We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and VNX [EOL] 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."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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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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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