We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and IBM FlashSystem based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, IBM FlashSystem came out ahead of Huawei OceanStor. Although both products have valuable features, our reviewers found that Huawei OceanStor has complex licensing that can make the solution too expensive and needs to improve their tech support’s communication.
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"The solution is scalable."
"Huawei OceanStor is designed with built-in high availability features, such as fault tolerance, ensuring consistent data access and minimizing downtime."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"The maintenance service and support from IBM is very good."
"Over the years, it has become increasingly user-friendly."
"The valuable features for us are the extra add-ons, such as the FIM provisioning, the compression, the disaster recovery capabilities, and the storage pooling functions."
"The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."
"The initial setup was really straightforward. It was not complex. Deployment took one month, due to the data migration duration."
"IBM's technical support do excellent work."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is SCM (Storage Class Memory), which has the lowest latency value in the storage industry."
"It's a mature product. It's like a BMW that evolves consistently."
"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 would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"The software layer has to improve."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"The management is not a good feature in all of Huawei products. It's not easy or simple. Huawei has some problems with management and handling storage information from one interface."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"AHV is Acropolis Hypervisor – A relatively new Hypervisor, robust and stable as VMware vSphere, has built-in advanced analytics and powerful operations, Self Service Portal and components for DevOps included, managed by a single pane of glass (Prism) via HTML5 and it is free of charge – That is why Nutanix is so advanced and revolutionary."
"IBM FlashSystems is lagging in optimizing storage technologies."
"The customer's expectations are what they get on the cloud, they're expecting even in the on-premises deployments, going forward."
"The Data Reduction Pools (DRP) support could be better."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"Our customers have raised concerns about the limitations of the FlashSystem 5200 and 7300, which only offer a 32-gigabyte connection."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. 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 IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE Primera, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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