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 most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"Very efficient storage"
"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."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"Dell EMC Unity XT has good integration with VMware."
"It's unified, it does block and file, so that is pretty important to my customers who might have file servers around their environment. I can roll them all up into a single array, as well as provide block storage for them on one array."
"It is ease to use. It performs. It's easy to provision, and It's stable."
"The Unisphere management interface: We are very familiar with it. It manages all the EMC devices that we have. Management is easy because it is part of Unisphere, which is self-learning."
"It is easy to manage overall. It is all web-based. It has a an easy, nice dashboard. I receive emails if there are issues. When there are any updates, I receive emails. I can either do them on my own, but normally I schedule them with Dell EMC and they remote in, then it's done."
"We have integrated it with vSphere and SQL. There were no costs involved outside of our normal workload licensing, no costs that were specific to the Unity platform."
"The NAS capability is mainly what we're looking for from this product, and being able to recover fast in DR."
"They've integrated NAS and SAN pretty well. It made replication very simple. Because one of our systems has a lot of LANs, for it to replicate we have Consistency Groups in there. That's something that is really helpful, making sure that everything is working not just for replication but for backups as well."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Great value for money."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"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."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"It was not proactive communication."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"If you compare it with VMAX, where we communicate with the box through Solutions Enabler and there are a lot of commands and a lot of flexibility, the command line for Unity needs to enhanced."
"Ordering is easy, but the processing site and working with those companies was difficult."
"In future releases, I would like to see automatic upgrades from one to the next, when this system is coming out and the next one is coming in; more akin to what Pure Storage is doing. That would be really helpful."
"I would like to see better compression, better dedupe. It's not nearly as good as what is built into the XtremIO. I understand why that is the case, but if they can take some of that technology and leverage that a little bit better in the Unity array, that would be great."
"It could be improved in the area of management flexibility. For example, I really need to set read-only access for LUNs, and there's no such option with Unity XT."
"The user interface could be improved. The Dell Compellent user interface is fantastic, but the Unity user interface is, in comparison, pretty lousy. It's functional, and I can do what I need, but the Dell Compellent user interface is so much more intuitive and user-friendly."
"This product lacks deduplication and compression at the current version 4.1.0. LACP is not available for iSCSI either."
"Scalability of this solution could be improved."
"We did experience a little latency with this solution."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"The product must improve the local technical support in China."
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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