We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series 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 performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"It's actually very stable"
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"This solution is very scalable."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"It is just as stable as any other high-end solution."
"Everything is sub-5 MS for us. What I've found is that, with all-flash, when an app from my business is slow, I pretty much know it's them and not me. It leads to a performance conversation that has really hit an interesting threshold point where we are better than what they need. So now we get to have that "refactoring your application" conversation a lot quicker because now the performance on the infrastructure side isn't in question anymore."
"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."
"With auto-tiering, it's easier to understand than most arrays, knowing that all of your writes go to the tier that you specify, with easy-to-create storage profiles."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"Huawei OceanStor has the capability of SSDs, high-performance disks, and higher disk support."
"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"Great value for money."
"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"The price could be better."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"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 have support available in Spanish."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"An issue we had was that the controller went down during an upgrade because of their upgrading the code. One side of the switch was down."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and should be made simpler to do."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable."
"The connection should be better integrated with the network to offer a better view of the system."
"What I understand is that this is a 13 year old architecture, so it has lived its life and they're phasing it out. Honestly, we were initially struggling with the integration with VMware (but it was fixed with the VMware 6.5) and, then, it was around a 10GB network. At that time, it had the longevity to go to 100GB as well. It got us thinking about, when we go into the containerized architecture, what do we need to do to fix the infrastructure?"
"This solution could be improved if overall performance was improved and operated with a higher speed and supported a higher volume of RAM."
"We have seen some degraded throughput with mixed workloads. We have been working with Dell EMC to correct some of these latency issues."
"Snapshots in VMware. You can’t do snapshots since the storage itself does that. Therefore, some apps (Veeam, for example) don’t work well with this kind of tiering storage."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"We did experience a little latency with this solution."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"The solution’s reporting could be improved."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp AFF, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X. See our Dell SC Series vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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