We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."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."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"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."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The initial setup was extremely simple and straightforward."
"The majority of our customers find this solution simple to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SmartMigration, HyperReplication, HyperSnap, HyperCopy, HyperClone, SmartPartition, and SmartCache."
"Two things really stand out for me. First, there's group cloning, which is very nice. It simplifies managing multiple clones across the group. Second, Huawei's multi-controller architecture with load balancing is a good part."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"The platform’s most valuable features are speed, accuracy, and encryption."
"The performance is good."
"The product offers good performance."
"The integrated Huawei Flash technology within OceanStor Dorado stands out as one of the most valuable features."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The stability, speed, and reliability are the solution's best features. The information is also very secure."
"The main advantage of this solution is performance."
"The hardware and software of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy for us to use."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"We need better data deduplication."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"The software layer has to improve."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"The price must be improved."
"An area of this product that has room for improvement is the NAS capability."
"For future releases, it would be beneficial for OceanStor Dorado to integrate advanced analytics and AI-driven functionalities for predictive maintenance and performance optimization."
"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."
"The solution's price could be better."
"In additional features, it would be easier to do snapshots on a regular basis. So, like, a new feature that would allow you to take snapshots every hour."
"There are some limitations to this product because they do not have unified storage."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
"The pricing could be cheaper and it should have documentation in more languages, specifically, Russian."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate data between All Flash and other NetApp storage systems."
"The solution's technical support is not as good as it is supposed to be since you have to push them to get support."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"We need a center related to NetApp in Egypt so that we can deal with them directly."
"The price of the All Flash solution is very high."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
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Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem and NetApp AFF, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, HPE Primera and IBM FlashSystem. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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