We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor 9000 and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The storage capacity is really one of the most valuable features. Also, the GUI is very friendly and the switches gives high performance. The technology used in storage is RAID which as helped us a lot to expand and store various items ."
"It has many options for scalability, and it is stable."
"It is simple to make an update."
"The speed and the ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"The FlashSystem 900 consistently delivers performance below 1ms for read/write. This performance is essential for an effective SVC stretch-cluster configuration across two datacenters, and presenting active-active storage to the customer."
"The valuable features for us are the extra add-ons, such as the FIM provisioning, the compression, the disaster recovery capabilities, and the storage pooling functions."
"I like most of the features. Its speed, performance, and availability are valuable. We are implementing the data reduction technology the most."
"One of the valuable features is the performance, it is one of the best in the market."
"This solution is really user friendly. It also offers good performance and is highly reliable."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"The call charges and the management cost should be more friendly. They can also include monitoring and management."
"The handling of data deletion and bulk servers setup could have been more straightforward and easier when dealing with data removal or setting up servers. I believe Huawei could enhance their solutions, especially managing storage, to provide a better experience for customers."
"If you want to expand, you cannot expand the disc enclosure. You have to buy a total individual node. Sometimes, this is difficult because we are just looking for capacity and not a node."
"The solution is not easy to implement. It takes a lot of time to study the product and it's a little complicated in general."
"The storage capacity of this solution could be improved."
"I think the only thing the developers can look at, is that it is limited to 25 gigabytes currently. In the next release they might want to increase that."
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"I have looked at a few pages of a report I download and I saw a graph there regarding software-defined vendors. IBM is not in a good position on this graph. I know that they are working very hard on this, to make it much better and to get to a level where it's not only hardware but also software to provide a complete solution."
"The GUI for monitoring performance metrics could provide better visibility. For example, it doesn't let me segregate the IOPS per volume."
Huawei OceanStor 9000 is ranked 11th in NAS with 2 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews. Huawei OceanStor 9000 is rated 8.6, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor 9000 writes "An entry-level, flash-based storage system designed for enterprise-class applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Huawei OceanStor 9000 is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp FAS Series and Qumulo, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Huawei OceanStor 9000 vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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