We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"Great value for money."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"Huawei OceanStor is designed with built-in high availability features, such as fault tolerance, ensuring consistent data access and minimizing downtime."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance of the database access."
"The hardware and software of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy for us to use."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"The stability, speed, and reliability are the solution's best features. The information is also very secure."
"The benefits are better up-time, better response time."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"Some of the valuable features include MetroCluster switchover, in terms of disaster recovery, it is easy to use, and flexible."
"The main advantage of this solution is performance."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"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."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"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 GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"The product must improve the local technical support in China."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
"The management interface, while very reliable, it seems a little old now and could maybe use a little modernization."
"A little more manageability, a simpler management interface. It's not necessarily that it's way overly complex. It's just that it's not as easy as the FAS series."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"It was difficult to implement and lacks some additional features that would be useful, but as a solution fits a particular need for our organization."
"The initial setup phase of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is not straightforward and needs improvement."
"The price of the All Flash solution is very high."
"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."
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Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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