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."It has good stability for our company."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"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 stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"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 support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"It is a highly available product."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"Efficient and easily scalable all-flash storage solution, significantly reducing latency, optimizing data management, and providing cost savings for businesses"
"If the AutoSupport is well configured, then you need not to do a monitoring. You will get call and mail when any issue is completed."
"It is easy to manage data through the GUI by using Active IQ and the unified manager."
"The tool's most valuable feature is SVM. I also like the speed and response of the filers."
"Speed. it's very performance designed. It's designed to have a lot of high speed."
"The tool's most valuable feature is efficiency."
"I like the ability to snapshot, and the cloning features are valuable to us as well. I like that I can quickly and efficiently snapshot the data and move it to wherever I need to locally or in the cloud. Also, I know that when I take the snapshot that all of the data will be there and that it will be usable when I need to use it."
"The performance is the most valuable feature."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"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 only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"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."
"We currently use some thin provisioning for our planning system, but we will probably move away from thin provisioning because our Solaris planning system actually has some issues with the thin provisioning and way Solaris handles it, since Solaris uses a ZFS file system. The ZFS file system doesn't like the thin provisioning changing things and it brings systems down, which is bad."
"There is no direct storage attachment available. Most configurations require additional switches for data access."
"They should make these features a little more affordable."
"The stability is good but there is room for improvement with other options."
"The scaling needs improvement. NetApp is limited for scaling options."
"We'd like to see improvement in the time to retrieve from the Cloud, whether it's on-prem to cloud and whether it's public or private cloud."
"I come tech support with difficulty because I installed NetApp for many years I know what to expect when I call. When I don't get their support tech that I'm expecting and I'm trying to get to the right one, it can get very frustrating for me personally, trying to all-flash push my way into the right person. NetApp has the right people, it's just a matter of getting to them."
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 and VMware vSAN. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. NetApp AFF report.
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