We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and Pure Storage FlashArray based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Pure Storage FlashArray came out ahead of Huawei OceanStor. Even though both products were described as easy to deploy and with valuable features, Huawei OceanStor has a complex licensing model and needs better communication for effective technical support.
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The solution is scalable."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"The support is excellent."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"We need better data deduplication."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"Right now, the box itself is just strictly working as a backend storage system. It would be fantastic if we could access it directly like a NAS device through network access or SIS drives. I think they have an interface, but I am not sure how good it is. If we could address a box directly on the network without having to go through a server, it would be great. The replication schemas could be improved. We are not using replication on the storage level right now. We use a different type of replication. If their replication would be as good as the one that we have, I would probably run the replication schema because it might be faster, but I don't know that for a fact. So, I cannot say that they have good replication. All I can say is that they need to inform us better."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"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."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"The product must improve the local technical support in China."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
"The solution’s reporting could be improved."
"The price could be better. It's not good for the Brazilian market."
"The technical support has been a let down for us. It's something the company has to work on. We haven't been satisfied with their level of service."
"The price should be lower."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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