Huawei OceanStor Dorado Reviews

The product has the best compression and encryption features. The most valuable features I have found in the tool are its performance and cost-effectiveness. While Huawei OceanStor Dorado may not always be chosen for its features compared to other brands like Dell, HPE, etc., it is often selected due to its affordability. Customers opt for Huawei OceanStor Dorado primarily because it offers similar performance features as other brands at a lower cost.

The tool's high availability design is achieved through several components and features. It typically comes with dual controllers and redundancy configuration. Customers can send data to another location, typically another data center, for real-time synchronization and replication. 

The solution needs to improve its integration. 

I have been using the product for five years. 

The product is stable.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado is scalable. My company has four to five customers. 

The tool's deployment takes 10-30 mins to complete. 

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. The tool's performance is reliable and comparable to other brands. While it may be priced lower, it is still considered a good product.

The solution's most valuable feature is performance.

The solution's price could be better.

We have been using the solution for one or two months.

It is a stable solution. I rate its stability as a ten.

It is a scalable solution. We have ten customers using it.

The solution's technical support team provides the best services.

The solution is easy to set up and takes four hours to complete. It requires two managers for deployment and maintenance.

The solution is expensive.

I recommend the solution to others and rate it as a ten.

We are looking at selling OceanProtect to a major retailer in South Africa, and they are using it for Oracle workloads, SQL workloads, and VMWare and IBM AIX Power servers.

We are a Huawei partner and we predominantly sell storage, hence we are looking at OceanProtect which competes with other products, like Dell Data Domain, NEC HYDRAstor, etc. Pricing is a significant factor, but everyone's pricing is really good, making it less of a differentiator.

The localization problem needs to be improved.

We have to speak with Chinese resources, and sometimes there is a bit of a language barrier.

There is a need for more local people with the necessary knowledge about the product set to present to ourselves and customers.

We have been a Huawei partner for 12 months.

We haven't run in an environment as of yet, but we have heard that it is quite stable where customers have deployed this solution.

I rate the solution’s stability a seven out of ten.

I rate the solution’s scalability a seven out of ten.

The customer support is helpful.

Neutral

We have sold other storage solutions before.

Huawei approached our company and asked us to test Huawei OceanStor Dorado's storage. We thoroughly tested the product for safety, security, and stability before signing up as a partner.

The initial setup was reasonably easy.

I rate the pricing a six on a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive, not cost-effective, and ten is cheap.

I recommend this solution. 

Overall, I rate the solution seven out of ten.

Huawei has good pricing. It also has its SSD and NVMe hard drives. The company also develops its testing tools. It also has enough instances.

If you need a cluster for tool storage, you don't need any additional source area network switches. Only a network with sufficient bandwidth is required for the clusters. Huawei's setup is capable of operating on standard networks. However, it is incompatible with Nimble, Dell, or IBM networks.

I have been using Huawei OceanStor Dorado since 1998. We are using the latest update of the solution.

I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.

The solution’s scalability is high. It is deployed on small and medium businesses.

I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.

The customer support is excellent.

Positive

The initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete. The configuration is easy.

The product is cheaper for small businesses but expensive for middle businesses. It's the same as IBM and Dell.

I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado is used for storing data.

We can use Huawei OceanStor Dorado capacity storage for many different purposes.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols.

I have been using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for approximately two months.

The solution is stable.

The implementation was simple.

The price of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is very inexpensive, it cost approximately $5 per gigabyte.

I rate Huawei OceanStor Dorado a seven out of ten.

We primarily use this solution to store our virtualized environment where we supply all the applications in RT and the process of many other types of services to our subsidiaries.

The OceanStor V3 5000 was, when we started, the first real NVMe all-flash storage solution. In NVMe, the performance was much more impressive to seek latency and that was unmatched. When we later sold our machine, the supplier did not have any in stock. Only later Dell was able to introduce PowerMax or IBM, and they introduced their new solution integrating the NVMe.  

The other advantage is that HyperMetro functionality is app-specific to VMware or to the virtualized environment to have more reliability and higher capability. It is, therefore, possible to have all the data synchronized, using less storage. All the other features inside the system are very reliable and the installation time was shorter. We use less space for storage now - it decreased from two racks to only four units. That is really impressive.

We cannot complain because everything is perfect. The service is perfect. Reliability is perfect. We are very impressed with the solution we implemented.

The stability of the solution is perfect.

When we first purchased the program, the system only supported the controller but after a few months they moved from the 4 tera to the 35 tera disk. So it scaled more than eight times. Not only that, but they also released the possibility to have an external disk in NVMe. Now there's really no problem with scaling. 

The initial setup was very complex because we did not only implement virtualized environment based on an Intel operative system and Intel servers, but we also implemented the storage for IBM AS/400, which is a specific system for ERT that was not supported 100% by OceanStor. The technical team helped us to implement it and they provided support for two months afterward too.

The pricing is very competitive. At first we were cautious about the NVMe storage but the price was more competitive than other solutions. Even more, if we consider the total cost of ownership of the storage because the cost of maintenance of the all-flash storage is very little. All-flash Huawei is much cheaper than the cost of maintenance of more traditional storage solutions. 

I really do recommend this solution to others. There are very few features that are not available in this program: it has compression, it has duplication, it has a clone, it has the alternator, it has replication, it has the CAP. It has everything and very low latency, all integrated into one system. And you need only one software to manage it. It is very easy to use. My rating is ten out of ten. 

Huawei OceanStor Dorado is used for backing up data.

Most of the features which all enterprises storages solutions have are available in Huawei OceanStor Dorado.

The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface.

We have experienced some minor issues with the integration of the solution.

I have been using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for approximately two years.

Stability and reliability are the most important feature of Huawei OceanStor Dorado. It does not crash, or give any errors.

The scalability of this solution is very good.

I would rate the technical support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado a ten out of ten.

The local engineers are helpful. They go to the customers' site location to assist. Remote support is also available, but our customers prefer on-premises support.

I have used many other solutions from different vendors, such as Cisco, EMC, HP, and Dell.

The deployment of EMC is on one click. Huawei deployment is a little complex and could be simplified.

We are mostly trained in Cisco, EMC, HP, and Dell. This is why we had some problems. 

Huawei has integration tools and their support team did everything for us, it went very smoothly.

The price of the solution is reasonable. There is not a vendor that offers an All-Flash Storage Array at the price of Huawei OceanStor Dorado. The other solutions are approximately 50% higher.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado does a great job in providing all the major features other enterprise-level solutions offer but at a reduced price. It is a reliable product and you can have peace of mind.

If you have proper planning then the solution will work well. However, if the company does not want a Chinese product they do not have to purchase it.

I rate Huawei OceanStor Dorado a nine out of ten.

We primarily use it for on-premises storage.

I'm using it with VMware and then with AIX systems, AIX power systems, and VMware as the VMFS.

Overall, it works fine. 

It's really easy to use. Its interface is very good. 

The solution can scale.

The initial setup is very straightforward. 

With Huawei Durado we have some issues regarding the connectivity with the AIX system. It should have easy connectivity with the AIX, however, I've found that with AIX, it has some issues and due to this, we need to remove the exact fiber card sometimes and then plug it in again so that it can connect with the AIX systems.

IBM flash is much better than Huawei, with respect to the response time and performance.

One thing that is really a little annoying is the graphical interface regarding the performance and iOS. That is a little complicated. The GUI could be better with respect to performance.

With in-place upgrades, the data should really be right on the desktop. If you want to move to the next version of the box, for example, if I have a Durado 3000 and want to move towards a 6000 version, it should have an in-place upgrade, rather than a complete migration requirement.

I've used the solution for around two years or so.

The solution is scalable. It has two controllers and if I want to move to the next version, it's in place. However, an upgrade is not possible with Durado.

To date, we have not needed support. Fortunately, right now, there has been no hardware failure or system failure. It's been very good in terms of working without issues, therefore, I can't speak to any knowledge of how technical support works. I've never dealt with them. 

We also use IBM, and I find its performance to be better. It also has better response times. 

The initial setup is straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

The deployment process is very short. It just takes ten to 20 minutes. It's very fast. It's shouldn't take any longer than that. 

I'm already a technical person, so I don't find any difficulty with the setup process. I can handle it myself. I do not need an integrator or consultant to assist me. 

I had all the licenses initially bought. I couldn't speak to the licensing, as I have bought all the licenses initially.

I'm a customer and an end-user.

I'd recommend the solution to others. It's good storage. It is compatible with other operating systems. IBM has much better performance in the same category box, however. I rank the IBM option much higher. 

In general, I would rate this product at an eight out of ten.