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.
"The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and 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."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"The initial setup was extremely simple and straightforward."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"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."
"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 pricing is very reasonable."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"The solution is scalable."
"Great value for money."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"Technical support is good."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"The software layer has to improve."
"We need better data deduplication."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"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."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
"The price could be better. It's not good for the Brazilian market."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"The price could be better."
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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