We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Pure Storage FlashArray 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 has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features are the five chips architecture and the purpose-built NVMe hard disk drive. Additionally, the IOPS feature is good."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"The product offers good performance."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"The solution's pricing is its most valuable feature."
"The solution’s overall security is good."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"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."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"We need better data deduplication."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"If they implement a backup solution directly into the OceanStor then it will be a valuable feature."
"The localization problem needs to be improved."
"The price must be improved."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols"
"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."
"An area of this product that has room for improvement is the NAS capability."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE Primera. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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