We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and Huawei OceanStor 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."Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes."
"The compression is excellent."
"It has its own file formatting protocol, which saves a lot of space."
"The solution's technical support is excellent. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"It is a stable solution."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"Great value for money."
"This is a stable storage system."
"Huawei OceanStor has the capability of SSDs, high-performance disks, and higher disk support."
"Huawei OceanStor is a good product. Its interface is very simple. The complexities we encounter with recovery points are gone. We just attach to remote storage, click the application, and it starts."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"The NAS part is very poor. It's very basic. Even Dell EMC has said that to us. We are waiting for version 3 of PowerStore for that. This must be improved and it is in the roadmap."
"The support team doesn't always provide adequate assistance. So, there is room for improvement in the support."
"When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"PowerStore's management console could be improved."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"CFS integration is one area where OceanStor has some room for improvement. The CFS on OceanStor is dedicated, so it's not integrated with the existing active directory domain."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"The product must improve the local technical support in China."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 47 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF and Dell XtremIO, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and HPE Primera. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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