We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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."Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"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 initial setup was extremely simple and straightforward."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"Nimble's support is awesome and one of the best. You sort of get a Tier 3 plus guy every time that you call, no matter if it is a Tier 0 issue. This is super helpful in case we ever have problems."
"InfoSight is a valuable feature."
"The tool’s support is feasible."
"The stability is awesome. The product has always been reliable. It has been 100 percent up. We have never had any downtime with it. Even if a controller fails due to our firmware or whatever, it rolls over to the second one and keeps us running."
"The setup was very, very simple. When we got our AF5000, no kidding, we had it up in production within two hours"
"HPE Nimble Storage uses the InfoSight platform and it is useful because we can identify the faults and can analyze the performance. It has many other features. This feature is the best that I have observed from HPE Nimble Storage."
"The solution is scalable."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"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."
"The most valuable aspects encompass a comprehensive set of common features, such as NetFlow technology, hyper-micro, and hyper-application functionalities."
"Most of the features which all enterprises storages solutions have are available in Huawei OceanStor Dorado."
"The solution’s overall security is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"The product offers good performance."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"Every time I think of something that needs to improve, they're one step ahead, which I love. The only area I wish to see improve, I believe is coming, is in the FlashBlade product. Blade implementation fell short on a few of the services."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"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."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"The scalability could be better."
"The way the market is going, supporting NVMe storage would be useful as a step up."
"It was a bit expensive."
"The solution that I have is a hybrid, not a full flash. The hybrid version could be improved."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols"
"There are some limitations to this product because they do not have unified storage."
"The price must be improved."
"The data compression and deduplication ratio of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is not as good as other solutions, such as EMC and Pure Storage. It is important when looking at capacity effectiveness."
"The technology and the features need improvement."
"I would like to see them improve their IOPS per second to match their contemporaries in the industry."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"It should have easy connectivity with the AIX, however, I've found that with AIX, it has some issues and due to this, we need to remove the exact fiber card sometimes and then plug it in again so that it can connect with the AIX systems."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell Unity XT. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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