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."Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"Has a great mapping feature."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"A particularly valuable feature is its simplicity."
"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."
"The supportability of SCME drives for faster data access from the PowerStore and is the most valuable feature."
"Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"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."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"If your virtual machine that resides on it completely fills the storage space, thanks to it's built-in function of all-zero data space reclamation, you just have to ask to System Engineer to run a zero-free on hosts (thin provisioned) and you will get more space instantaneously."
"It is a highly available product."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"We need better data deduplication."
"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."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"We would consider this solution if the pricing is competitive with other options, as it offers a very good solution. However, the current price is slightly higher than the competition."
"We are looking for the Dell PowerStore to become more mature to maximize our use cases."
"When it comes to Dell PowerStore, I would like to see more integration and more security features included. It's unfortunate that the solution does not feature Flash trace."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"The product must improve the local technical support in China."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
"The price could be better. It's not good for the Brazilian market."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
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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