We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The performance is very good."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The solution’s overall security is good."
"The product offers good performance."
"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."
"I've been satisfied with the level of attention I'm given when I reach out to technical support."
"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."
"Most of the features which all enterprises storages solutions have are available in Huawei OceanStor Dorado."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"We can use Huawei OceanStor Dorado capacity storage for many different purposes."
"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"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."
"It needs to improve its price."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"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."
"Automation could be simplified."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"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."
"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."
"The technology and the features need improvement."
"In additional features, it would be easier to do snapshots on a regular basis. So, like, a new feature that would allow you to take snapshots every hour."
"I would like to see them improve their IOPS per second to match their contemporaries in the industry."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"It would be great if it could emulate some of the features that their competitor VMware has, for example port mirroring or Netflow output at hypervisor level."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
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Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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