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We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"This solution is very scalable.""Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry.""Provides fast access and is user-friendly.""The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides.""The solution is very reliable.""The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data.""As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change.""We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."

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"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage.""Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors.""The most valuable feature is the availability.""Great value for money.""The solution is easy to scale as needed.""The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related.""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 most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."

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"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space.""It is very stable, even during multiple power failures.""Integration with VMware""The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data.""The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access.""Good performance for VM environments""The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages.""High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."

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Cons
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations.""The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature.""It needs to improve its price.""It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated.""The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware.""If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it.""A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad.""Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."

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"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application.""The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved.""The user interface is not so user friendly.""Configuration complexity and the tools available.""I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined.""In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution.""The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good.""Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."

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"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible.""Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing.""The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX.""VNX can improve by offering flexible upgrade options. It's not possible to add a single HDD to a current array and there are fixed rules to make upgrades.""It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption.""Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones.""There is an easy replication process between distinct data centers via VPLEX and/or RPA. But I hope in the future that EMC/Dell could replicate this with other types of storage.""If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We feel that the pricing is fair and the licensing process was easy for both."
  • "There is always room for negotiation."
  • "The price was slightly higher than others, but competitive, if you consider all the other features that you get from it."
  • "It is a more expensive solution, but it is worth it. You are getting what you paid for."
  • "For pricing, you have to take into account their performance on deduplication and compression in a $/GB comparison."
  • "We have seen a reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO)."
  • "It is a cheaper solution."
  • "Pure Storage is all-flash, so this sometimes tends to make it a bit more expensive in the beginning."
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  • "This product value matches its price."
  • "It's roughly affordable."
  • "Pricing is very fair."
  • "Huawei OceanStor is priced very well but is a bit complicated."
  • "The price of the solution could be less expensive. However, there are not any licensing costs."
  • "We pay a monthly licensing fee for this solution. The price could be less expensive."
  • "The pricing depends on the features the customer wants, such as storage, RAM, and processors, but in general, Huawei is much cheaper compared to Dell and Cisco."
  • "The price of Huawei OceanStor should be less expensive. It is expensive at the moment."
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  • "The initial pricing and licensing are reasonable. Yearly EMC is more expensive."
  • "While EMC tends to be on the expensive side, the stability and support of their products are top-notch and I feel are worth the cost."
  • "Make sure you understand how the licensing works and that you are getting the right set of licenses if you need array-to-array replication."
  • "Over time, VNX has become pricier than its competitors, and we have turned enthusiastically to Unity."
  • "Pricing is somewhat higher, especially in Zambia, perhaps due to the low sales volume."
  • "The initial pricing and licensing are reasonable, the yearly EMC is more expensive"
  • "​Reducing dependency on JavaServer Pages​ (JSP) could improve the administrative overhead.​"
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    Also Known As
    OceanStor Dorado V3 All-Flash Storage System, OceanStor 18000 V3 Series Storage Systems, OceanStor 6800 V3 Storage System
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    Overview

    Pure Storage FlashArray is the world’s first enterprise-class storage array that runs exclusively on the nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) protocol for memory access and storage. It represents a totally state-of-the-art type of storage technology. It offers users shared accelerated storage that delivers cutting-edge features in the realms of performance, simplicity, and consolidation. Pure Storage is fresh and modern today and will be for the next decade. Without forklift upgrades or planned downtime, Pure Storage takes the work out of storage ownership and delivers unprecedented customer satisfaction.

    Pure Storage FlashArray is built with simplicity and reliability in mind. The solution can be implemented and optimized in hours, as opposed to other similar solutions that can take days. It has no moving parts, which removes areas where it could potentially be vulnerable to suffering errors. It is highly stable and gives users the ability to manage system shutdowns in a way that  prevents data loss.

    Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray

    Some of the benefits of using Pure Storage FlashArray include:

    • A much higher level of speed than similar pieces of technology. Pure Storage FlashArray maximizes the speed at which data can be transferred while at the same time minimizing system latencies that might slow the transfer down. Additionally, it offers users quick memory read and data access speeds.

    • A higher bang for your buck in terms of the storage capabilities you get for the money you pay. They are smaller in size than more standard storage technologies, but they offer flash memory, which enables users to store larger amounts of data than the current standard.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Pure Storage FlashArray is a highly effective piece of storage technology which stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its overall robustness and the value that it offers by way of its reliability and ease of use. It provides users with many valuable features that allow them to maximize what they can do with this solution. Pure Storage FlashArray’s reliability and ease of use make it a highly valuable solution. 

    PeerSpot user Prabakaran K., a technical consultant at Injazat Data Systems, notes the robustness of this solution when he writes, "FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."

    PeerSpot user Jason D., a cloud solutions architect at a tech services company, notes three features that make this solution valuable when he writes, "We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."

    OceanStor Dorado V3 is the industry's first all-flash storage that puts NVMe into commercial use. It is specially designed for enterprises' mission-critical businesses, meeting the most-demanding performance and reliability requirements of databases, VDI, server virtualization, and SAP HANA.

    With EMC VNX you'll have the right blend of flash, capacity, and application-aware software. Scale up storage for midrange workloads, optimized for virtual applications and cloud environments.

    Sample Customers
    Nielsen, Lamar Advertising, LinkedIn, Betfair, UT-Dallas
    Piraeus, Clinique Univeritaires Saint-Luc
    Samsonite, Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Kindred Healthcare
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Healthcare Company12%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Educational Organization31%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Manufacturing Company22%
    Recreational Facilities/Services Company17%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Comms Service Provider17%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Retailer16%
    Healthcare Company11%
    Security Firm11%
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    Financial Services Firm16%
    Real Estate/Law Firm13%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Company Size
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise40%
    Large Enterprise42%
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    Small Business67%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise12%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise61%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise51%
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    Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while VNX [EOL] 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 VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .

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