We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series 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."The latency is good."
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"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."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
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"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"OceanStor can be used as NAS and SAN storage at the same time, with both file and block features in the same box."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"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."
"The support is excellent."
"Scalable and stable storage array."
"The product’s quality of service guarantees the performance of each workload."
"We are satisfied with the stability."
"The price of this solution is good."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is its ability to store data well."
"The value we derive from using it is greater than other alternatives like HPE and Dell."
"The FlexClone feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is its capability to tier to the cloud, such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. Additionally, the integration is good and they are user-friendly."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"It is on the expensive side."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"The software layer has to improve."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"We need better data deduplication."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"The technical support has been a let down for us. It's something the company has to work on. We haven't been satisfied with their level of service."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"The solution’s reporting could be improved."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"The Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series was very hard to configure. Installation of the product was very hard. These are its areas for improvement."
"The solution should change the licensing model and allow customers to choose features based on their requirements."
"It takes a very long time to enter the management console, as well as to restart the system, and these are things that should be improved."
"Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series could improve by having a snapshot feature. Additionally, there can be other features added to help restore the data faster."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I would rate the support of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series a four out of five."
"The solution needs a simpler licensing theme around the DM series. The problem is if you only need one of the features, you still have to buy the whole thing. The licensing needs to be more granular or flexible so you have the option to only license FlexCone or Inline Compression features."
"Many people do not realize that Lenovo has a storage solution, so better marketing from the vendor is needed."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews while Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is ranked 21st in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series writes "Simple deployment, stores data well, but missing features". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, whereas Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is most compared with NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore and HPE Primera. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series report.
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