We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and Pure Storage FlashBlade 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."This solution is very scalable."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"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."
"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"The ease of deployment and management has helped us simplify our storage. We also do not have to worry about capacity management as much. A lot of these things are native to Pure Storage."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"We have seen a reduction in the total cost of ownership by around 20%."
"The tool's most valuable features are data warehousing, speedy recovery, and analytics. Its latest release is cost-effective."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures efficient replication and helps maintain our data centers' uptime."
"We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to."
"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."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"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."
"The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution."
"I would like to see more monitoring capability included in the next release of this solution."
"In terms of scalability, it doesn't expand out quite as robustly as some of the others, but it covers 90% of the market in what it does."
"The Pure Storage Orchestrator is our biggest pain point at the moment. If we can have more say in future developments of feature sets that we will need to support for our use case, that would be pretty beneficial to us."
"An area for improvement in Pure Storage FlashBlade is its price. It could be reduced. The technical support for Pure Storage FlashBlade also needs improvement. It used to be good, with more experienced engineers. Nowadays, it isn't, and it takes longer for support to solve problems."
"The speed could be improved."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. 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 FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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