We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Pure Storage FlashArray 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 reliability."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"We're able to get higher-density workloads on the same infrastructure, and we have a smaller physical footprint. The performance is excellent – during our test the bottlenecks are never on the X array, it just keeps picking up the pace to match what you need. The real-time visibility is a differentiator in my opinion."
"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 solution is very straightforward to set up."
"The initial setup was extremely simple and straightforward."
"The solution is scalable."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The product offers good performance."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"The customer support is helpful."
"The solution's pricing is its most valuable feature."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"The solution’s overall security is good."
"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."
"The platform’s most valuable features are speed, accuracy, and encryption."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"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 the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"The software layer has to improve."
"It is on the expensive side."
"The solution needs to improve its integration."
"For future releases, it would be beneficial for OceanStor Dorado to integrate advanced analytics and AI-driven functionalities for predictive maintenance and performance optimization."
"The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"The price must be improved."
"The data compression and deduplication ratio of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is not as good as other solutions, such as EMC and Pure Storage. It is important when looking at capacity effectiveness."
"The speeds of the disks themselves need to be faster. The disks are not flash. When we opened our hard drive from the inclusion, I saw a converter, and it's not entirely flash."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and HPE Primera, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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