"We have had issues with CIFS presentations and outages, so if that was removed, we could do seamless upgrades without affecting CIFS presentations. That would be an advantage. That's about the only improvement I can think of."
"They should make these features a little more affordable."
"The ONTAP APIs are good, but little things here and there are slightly different, so I had to program something to catch a different error case or something like that. That adds a little work on my end, but it's ultimately been pretty easy to work with. It's just the consistency of the REST API. About, 95 percent of the operations working with the REST API are great, but then you have about 5 percent of things that are slightly different."
"I would like it to be an IP as our network is mainly IP-based."
"When it comes to the connectivity on the back end, where the hardware is concerned—the cabling and the like—it could also be simplified to ease the communication between the nodes and between the other components of the infrastructure. I still find that a little bit complicated."
"I would like for them to develop the ability to detach the fabric pool. Once you've added it to an aggregate it's there for life and it would be nice to disconnect it if we ever had to."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while NetApp AFF is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and DDN SFA7990X, whereas NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, VMware vSAN and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. NetApp AFF report.
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