We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Dell Unity XT came out ahead of Huawei OceanStor. Both products have similar deployment difficulty and support quality, but Huawei OceanStor has more features that need improvement and can get expensive, depending on the chosen licensing.
"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"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 has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"Dell EMC Unity XT has good integration with VMware."
"The solution allows for easy, useful replication with good features for VPLEX and VIVO."
"We use it to implement all our VDI solutions."
"The most valuable aspects of this solution are its stability, performance, and ease of updating."
"The all-flash feature is really boosting up the VMware. It is helping our virtual machines to perform better."
"The multiprotocol support. It's supporting NFS, fiber channel, CIFS, and these kinds of things. The multiprotocol is very attractive."
"It's easy to manage. We access it and manage it through Unisphere and have had no issues. We're able to provision storage, create consistency groups, create RDMs for our virtual machines. Creating it through Unisphere, it automatically adds the data store on the VMware side and rescans the LUNS. We just have to add and configure the storage in one place and it takes care of everything, which is very handy."
"It is scalable, and we usually recommend Dell Unity XT to small and medium companies."
"If your virtual machine that resides on it completely fills the storage space, thanks to it's built-in function of all-zero data space reclamation, you just have to ask to System Engineer to run a zero-free on hosts (thin provisioned) and you will get more space instantaneously."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"Great value for money."
"Huawei OceanStor is designed with built-in high availability features, such as fault tolerance, ensuring consistent data access and minimizing downtime."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"The software layer has to improve."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"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."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"Recently, they released products, sometimes without proper testing, it seems."
"Licensing costs could be reduced."
"I would like to have secure mobile connectivity going forward. This would help me be more proactive."
"One area of improvement is replication. We are also using Oracle virtual machines, and when you are using systems from other vendors, the process of replicating from Unity through OLVM is more laborious than when we were using VPLEX."
"This is a tier-three solution and it gives us what we need for archiving and backups."
"The user interface could be improved. The Dell Compellent user interface is fantastic, but the Unity user interface is, in comparison, pretty lousy. It's functional, and I can do what I need, but the Dell Compellent user interface is so much more intuitive and user-friendly."
"We cannot connect directly with Dell due to sanctions."
"It is expensive, and the pricing could be better."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 189 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem and HPE Primera. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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