We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and VIOLIN QV2020 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Great value for money."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage 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 has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"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 support is excellent."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"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."
"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."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"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."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while VIOLIN QV2020 is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while VIOLIN QV2020 is rated 8.0. 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 VIOLIN QV2020 writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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