We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and Violin System 7000 Series 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."The reliability is very good."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"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 initial setup was really straight forward."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"Great value for money."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"This is an all-flash storage array. It is the best solution for large batch processing. There are some customer databases that have tens of millions of records in one large database. That's where VIOLIN performs the best. VIOLIN stands out for million of IOPS with ultra-low latency. VIOLIN can provide about two million IOPS in a 3U unit. We have a latency of less than one millisecond."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"The price should be lower."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"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."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"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 more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"Its overall usability can be improved. It takes some time to know small things here and there to make sure it is working properly."
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Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while Violin System 7000 Series is ranked 38th in All-Flash Storage. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while Violin System 7000 Series is rated 9.0. 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 System 7000 Series writes "Best for large batch processing and stands out for million of IOPS and ultra-low latency". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas Violin System 7000 Series is most compared with .
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