We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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."Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"It's actually very stable"
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"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."
"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."
"We particularly like the user interface on cloud IQ with this product."
"The most valuable feature is the performance. It's still an all-flash array at a good price point."
"Purchasing; We worked with a sales rep to purchase our Unity."
"It is easy to scale, maintain, and manage."
"It is scalable. We can add additional tools if we need to expand it."
"Being all-flash makes everything super-fast. It's also great to manage. That's the easiest part. We also have another SAN, from Pure, and the Unity is easier to manage than the Pure."
"The technical support is very professional and provides quick responses."
"The customer support is helpful."
"We can use Huawei OceanStor Dorado capacity storage for many different purposes."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"The performance is good."
"The platform's most valuable features are reliability, intelligence, and fast performance speed."
"I've been satisfied with the level of attention I'm given when I reach out to technical support."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"The platform’s most valuable features are speed, accuracy, and encryption."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"One of the issues we've had is that controllers have crashed several times... We've had a lot of problems with the storage processor, SPBs. We've actually had them crash."
"It isn't easy to find trusted partners for the product. The solution has issues with mid-level storage and does not come with enterprise storage."
"There are some features in VNX that I wish were in the Unity. For example, Storage Groups for isolating LANs and hosts. That is a big issue."
"Dell EMC Unity's competitor, NetApp, has a similar product. However, it has a clustering technology where you can group multiple systems together, then you can move data from one system to another seamlessly. I would like the Unity to do that."
"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."
"The product’s pricing should be improved."
"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."
"I would like to see more integration with other products."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"Having distinct modules for data compression and encryption features enhances flexibility and performance optimization for users with varying requirements."
"The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface."
"The speeds of the disks themselves need to be faster. The disks are not flash. When we opened our hard drive from the inclusion, I saw a converter, and it's not entirely flash."
"The price must be improved."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."
"The solution needs to improve its integration."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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 Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Dell SC Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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