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."Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"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 solution is very straightforward to set up."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"Has a great mapping feature."
"The way you're able to manage all your PowerStores as one solution is very good for us. PowerStore enables you to federate or cluster multiple appliances with automated load balancing. In terms of management, it's helpful that we can do it from a single interface where we're able to manage multiple PowerStores. When you have multiple PowerStores it works intelligently by running the workloads based on the needs of the infrastructure."
"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."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"The most valuable feature of the solution for me is the deduplication part, especially since most of the servers in our organization are Windows-based servers."
"Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"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's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"The software layer has to improve."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"We need better data deduplication."
"Could use some additional automation."
"Reporting is an area that could be improved. It's very simplistic sometimes, and some of the very technical guys on my team want to see more of the details and be able to massage the report a little bit better."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"While using Dell PowerStore's interface in our organization, we sometimes miss out on some information."
"When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements."
"PowerStore's management console could be improved."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"The technical support has been a let down for us. It's something the company has to work on. We haven't been satisfied with their level of service."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"The management is not a good feature in all of Huawei products. It's not easy or simple. Huawei has some problems with management and handling storage information from one interface."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 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, Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF 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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