We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe 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."Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"Dell PowerMax NVMe's tech support is good."
"It has dramatically cut down the footprint in our data center and reduced the amount of raw disk capacity that we needed to purchase."
"We removed the need to observe whether we ran into issues with the performance of disks or number of IOPS. Previously, our Oracle Database would throw us performance errors. Now, with PowerMax, everything runs smoothly."
"The speed and the compatible interface with IBM are the most valuable features of the PowerMax product."
"The PowerMax software and CloudIQ let us get an inside view of our compression and compaction, as well as our usage of the storage."
"It significantly simplifies storage."
"The SRDF site-to-site replication for the volumes is the most important feature for us. That enables us to do site recovery and replication for our VMware infrastructure."
"It offers a high level of availability, so pretty much near zero downtime."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"The pricing is very reasonable."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"Huawei OceanStor has the capability of SSDs, high-performance disks, and higher disk support."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"The solution is not cheap."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"Firmware updates are a bit painful because you have to involve their support, as opposed to having the ability to do it yourself."
"The GUI interface is very complicated and could be improved by streamlining the number of steps in the process."
"We would like more documentation, a guide to the features of the PowerMax."
"Some of the management features could be simplified and that's probably the main thing they need to address."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"They can make the GUI better, especially for the ones that come out of the box. We did encounter a bit of difficulty in setting up the storage. We had to deploy Solutions Enabler on a Linux machine to be able to fully interact with the storage. They need to upgrade the web interface for the management of the storage that comes out of the box. The management interface for NFS is also a bit old and not very intuitive."
"The initial setup was a little bit complicated."
"The tool needs to improve its performance. Today's applications are demanding a response rate of one millisecond or below. The product should also look into AI integration."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"We did experience a little latency with this solution."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"The management is not a good feature in all of Huawei products. It's not easy or simple. Huawei has some problems with management and handling storage information from one interface."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"The deployment took a little longer."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Hitachi VSP 5000 Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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