Huawei OceanStor vs NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays comparison

Huawei and NetApp are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Huawei is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.8, while NetApp is ranked #26 with an average rating of 9.5. Huawei holds a 2.2% mindshare in AFS, compared to NetApp’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Huawei users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays and Huawei OceanStor compete in the premium storage solutions category. NetApp EF-Series appears to have the upper hand in speed and reliability, while Huawei OceanStor offers an advanced feature set.

Features: NetApp EF-Series includes high performance, low latency, and suitability for demanding workloads. Huawei OceanStor offers AI-based data management, active-active disaster recovery, and comprehensive capabilities.

Room for Improvement: NetApp EF-Series needs enhanced scalability options, better integration with third-party applications, and more intuitive management platforms. Huawei OceanStor requires a more intuitive management platform, improved technical documentation, and streamlined user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetApp EF-Series is known for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. Huawei OceanStor has a steeper learning curve but offers more extensive support services.

Pricing and ROI: NetApp EF-Series users highlight fair pricing and quick return on investment. Huawei OceanStor is more expensive upfront but justified by its extensive features and long-term value.

To learn more, read our detailed Huawei OceanStor vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the All-Flash Storage category, the mindshare of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Huawei OceanStor is 2.2%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

All-Flash Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Huawei OceanStor	2.2%
Pure FlashArray X NVMe	1.0%
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays	0.7%
Other	96.1%

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Featured Reviews

Jaehoon Oh

Chief Technology Officer at Lambda256

Supports efficient storage management through volume snapshots and offers reliable non-disruptive upgrades

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could be enhanced. I can see the performance statistics in the Pure Storage console, but it does not show the performance by 4K byte unit. It displays IOPS and bandwidth, but IOPS is about real use, and I want to know how many IOPS are currently running in 4K byte units. I cannot see that IOPS because most storage systems report their performance by 4K byte unit. I want to see Pure Storage performance by 4K byte unit to compare with other storage or other internal NVMe SSD.

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AmanullahMehmood

Pre-Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Offers better price and features compared to its competitors

The technical support for the solution is very good. Huawei, in our region, has more than 2,000 employees in the office, and they mostly have post-sales engineers for storage, servers, and networks. Huawei also trains its partner engineers on the storage it offers. If a customer faces any problem, then a partner engineer will first resolve it. If an issue is not resolved in the tool, then Huawei engineers get involved, and the case gets lodged with Huawei's tech team, after whom a Huawei engineer will come. The partner, a tech team, and then a Huawei engineer get involved in the support process. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

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Tayo Olubanke

Managing Director at GCET

Offers flexibility and top-notch technology

You can go to bed peacefully if you have a NetApp. If you have NetApp within your data center, you get to know about power failure if you are using it. Your NetApp will still come alive. Even if it does not come alive, I can say that it is not like other tools when it comes to dealing with power failure. The tool is affordable, and the technology is top-notch. It is the only technology that has software for what we call inline compression and deduplication. All the products under NetApp are aiming to use AI. I know that you can achieve whatever you want to do with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays. I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."

"The tool's valuable features are speed, security, data compression, and reliability. Its data compression feature is the best that we have ever seen. It helps us to save money and resources."

"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."

"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."

"We are satisfied with the performance as it is significantly faster compared to traditional storage options."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."

"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."

"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."

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"The initial setup was straightforward."

"Huawei is much cheaper compared to Dell, offering a competitive price that makes companies consider their options."

"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."

"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."

"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."

"Huawei OceanStor is stable and reliable for storage solutions."

"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."

"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."

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"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."

"The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature."

"Compared to Dell Unity XT, what I see as an advantage in NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is the fact that it is more scalable...The performance of the product is good."

"The management software is very good."

"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The main advantage of this solution is performance."

"This storage solution is both stable and scalable, and it works for our needs."

"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."

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Cons

"Managing data isn't difficult for me. The performance is usually perfect, but we sometimes have capacity problems."

"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."

"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."

"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."

"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."

"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."

"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."

"Maybe the price can be reduced since the solution is very expensive."

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"The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."

"When it comes to the technical support team, I feel that the response time is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."

"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."

"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."

"The price could be better. It's not good for the Brazilian market."

"The technical support has been a let down for us. It's something the company has to work on. We haven't been satisfied with their level of service."

"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."

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"NetApp could improve the speed of the rebuilding rate."

"As far as the manageability, being able to port between the two and have to do less training in-house from a customer point of view, that would be the part to improve."

"The solution's technical support is not as good as it is supposed to be since you have to push them to get support."

"The management interface, while very reliable, it seems a little old now and could maybe use a little modernization."

"I would like to shrink it more, if we can. The smaller, the better."

"The dashboard could be simplified."

"The only major drawback is the replication between EF-Series units."

"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"With VMware, we pay $300,000 annually."

"Our licensing fees are $500,000+ USD."

"The tool is an investment that we've budgeted for. While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits. We don't regret purchasing it."

"The licensing is on a yearly basis."

"Given its price, Pure is not the first option."

"Its price could be better. It is not too expensive, but it is the high-end cost. It is kind of a Rolls-Royce. You pay a lot, but you get a lot out of it. So, the price pressure on the way down would be great, but at the end of the day, if you need to do the work, you just pay for it."

"Pure FlashArray X NVMe’s pricing is cheaper than other products."

"The support cost per array is about $20,000 a year for 24/7 support."

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"The product is cheap."

"We pay a monthly licensing fee for this solution. The price could be less expensive."

"The price of the solution could be less expensive. However, there are not any licensing costs."

"The price of the license is quite low, so it's not something special or expensive."

"Huawei's prices are very good compared to those of its competitors."

"The pricing depends on the features the customer wants, such as storage, RAM, and processors, but in general, Huawei is much cheaper compared to Dell and Cisco."

"Huawei OceanStor is a cost-effective storage solution."

"Its price is affordable."

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"The price point for EF is considerably lower than the alternatives."

"Cheaper pricing is always good. NetApp has been doing everything the right way. They've been figuring out things really well, going in the right direction."

"They provide licenses upon purchase, so there's no need for additional licenses. Regarding additional expenses apart from the standard licensing fees, such as for support or maintenance, there aren't any. Updates take around twenty to thirty minutes, including rebooting the systems, and we haven't faced any problems with the NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays. We utilize various other storages like Fujitsu, IBM, and Dalian SIP, but the NetApp EF-Series stands out as we've had no issues throughout the entire year of usage."

"NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is an expensive product."

"The cost of our license is approximately $200,000 over three years for NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays. There can be additional costs for storage. For example, if you want to have eight terabytes."

"Most of my customers pay for the license on a yearly basis. It can be expensive depending on the capacity number."

"he price point that we're getting is very competitive in the market. Since we are buying in such a large quantity, they gave us a huge discount."

"The pricing is comparable with other competitors and similar in mid-range solutions, and for high range solutions, it would depend on our requirements or needs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

University

Performing Arts

12%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	12

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Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	7

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Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	18

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

The price of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is very expensive, though I do not know the actual price because I am using the E...

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What needs improvement with Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could ...

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What do you like most about Huawei OceanStor?

Huawei OceanStor has the capability of SSDs, high-performance disks, and higher disk support.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Huawei OceanStor?

Huawei OceanStor's pricing is very aggressive, making it highly competitive.

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What needs improvement with Huawei OceanStor?

Huawei currently lacks a solution for high-performance AI, unlike other companies like DDN, WekaIO, or IBM BlueStore....

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What do you like most about NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays?

Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays?

One has to opt for a perpetual-based licensing model for one year or three years. After three years, you need to rene...

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What needs improvement with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays?

The support of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required. I want NetApp's supp...

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Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X

OceanStor Dorado V3 All-Flash Storage System, OceanStor 18000 V3 Series Storage Systems, OceanStor 6800 V3 Storage System

NetApp EF540, NetApp EF-Series

Overview

Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.

Pure Storage

OceanStor Dorado V3 is the industry's first all-flash storage that puts NVMe into commercial use. It is specially designed for enterprises' mission-critical businesses, meeting the most-demanding performance and reliability requirements of databases, VDI, server virtualization, and SAP HANA.

Huawei

The NetApp EF560 all-flash array is an all-SSD storage system for applications that demand extremely high levels of performance and reliability. Requiring just 2U of rack space, the EF560 all-flash array combines extreme IOPS, microsecond response times, and up to 12GBps of bandwidth with leading, enterprise-proven availability features.

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