We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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."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."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"I have found the most valuable part of Dell PowerStore is the price."
"Dell PowerStore is an easy and fast tool to work through our company's data."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerStore is the all-NVMe flash storage. This is the most powerful feature of this series. It supports compression and duplication leads."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"The deduplication functionality provided by the solution is fairly good. The speed offered by the product is enough for our organization."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"It is a highly available product."
"Great value for money."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"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."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"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."
"The upgrades themselves are running fine, but after the upgrade is when we have a problem. With the update to 1.4, we had a head crash. They told us, 'This is a known issue. Please upgrade to 2.' We upgraded to 2 and, one week later they told us, 'Yeah, there are some issues in 2.0.0. You can lose data. Please upgrade to 2.0.1.' Overall, they need to make the system stable."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"The price is on the higher side."
"There is no Synchronize replication feature on the storage."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"There are certain shortcomings with the technical support team of Dell PowerStore, where improvements are required."
"I have not seen anything specific. The only thing I can think of that needs improvement is the price."
"The setup process could be improved. We had some issues regarding configuration and the time it took to do things. It wasn't specifically the people we worked with, but more the process and how it's done. They can work on that."
"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 main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"The solution’s reporting could be improved."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"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."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
"The product must improve the local technical support in China."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and DDN SFA7990X. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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