We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe 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."It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"The SRDF site-to-site replication for the volumes is the most important feature for us. That enables us to do site recovery and replication for our VMware infrastructure."
"First, it's an enterprise storage solution. This is very important for us. Another important feature is replication."
"The speed and the compatible interface with IBM are the most valuable features of the PowerMax product."
"PowerMax NVMe has made it a lot easier to understand how much we are able to provision. It has made it a lot faster to provision new things. 90% of my time for provisioning has been reduced. Also, it has made it very easy to understand and see everything behind it versus the older heritage, where Dell EMC was very convoluted and hard to get working. Things that used to take an hour, probably now take five to 10 minutes."
"We are most interested in cloud utilization."
"It has dramatically cut down the footprint in our data center and reduced the amount of raw disk capacity that we needed to purchase."
"The smaller footprint of the device has been really nice. We have gone from eight bays to one bay. Having one floor tile in our data center has been pretty awesome. A lot less power and HVAC cooling is being consumed."
"The stability is great. It is five nines."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"It is very easy to use."
"We can use Huawei OceanStor Dorado capacity storage for many different purposes."
"The product offers good performance."
"The platform's most valuable features are reliability, intelligence, and fast performance speed."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"The installation and management are very easy."
"The performance is good."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"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."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"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."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"We've had a couple of little things come up, but for the most part, they've been pretty stable."
"Remove the need for physical or hardwired virtual servers to run consistency groups, instead make the expensive array controllers handle that."
"The technical support is lacking. We are working with Dell EMC to get some better understanding of this."
"I think management is where PowerMax is weakest. We're still managing it like we managed EMC arrays in the early 2000s. There's a slicker, fancier GUI that does more things, but at the end of the day, you still have to dig into the command line and issue a lot of the same commands that we still were using almost 20 years ago."
"PowerMax's software is highly stable, but we faced two hardware issues in one year. We had a failure of the storage director module, and the physical disk failed on another occasion. Dell EMC should improve its hardware quality."
"I would like NVMe to be end-to-end in the next release. Right now, it is not end-to-end."
"I'd like to see the dedup and compression improve. Two to one is not very good. We should be getting something like three, four, or five to one."
"Having distinct modules for data compression and encryption features enhances flexibility and performance optimization for users with varying requirements."
"If they implement a backup solution directly into the OceanStor then it will be a valuable feature."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0."
"The built-in reporting tools need some enhancement."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve the integration, there have been some compatibility issues with some operating system functions."
"I would like to see them improve their IOPS per second to match their contemporaries in the industry."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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 Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Dell XtremIO and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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