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Executive Summary
Updated on Mar 1, 2023

We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and Huawei OceanStor Dorado based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Ease of Deployment: Setting up Huawei OceanStor is an easy and fast process. The deployment of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is straightforward but several users without prior preparation have experienced complications.
  • Features: Huawei OceanStor is a scalable product with valuable management, data performance, bandwidth, hybrid applications and storage, and availability features. It needs to integrate better and improve its user interface and configuration. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is easy to use and has valuable capacity storage, deduplication, deduction, and compression features. The drawbacks of the solution include its integration, IOPS, and user interface.
  • Pricing: Users' opinions about Huawei OceanStor’s price vary, but most agree that its licensing is complex and can make the product too expensive. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is reasonably priced and even cheap, according to multiple reviewers.

  • Service and Support: Huawei OceanStor's support is good but the communication process could be improved. The support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado is very good.

Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Huawei OceanStor Dorado came out ahead of Huawei OceanStor. Although the two products have straightforward deployment and multiple valuable features, our reviewers found Huawei OceanStor more expensive and that it needs to improve its technical support.

To learn more, read our detailed Huawei OceanStor vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides.""Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation.""It worked flawlessly.""We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks.""Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer.""It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity.""We have tons of capacity on it.""It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."

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"The pricing is very reasonable.""The initial setup was straightforward.""The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance.""The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations.""Great value for money.""We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly.""The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications.""This is a stable storage system."

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"The most valuable features of the solution are SmartMigration, HyperReplication, HyperSnap, HyperCopy, HyperClone, SmartPartition, and SmartCache.""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 most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio.""There are plenty of features available in this solution.""The initial setup is very straightforward.""The solution’s overall security is good.""Most of the features which all enterprises storages solutions have are available in Huawei OceanStor Dorado.""The majority of our customers find this solution simple to use."

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Cons
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included.""I would like to have support available in Spanish.""I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works.""I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable.""From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable.""There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there.""Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI.""The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."

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"The technical support has been a let down for us. It's something the company has to work on. We haven't been satisfied with their level of service.""Huawei is not that cheap.""The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well.""I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined.""The security could be a bit more robust.""I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions.""The product must improve the local technical support in China.""The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."

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"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release.""The localization problem needs to be improved.""This solution can improve by providing easier migrations and better Metro features.""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.""One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process.""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.""Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols"

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We feel that the pricing is fair and the licensing process was easy for both."
  • "There is always room for negotiation."
  • "The price was slightly higher than others, but competitive, if you consider all the other features that you get from it."
  • "It is a more expensive solution, but it is worth it. You are getting what you paid for."
  • "For pricing, you have to take into account their performance on deduplication and compression in a $/GB comparison."
  • "We have seen a reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO)."
  • "It is a cheaper solution."
  • "Pure Storage is all-flash, so this sometimes tends to make it a bit more expensive in the beginning."
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  • "This product value matches its price."
  • "It's roughly affordable."
  • "Pricing is very fair."
  • "Huawei OceanStor is priced very well but is a bit complicated."
  • "The price of the solution could be less expensive. However, there are not any licensing costs."
  • "We pay a monthly licensing fee for this solution. The price could be less expensive."
  • "The pricing depends on the features the customer wants, such as storage, RAM, and processors, but in general, Huawei is much cheaper compared to Dell and Cisco."
  • "The price of Huawei OceanStor should be less expensive. It is expensive at the moment."
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  • "The pricing is very competitive."
  • "There are lots of features included with this solution and some of them require additional licensing, such as creating high availability storage using a cluster."
  • "There are some costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, depending on the requirements."
  • "This product is not too expensive, and the price is competitive on the market."
  • "We usually recommend our customers choose advanced licensing and enterprise companies are more inclined to choose this solution because it is more cost-effective than competitors."
  • "The price of the solution is competitive compared to others, such as Dell EMC and Hitachi. I believe the reason they are providing a discount is they want to increase their penetration into the market."
  • "Huawei has very good pricing. They have some promotions that can be taken advantage of at certain times of the year, such as the end of December. They are providing aggressive pricing. In the Pakistan market, they are ready to beat any vendor in Pakistan because they want to grab the market."
  • "The price of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is very inexpensive, it cost approximately $5 per gigabyte."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Both are great platforms, but if you are considering all flash solutions, I would recommend you to consider Pure… more »
    Top Answer:We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression.
    Top Answer:We have customers who use a three-year or five-year license. We also have customers who use Evergreen.
    Top Answer:The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved. We must be able to keep the snapshots for a specific… more »
    Top Answer:The product has the best compression and encryption features. The most valuable features I have found in the tool are… more »
    Top Answer:The pricing is not cheap, but it's attractive. And the pricing is flexible, too. I would rate the pricing an eight out… more »
    Top Answer:The solution needs to improve its integration.
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    Also Known As
    OceanStor Dorado V3 All-Flash Storage System, OceanStor 18000 V3 Series Storage Systems, OceanStor 6800 V3 Storage System
    OceanStor Dorado V3 All-Flash Storage System
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    Overview

    Pure Storage FlashArray is the world’s first enterprise-class storage array that runs exclusively on the nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) protocol for memory access and storage. It represents a totally state-of-the-art type of storage technology. It offers users shared accelerated storage that delivers cutting-edge features in the realms of performance, simplicity, and consolidation. Pure Storage is fresh and modern today and will be for the next decade. Without forklift upgrades or planned downtime, Pure Storage takes the work out of storage ownership and delivers unprecedented customer satisfaction.

    Pure Storage FlashArray is built with simplicity and reliability in mind. The solution can be implemented and optimized in hours, as opposed to other similar solutions that can take days. It has no moving parts, which removes areas where it could potentially be vulnerable to suffering errors. It is highly stable and gives users the ability to manage system shutdowns in a way that  prevents data loss.

    Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray

    Some of the benefits of using Pure Storage FlashArray include:

    • A much higher level of speed than similar pieces of technology. Pure Storage FlashArray maximizes the speed at which data can be transferred while at the same time minimizing system latencies that might slow the transfer down. Additionally, it offers users quick memory read and data access speeds.

    • A higher bang for your buck in terms of the storage capabilities you get for the money you pay. They are smaller in size than more standard storage technologies, but they offer flash memory, which enables users to store larger amounts of data than the current standard.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Pure Storage FlashArray is a highly effective piece of storage technology which stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its overall robustness and the value that it offers by way of its reliability and ease of use. It provides users with many valuable features that allow them to maximize what they can do with this solution. Pure Storage FlashArray’s reliability and ease of use make it a highly valuable solution. 

    PeerSpot user Prabakaran K., a technical consultant at Injazat Data Systems, notes the robustness of this solution when he writes, "FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."

    PeerSpot user Jason D., a cloud solutions architect at a tech services company, notes three features that make this solution valuable when he writes, "We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."

    OceanStor Dorado V3 is the industry's first all-flash storage that puts NVMe into commercial use. It is specially designed for enterprises' mission-critical businesses, meeting the most-demanding performance and reliability requirements of databases, VDI, server virtualization, and SAP HANA.

    Huawei's OceanStor Dorado V3 all-flash storage is the ideal choice for enterprises' mission-critical business. It is the industry's first commercial use of NVMe all-flash storage, and it delivers high-performing, reliable, and efficient storage services.

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    Buyer's Guide
    Huawei OceanStor vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Huawei OceanStor vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and DDN SFA7990X, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Primera. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.

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