We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and Huawei OceanStor Dorado based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"The platform's most valuable features are reliability, intelligence, and fast performance speed."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"The most valuable feature for me is that it deduces better, whereby it can be assigned six times the usable capacity, depending on the nature of the data."
"It is very easy to use."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"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."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"It needs to improve its price."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"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."
"The built-in reporting tools need some enhancement."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."
"The solution's price could be better."
"If they implement a backup solution directly into the OceanStor then it will be a valuable feature."
"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."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe.
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