We performed a comparison between HPE Primera 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."One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"HPE Primera is stable."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"Primera's main advantage is its support for NVM drives and normal flash drives. It has some sort of AI analysis that automatically tells us how to optimize the performance."
"The greatest advantage is the support when we encounter incidents, as HPE's support is highly responsive."
"It is a stable and scalable solution with quick and efficient storage capability."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of deployment."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It is stable and reliable."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"The solution is scalable."
"Great value for money."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"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."
"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."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"The product’s price needs improvement."
"Only HPE can manage the product."
"There are certain features that require engineering-level access, which should be accessible to storage admins as well."
"We have not had a good experience with support from HPE Primera. They can improve."
"On the hardware side, you should have the ability to expand capacity to larger numbers."
"The cost of HPE Primera could be lower."
"Like most storage, we want to see flash become more and more stable. Like any flash that uses MLC or TLC techniques, over time, the more writes you have, the less usable the storage becomes. They try to plan for this and have a lot of extra space in the arrays, but over time, their performance does degrade. This is true for any flash storage."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"Huawei OceanStor should work on its saturation level and should be able to take up more load. It should give the same performance that it gives at 20 or 30 percent load for 80 percent as well."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"We did experience a little latency with this solution."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and NetApp NVMe AFF A800, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE Nimble Storage. See our HPE Primera vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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