"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The pricing is very reasonable."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"This solution is very scalable."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"CFS integration is one area where OceanStor has some room for improvement. The CFS on OceanStor is dedicated, so it's not integrated with the existing active directory domain."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"We did experience a little latency with this solution."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"The solution is not cheap."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"The price should be lower."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
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Huawei OceanStor is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 9 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 38 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.8, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "Its management interface it's quite simple". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Provides protection against ransomware threats with immutable snapshots, and it is well known for its scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), IBM FlashSystem and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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