We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage 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."Very efficient storage"
"It gives us capacity planning."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"The storage capacity efficiency is phenomenal. It is off the charts in comparison to the compression ratios that we got before. We are able to save a lot more to the device."
"The most valuable feature is InfoSight, and the ability that InfoSight gives you, from insight within your environment to what is going on at the storage layer."
"Scalability is another reason we chose to go with Nimble: upgrading to another storage array. If we need higher capacity or throughput, we can just replace controllers, we don't have to replace or forklift-upgrade the whole chassis."
"Performance, reliability, InfoSight, the ability to upgrade the O/S on the SAN without taking it down, and cost."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"It has totally taken away a layer of time and effort, management-wise, from two engineers to give that time back into developing more solutions. It has provided us essentially with a platform to go away and be more creative, knowing that that is stable and can do whatever we chuck at it."
"Nimble's support is awesome and one of the best. You sort of get a Tier 3 plus guy every time that you call, no matter if it is a Tier 0 issue. This is super helpful in case we ever have problems."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"The solution's pricing is its most valuable feature."
"The platform's most valuable features are reliability, intelligence, and fast performance speed."
"The product offers good performance."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment takes about a day."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"The majority of our customers find this solution simple to use."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"The price could be better."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"Its pricing could be better. It's expensive."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"The scalability could be better."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"They keep talking about doing one-to-many replication. This is what we'd like to see, just to help with data replication."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."
"If they implement a backup solution directly into the OceanStor then it will be a valuable feature."
"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."
"An area of this product that has room for improvement is the NAS capability."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"There are some limitations to this product because they do not have unified storage."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols"
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and HPE Primera. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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