Huawei OceanStor Dorado Reviews

Most of my clients are using this solution to manage their smaller storage and as a backup solution.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve the integration, there have been some compatibility issues with some operating system functions.

I have been using this solution for approximately one year.

We have not had an issue with the scalability.

The solution is scalable.

The local support has been very good.

The installation is straightforward. The team did not do a lot of training and was able to handle the installation without issues.

The price of the solution is competitive compared to others, such as Dell EMC and Hitachi. I believe the reason they are providing a discount is they want to increase their penetration into the market.

I have evaluated Dell EMC and Hitachi solutions.

I rate Huawei OceanStor Dorado a six out of ten.

My customers are using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for data storage.

easy to deploy, good price, nice features

deduplication but first,  hypermetro 

best compression , best end user interface, more easy to use.

I have been using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for a couple of years.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado is a stable solution.

The solution is scalable.

In France, we have 10 clients using this solution.

The technical support has been good.

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I am reseller for Huawei

The initial installation was straightforward.

Our IT team did the implementation of the solutions.

The implementation and maintenance are done by two technicians.

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It's not easy to receive an upgrade license of Huawei OceanStor Dorado. It's easy to buy OceanStor with several features, but when you want to add on features later it's not easy. I had some problems.

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I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Huawei OceanStor Dorado a eight out of ten.

We are an IT distributor and this is one of the storage solutions that we implement for our clients. The primary use case is for VMware virtualization, although it is also used for database system storage. Oracle and other SQL databases require a lot of performance in terms of IO per second, which is met by using OceanStore Dorado.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio. It is a very good price compared to other products and taking the performance into account, it is probably the best price-to-performance ratio on the market right now.

This solution is easy to manage and storage can be provisioned in a very easy way.

The logistics can be improved because sometimes we have to wait a long time for the product to be delivered, despite there being stores available in Europe. Some of our customers are discouraged due to this long wait time.

The marketing for this product needs to be improved because it does not have enough exposure.

This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0. However, I do not feel that this is necessary.

I have about a year and a half of experience with OceanStor Dorado.

The product is stable. We have not had any complaints about the features or stability of this solution from our customers.

I have not been in contact with technical support, and I have not heard that any of our customers have needed to contact them either.

I am also familiar with Pure Storage. They have a nice product and they concentrate only on storage solutions. It is very easy to manage, as well.

I have also worked with storage solutions by Fujitsu and HPE.

The initial setup is short and rather straightforward. One person can do it on their own.

The length of time required for deployment varies depending on how complex the environment is. For example, the simple provision of storage is very easy, but it is always connected through some kind of SAN so it can take time. However, the product itself takes an hour, at most, to deploy.

We are the distributors for this product and our resellers are the ones who do the implementation and deployment.

There are lots of features included with this solution and some of them require additional licensing, such as creating high availability storage using a cluster.

In Poland, cloud-based workloads are just starting to be adopted. For the time being, the majority of solutions are still deployed on-premises.

Overall, this is a good product that performs well and is easy to manage. Everything that is required by the market, this product already has.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

The solution is very fast, but IBM is winning at the right speed. The GUI is very simple, however, in comparison to IBM. The interface is nice and simple, as are the guides.

The speeds of the disks themselves need to be faster. The disks are not flash. When we opened our hard drive from the inclusion, I saw a converter, and it's not entirely flash.

It would be helpful in the future if they could create another solution that can manage both Huawei and non-Huawei boxes.

I can't speak to its stability. We haven't run any stability tests yet.

Technical support is very responsive. We have many products from Huawei. If something happens, we open a ticket and they assist.

The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment takes about a day.

We had a consultant assist in the implementation. We just provided the help connecting the cable and installing the rack.

I don't handle pricing, but I do believe it is less expensive than IBM.

We use a hybrid deployment model, and we're currently testing the solution.

I'd rate the solution 8.5 out of ten.

Our primary use case of this solution is for production.

The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me.

An area of this product that has room for improvement is the NAS capability.

The solution is very stable.

I am impressed by the scalability of the solution.

I've only had to use technical support a few times because the solution is very stable. They always have very good support.

We did previously use a different solution, but we switched due to Huawei's better price-performance ratio.

We used an integrator for the installation and the initial setup was really straightforward.

My advice to others would be that it's a very good product and I'm very happy with it. In the next version, it would be nice to have a converged solution for NAS and SAN. On a scale from one to 10, where one is the worst and 10 is the best, I will rate a nine, because it's a very good product and it's stable. It just lacks automation support for automation products.

We have this product deployed in our data center and are using it for DR purposes.

The most valuable feature is Snap Mirroring.

If they implement a backup solution directly into the OceanStor then it will be a valuable feature.

We have been using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for between four and five years.

This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production. We plan to continue using it.

This solution is scalable and you can expand it to petabytes. We have more than 500 users.

Huawei's technical support is very advanced. Customers can directly approach a Huawei technical person by logging a ticket and providing an email address. They will definitely respond in one or two hours.

The support is fast but the customer needs to understand what data they need for support.

We call use another storage product, the Dell EMC Unity 300.

The installation and configuration are quite simple.

The length of time required for deployment depends on your scenario. If you deploy it as a DR site, it will take between three and four hours to complete. This includes all of the features.

We implemented and deployed in-house.

Not many people are needed for deployment maintenance. A minimum of two people can deploy and manage it.

All of the brands have different architectures for licensing. Some licenses come standard with the product, whereas some you need to buy.

This product is not too expensive, and the price is competitive on the market.

For me, this is a good solution and there is no need to improve it. I recommend it to others.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We are a solution provider and the Huawei OceanStor Dorado is one of the products that we are working on for a customer. There are a lot of use cases for it, primarily in the financial and banking sectors.

The most valuable features are CDP and Metro in the Hyper applications.

The majority of our customers find this solution simple to use.

We have been dealing with Huawei for the past 10 years.

This is a stable solution.

It is very easy to scale products by Huawei.

Most of our clients who purchase this product are small and medium-sized businesses, although we do have some enterprise-level customers.

Huawei provides different types of services in our region. There are Hi-Care and Co-Care. The Hi-Care services are provided directly by Huawei, whereas Co-Care services are handled by partners. Overall, the support is fine.

I have experience with solutions from other vendors such as Dell EMC and NetApp. The initial setup is easiest with Huawei.

The initial setup is very simple. It will take only five or ten minutes for deployment and the initial tests.

My company has an in-house team that handles the implementation and services for our clients. If the client purchases a maintenance contract then we take care of that, as well.

There are some costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, depending on the requirements. Examples of these are the HyperMetro, HyperReplication, and HyperSnapshot (HyperSnap) features.

My advice to anybody who is considering OceanStor Dorado is that it is a very reliable solution with good features. It is a well-established product.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.