We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and Pure FlashArray X NVMe 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."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Huawei OceanStor is a good product. Its interface is very simple. The complexities we encounter with recovery points are gone. We just attach to remote storage, click the application, and it starts."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Great value for money."
"The support is excellent."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"If your virtual machine that resides on it completely fills the storage space, thanks to it's built-in function of all-zero data space reclamation, you just have to ask to System Engineer to run a zero-free on hosts (thin provisioned) and you will get more space instantaneously."
"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 Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"The solution is scalable."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"It needs to improve its price."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"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."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"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."
"The management is not a good feature in all of Huawei products. It's not easy or simple. Huawei has some problems with management and handling storage information from one interface."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"We need better data deduplication."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"In fututre releases, some focus on anti-malware should be there."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is ranked 14th in All-Flash Storage with 28 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is rated 9.2. 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 Pure FlashArray X NVMe writes "Works well, is easy to implement, and has upgrade analysis capabilities". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas Pure FlashArray X NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. Pure FlashArray X NVMe report.
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