We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT 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 reliability is very good."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"We can get almost real-time response times."
"The inline deduplication and data reduction capabilities have been the most valuable."
"A lot of the Unisphere interfaces are greatly improved in terms of monitoring capabilities, alerting, and ease of use. Setting up the storage and the file system are all just a few clicks away."
"The NAS is also extremely easy to set up."
"Compared to older generations of arrays there is quite an improvement, compared to the older VNXs, for example. It depends on you use it, but for our purposes, we find Unity simple to use."
"Its most valuable feature is the storage alarm."
"Inline data reduction is pretty impressive."
"Its quick integration with VMware. The ability to stand up a data store in one place, where you don't have to go and rescan for the data store through the vCenter Client, as well as SMB shares. This ended up being a big selling point for us."
"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."
"We can use Huawei OceanStor Dorado capacity storage for many different purposes."
"The most valuable aspects encompass a comprehensive set of common features, such as NetFlow technology, hyper-micro, and hyper-application functionalities."
"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."
"The most valuable features are the five chips architecture and the purpose-built NVMe hard disk drive. Additionally, the IOPS feature is good."
"The solution is scalable."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"The installation and management are very easy."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"The initial setup is not so straightforward if you don't have experience with storage arrays."
"They should update to the cloud."
"The support portal needs fixing. Accessing a service request on the support portal seems to be a bit difficult, as opposed to just calling the 800 number."
"Software updates have to be downloaded to the root of the device. This pushes the available space to 95% utilization."
"The user interface could be improved. The Dell Compellent user interface is fantastic, but the Unity user interface is, in comparison, pretty lousy. It's functional, and I can do what I need, but the Dell Compellent user interface is so much more intuitive and user-friendly."
"Firmware Upgrades in EMC Unity require you to manually download OS and Drive firmware, this should be integrated (Nimble does this). When you order an EMC Unity, you have to specify the block size. This is weird for me and even weirder that you cannot change this afterwards, you should be able to specify per LUN/datastore (Nimble does this as well)."
"It would be nice to have been able to easily move off our old VNX system to this system. The process is very manual."
"Stability is the problem. We've had stability issues with it. We've had problems with the iSCSI interface. We've had it for two years now and for two years we've had problems where a service processor will drop, we'll lose connectivity to LUNs, we'll lose connectivity to the storage, issues like that. No matter how we've tried to chase it down, everybody just points fingers at each other. The only thing that changed in our environment was that the Unity solution was installed."
"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."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0."
"The product could always be faster."
"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."
"The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface."
"The solution's price could be better."
"The technology and the features need improvement."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 188 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Dell SC Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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