We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor 9000 and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The storage capacity is really one of the most valuable features. Also, the GUI is very friendly and the switches gives high performance. The technology used in storage is RAID which as helped us a lot to expand and store various items ."
"It has many options for scalability, and it is stable."
"IBM FlashSystem is a flexible solution with plenty of features."
"User friendly management interface."
"The performance of IBM FlashSystem is very good. The new technology and high throughput have given us more confidence in the solution. The management of the system has improved and we can control the monitoring system alerts and multiple FlashSystems with the Enterprise Cloud Edition, which is free. The migration of recently stored data to a new flash is much easier. You can move your data because you can utilize it externally."
"One of the valuable features is the performance, it is one of the best in the market."
"High availability and enhanced security; Proven dependability; Data compression with hardware acceleration; Advanced copy services features are all in this product."
"Data deduplication is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, which together, enable you to have more space."
"The performance monitoring feature is useful as it can report in 15 minute intervals by hour, day, week, month, or by a custom date range."
"The call charges and the management cost should be more friendly. They can also include monitoring and management."
"The handling of data deletion and bulk servers setup could have been more straightforward and easier when dealing with data removal or setting up servers. I believe Huawei could enhance their solutions, especially managing storage, to provide a better experience for customers."
"The pricing needs to be more competitive."
"Events/log analysis tools."
"Our model does not support compression or deduplication."
"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."
"I have looked at a few pages of a report I download and I saw a graph there regarding software-defined vendors. IBM is not in a good position on this graph. I know that they are working very hard on this, to make it much better and to get to a level where it's not only hardware but also software to provide a complete solution."
"Replication features need improvement. Currently, they are there in the product, but I'm not sure as to how it works exactly."
"They don't offer subscription-based payments."
"The solution's pricing is a bit high so there is room for improvement."
Huawei OceanStor 9000 is ranked 11th in NAS with 2 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews. Huawei OceanStor 9000 is rated 8.6, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor 9000 writes "An entry-level, flash-based storage system designed for enterprise-class applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Huawei OceanStor 9000 is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp FAS Series and Qumulo, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Huawei OceanStor 9000 vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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