We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series 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 most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"The Dell support is helpful and the response is quick. The agents' knowledge is very good."
"With auto-tiering, it's easier to understand than most arrays, knowing that all of your writes go to the tier that you specify, with easy-to-create storage profiles."
"The solution has a wide variety of valuable features. The data progression works well. We use the snapshot functionality quite a bit and really like it."
"The interface is easy to use which makes the product user-friendly."
"A valuable feature is the performance of the auto-tiering. It will move hot data up to your fastest Tier 1 or move your slow data down. Data progression is what it's called. With the auto-tiering you can have multiple tiers, you can have your Tier 1 be either spinning or flash, all the way down to 7.2K. It will change the RAID on the fly so your writes come in at RAID 10. After they sit for a while, they get converted to RAID 5, then they'll cool off and move down the tiers. Your performance is kept going, while the cold data is moved to your slow, non-performance tiers."
"It is easy to use, expand the hard drives, add storage, and set up replication."
"The most valuable feature is the no-forklift upgrade. While the thing is running, I can change out the controllers one at a time and keep the customer up and running. I can add shelves and storage and SSD drives or spinning drives to the system, while it's running. I can bring all that in and rebalance the load across the new disks or, if we take disks away, rebalance the load across what's remaining, and it just works."
"The platform’s most valuable features are speed, accuracy, and encryption."
"The most valuable feature for me is that it deduces better, whereby it can be assigned six times the usable capacity, depending on the nature of the data."
"The solution’s overall security is good."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"The product offers good performance."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"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 integration capabilities could be improved."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"It is a bit expensive."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"The administration and support (on the way that they delivered) was a little bit slow."
"The lower model, the 3000, should have duplication. It doesn't right now. It's only from 5000 that this is offered, but it depends on the performance. It could be they don't offer it on lower models because the duplication is too much of a burden to the performance."
"In terms of additional features, I would like to see some kind of I/O meter, to indicate what we are using in terms of performance. I would like to see automation with that, where it would give me the trends. I want to know those things easily, to help me know where issues are going to occur."
"I would like to have 100% functionality through the web app."
"An issue we had was that the controller went down during an upgrade because of their upgrading the code. One side of the switch was down."
"The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series."
"While there's always room for improvement in everything, I can't really think of a specific feature of the solution that requires immediate attention."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered higher performance, at least on the back end."
"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"The solution needs to improve its integration."
"The technology and the features need improvement."
"Engineers with two to three years of experience with Huawei will find that Huawei OceanStor Dorado is a bit complicated to use compared to other Huawei storages."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve the integration, there have been some compatibility issues with some operating system functions."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"The built-in reporting tools need some enhancement."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our Dell SC Series vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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