We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and Huawei OceanStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"The solution is scalable."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"The latency is good."
"It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The most valuable features of Dell PowerStore are the support for NVMe and SCM, which provides end-to-end performance and high IOPS, minimizing latency. It is a full-fledged storage solution."
"It is very easy to use. Access is very friendly. It shows you a lot of important information at the first glance. It has been very easy to use."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes."
"I have found the most valuable part of Dell PowerStore is the price."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"Dell EMC PowerStore is scalable."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"The solution is scalable."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The solution is easy to use."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"It is on the expensive side."
"We need better data deduplication."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"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."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"The pricing could be lower. It is very expensive."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"Dell PowerStore is a good solution overall, but some models could support hypervisors better by allowing for more customization and flexibility for customer needs."
"I would like to see a Snapshot feature. Currently, it is unable to occupy the capacity."
"The upgrades themselves are running fine, but after the upgrade is when we have a problem. With the update to 1.4, we had a head crash. They told us, 'This is a known issue. Please upgrade to 2.' We upgraded to 2 and, one week later they told us, 'Yeah, there are some issues in 2.0.0. You can lose data. Please upgrade to 2.0.1.' Overall, they need to make the system stable."
"When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements."
"I have not seen anything specific. The only thing I can think of that needs improvement is the price."
"Data reduction needs improvement."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"The product must improve the local technical support in China."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 47 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray and Dell XtremIO, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and HPE Primera. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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