We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor 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, Dell Unity XT came out ahead of Huawei OceanStor. Both products have similar deployment difficulty and support quality, but Huawei OceanStor has more features that need improvement and can get expensive, depending on the chosen licensing.
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"It simplifies storage."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"The solution is very reliable."
"I like how it separates the iSCSI drives from the standard shares. It has two different routes to it. I know most of the other solutions do this, but I just like the way that Dell EMC does it."
"The valuable features of Unity include that it's flexible, has a friendly user-interface, and provides good performance."
"The setup and installation procedures are easy."
"The storage management is superb, with a user-friendly graphical interface and dashboards. The performance is good. The integration, dashboards, and analytics are excellent. It gives me immediate output and quick access to the reports I need promptly. It's an excellent product with high stability. The solution is scalable. The support team is highly supportive, responsive, and efficient in providing solutions. This product is highly useful and well-suited for all types of automation."
"We have simplified it down to where we're using one storage pool inside the Unity, whereas on the VNX, we had multiple storage pools. This has simplified that aspect for us. It would depend on each organization. We're heavy into VMware and this ties into it so simply. It's made it a lot easier for us. I create a datastore inside Unity, it just shows up in VMware. I love that tie-in."
"VMware integration makes the life of our engineers easier, as we are almost 100% virtualized and this feature is used on a daily basis."
"The All-Flash models are pretty fast for the vast majority of our remote workloads."
"This solution makes it easy to manage storage, provision new workloads, and scale-up."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"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."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"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."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"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."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"What I'd like to see is a little more detail on the networking side. I can go into where it's showing me the replication, but when I go into the network it just gives me broad-based information. I don't know which replication job is actually feeding it. I have to go in and rely on other apps."
"I have a problem because between the Unity XT and the PowerMax, sometimes we need another product between these two products. There could be better integrated and the capacity of the size could be larger."
"Its replication technology could be better."
"We are running VMware, and with the VNXe it was possible to restore. We're using Veeam for VMware backups and with the predecessor, it was possible to mount a backup or restore a backup from a storage snapshot. With the Unity 300, this is not possible."
"They can certainly improve in terms of monitoring."
"The reporting should be better. In other systems, you can create many different kinds of reports but this is not the case with Dell."
"Software updates have to be downloaded to the root of the device. This pushes the available space to 95% utilization."
"Perhaps if they added more 10GB ports to the back of the system, so you have more IOPS out of the box itself to the network, that would help."
"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."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"The deployment took a little longer."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem and DDN SFA7990X. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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