We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage 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 standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"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."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"The quality of the service and management tools let us make contractual guarantees for storage performance for customers. That's something we couldn't do before."
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"HPE Nimble Storage uses the InfoSight platform and it is useful because we can identify the faults and can analyze the performance. It has many other features. This feature is the best that I have observed from HPE Nimble Storage."
"The performance and the processor are good."
"The fact that you can manage the requirements is one the most valuable features of HPE Nimble Storage. The other is the rapid deployment time."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"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 stable."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"The pricing is very reasonable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"The software layer has to improve."
"We need better data deduplication."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"We have had some stability issues with one array which has happened twice during subsequent software updates but is due to a bad Postgres database."
"The stability can be improved."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"HPE Nimble Storage should improve its latency. It is expensive."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"I really would like to see synchronous replication. This is something that when we have multiple arrays in our environment and being able to do something like a zero RPO."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"The solution could reduce its price."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera and VMware vSAN, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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