We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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 mobile app is very helpful."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"I have found the most valuable part of Dell PowerStore is the price."
"It has its own file formatting protocol, which saves a lot of space."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"The simplicity and ease of use have been very valuable features. I have a very small team, and only half of the team is well versed in the HP product. Whereas if I bring PowerStore in, everyone can learn it because it will be new on the floor."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"Dell EMC PowerStore is scalable."
"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."
"Two things really stand out for me. First, there's group cloning, which is very nice. It simplifies managing multiple clones across the group. Second, Huawei's multi-controller architecture with load balancing is a good part."
"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"The performance is good."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"The solution's pricing is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"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."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"The solution is not cheap."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"We are happy with the service in general. The only thing would be the price of the platform."
"It needs more mature code."
"The solution only does thin provisioning."
"Data reduction needs improvement."
"The support is not very good."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"The solution's price could be better."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0."
"I would like to see them improve their IOPS per second to match their contemporaries in the industry."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"An area of this product that has room for improvement is the NAS capability."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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 Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Primera. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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