We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe 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."The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"The performance is very good."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"The first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"The solution has good operability and easy scalability."
"We are most interested in cloud utilization."
"It's faster and more resilient."
"It was easy for teams to pick up the technology with very limited exposure and training, then implement and support it."
"It is efficient and very simple for our administrators to use."
"The compression and deduplication are the most valuable features because of the cost savings."
"It significantly simplifies storage."
"The most valuable feature is its global cache, which allows for uncompromised performance."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"Huawei OceanStor is designed with built-in high availability features, such as fault tolerance, ensuring consistent data access and minimizing downtime."
"The solution is easy to use."
"This is a stable storage system."
"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"Great value for money."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"Automation could be simplified."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"The solution does not use new versions of OS and patches. Its installation is also difficult. The solution is not as fast as other storage in the market."
"If the solution had more power-saving capabilities, it would be quite nice."
"If you go to Pure or you go to NetApp, they deliver in one month. If you go to Dell or HP, they will take up to six months for delivery. This is not a business model for today."
"The technical support is lacking. We are working with Dell EMC to get some better understanding of this."
"PowerMax Storage needs improvement in the area of monitoring tools. It should have more functions and more complicated analysis options inside the monitoring tools."
"There are definitely some improvements that can be made to the CloudIQ."
"Dell PowerMax NVMe is costly compared to other solutions."
"There is also room for improvement in the PowerMax architecture and hardware itself. They should design the PowerMax on the basis of PCIe 4.0. I would like to see the possibility of an NVMe drive that operates on PCIe 4.0 and not PCIe 3.0."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
"We did experience a little latency with this solution."
"The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."
"The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"Huawei OceanStor should work on its saturation level and should be able to take up more load. It should give the same performance that it gives at 20 or 30 percent load for 80 percent as well."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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