We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and Huawei OceanStor 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."Technical support has been amazing."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"One of the most valuable features is the capability to switch between all-flash to hybrid, which have have actually done for one of our arrays. We started with the hybrid, with the limited if I'm not mistaken, and then over a period of time, we swapped all the hybrids with the SSDs. This was one of the big features because it gave us the capability to not stick with just one kind of media. Secondly, since it has sorted clustering, we were able to bring in the newer boxes and have it all clustered together. These were the two main features that we really looked into, which benefited our use case from an expansion/growth perspective. Another valuable feature is the ease of management."
"The Dell support is helpful and the response is quick. The agents' knowledge is very good."
"There's some new stuff coming with 7.3, which just got released, where they're spreading the sparing across the whole array, rather than having a dedicated spare disk, and have it sit there and do nothing until one of them dies, and then it kicks in - and having to rebuild all of that. Now, they'll do the sparing across all the disks and they say that is going to add not only space but performance to the array, with 7.3."
"Easy management of volumes: You can create volumes and easily assign them to VMware clusters, increasing their size."
"Technical support is very good. I do use it from time to time and it's always excellent."
"The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"Huawei OceanStor is a good product. Its interface is very simple. The complexities we encounter with recovery points are gone. We just attach to remote storage, click the application, and it starts."
"It is a highly available product."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"Great value for money."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"The price should be lower."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"Dell could improve the upgrading process."
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"Overall, I'd like to see more synergy between Dell EMC's higher-tier platforms and their mid-tier platforms. What I have said, constantly, to my partners at Dell EMC is that the clear articulation of the path is really important to us. In that vein, what I'd also like to see is, with the migration strategy that's built into this product, a lot more attention paid to Dell's - in particular - legacy platforms and how we get from some of our legacy EMC platforms onto this platform with a straight-through migration and scaling strategy, not host-based migrations and not piecemeal... Dell EMC would do well to focus more on my ability to skip a generation, rather than having me take individual hops because I can't greenfield my way into a software-defined data center fast enough. This journey of multiple hops is not helpful."
"Licensing, especially on the storage line, could use some simplification. It's not terrible, but, for example, with the Isilon series, they've gone to completely a la carte. A la carte is very difficult to traverse, as to what you need. It would be more beneficial, at least from my point of view as a customer, if they did it more like car companies do, where there are package lines"
"The connection should be better integrated with the network to offer a better view of the system."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and should be made simpler to do."
"Technical support should respond more quickly because the turnaround time is very high."
"Compellent comes in the form of a component that's not true of a unified storage platform."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"CFS integration is one area where OceanStor has some room for improvement. The CFS on OceanStor is dedicated, so it's not integrated with the existing active directory domain."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, HPE Nimble Storage and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series. See our Dell SC Series vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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