We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and Pure Storage FlashArray based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Pure Storage FlashArray came out ahead of Huawei OceanStor. Even though both products were described as easy to deploy and with valuable features, Huawei OceanStor has a complex licensing model and needs better communication for effective technical support.
"The latency is good."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"The solution is scalable."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"It is a highly available product."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"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."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"This solution is very scalable."
"Support has been helpful."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"The software layer has to improve."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"We need better data deduplication."
"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."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"It is on the expensive side."
"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."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"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 tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashArray 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 Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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