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."The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"It is ease to use. It performs. It's easy to provision, and It's stable."
"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 solution is so easy to manage that I forget it is there."
"We run about 100 virtual servers on it. We have about 100 users accessing the file shares from there, and I've seen no problem with that. We have about a 10GB backbone. Whatever we throw at it, it hasn't shown any sign of weakness or anything. It's been really good."
"Unity's are more easily administrated, so we need fewer people to do the administration. We have less overhead because of that."
"It's a much smaller footprint than our older storage arrays, which take up some six tiles, a lot of space in the data center. The Unity's are a lot smaller, and they're a lot faster."
"All-flash array eliminates all the overhead of tiering and a lot of the data structuring overhead involved."
"A lot of the Unisphere interfaces are greatly improved in terms of monitoring capabilities, alerting, and ease of use. Setting up the storage and the file system are all just a few clicks away."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The customer support is helpful."
"Two things really stand out for me. First, there's group cloning, which is very nice. It simplifies managing multiple clones across the group. Second, Huawei's multi-controller architecture with load balancing is a good part."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"The installation and management are very easy."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"The most valuable aspects encompass a comprehensive set of common features, such as NetFlow technology, hyper-micro, and hyper-application functionalities."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"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."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"There are a lot of things that can be done with it. It's got Cloud IQ, but I think it's not as mature as it could be, they could make it more effective. They could make it more comparable to some of the other products out there that have cloud analytics. The amount of insight that the Unity product is able to give, at this point, is okay, but not class-leading. Some of the other data-reduction technologies, like deduplication, are not to the level of other competitors and what their products provide."
"We'd like to see a cheaper version of an all-flash array in that footprint."
"I would like the device to have the ability to pull down its own firmware. That would be a great thing."
"We integrated it with vSphere but that integration was "iffy". It was okay but we had a few challenges with it."
"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."
"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."
"We have had some downtime. Nothing is perfect. Unity’s have had some code-release problems, versions that, from a compatibility perspective, had some glitches which caused an outage. But, given the amount of Unity’s we run, that has been fairly minor and it hasn't happened at scale or across all of our Unity’s."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say its capacity and its connection."
"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."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."
"The data compression and deduplication ratio of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is not as good as other solutions, such as EMC and Pure Storage. It is important when looking at capacity effectiveness."
"The solution's price could be better."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"This solution can improve by providing easier migrations and better Metro features."
"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."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 29 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 15 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Price / Quality ratio is good and since OE 5.03 code the array family reached a rather good maturity level". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Unlocking exceptional performance and reliability with outstanding support". 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, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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