We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Dell Unity XT came out ahead of Huawei OceanStor. Both products have similar deployment difficulty and support quality, but Huawei OceanStor has more features that need improvement and can get expensive, depending on the chosen licensing.
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"The first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The scalability is good."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"Its quick integration with VMware. The ability to stand up a data store in one place, where you don't have to go and rescan for the data store through the vCenter Client, as well as SMB shares. This ended up being a big selling point for us."
"I like the integration into VirtualCenter. I used to have to add LUNs manually, then scan them in and format them. It does that all for you, all in one, immediate deployment of LUNs."
"The benefits are the simplicity, flexibility and the ease of integration between the Unity platform and VMware, for example, and Microsoft platforms; the integration tools and the simplicity of management."
"Its most valuable feature is the storage alarm."
"It gives me the flexibility with its ability to replicate to itself and the ability to use the Dell EMC Cloud as an option. That's always sitting there and waiting if we need it."
"The most valuable feature of Dell Unity XT is the GUI, it is very good. End users can manage using it. Additionally, the documentation is of high quality and it integrates well."
"It has a very intuitive web console that runs in HTML5 and makes navigation and administration fairly easy."
"It’s helped with the overall stability of our VMware environment."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"It needs to improve its price."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"We've got massive issues at the moment with IBM AIX. It's not stable. We have a lot of disk errors, production crashes sometimes."
"Compression and block deduplication on non-all-flash solutions."
"On the data domains - for the Unity product, but specifically for data domain - I would like a much easier interface for managing, for actually going in and having one place where I could get all of the different parts of the overall unit. And I would also like to be able to identify individual disks a lot more easily."
"The product’s pricing should be improved."
"In the dashboard there could be notification of duplicate files and the like, so we don't have to rely on Windows to do that."
"Our request to Dell EMC for improvement was in the reporting and monitoring areas. Dell EMC built up a cloud ID so that we could see the overall storage numbers. We needed to have the proper KPIs to be able to see and manage things."
"For the integration of the VPLEX function for Cross IDC structure, they should integrate the function into the SP controller."
"I have a problem because between the Unity XT and the PowerMax, sometimes we need another product between these two products. There could be better integrated and the capacity of the size could be larger."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem and DDN SFA7990X. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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