We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT 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."The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"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."
"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."
"It has improved the utilization of our own internal resources and performance across our managed service platform, meeting our customers SLAs."
"It's unified, it does block and file, so that is pretty important to my customers who might have file servers around their environment. I can roll them all up into a single array, as well as provide block storage for them on one array."
"A lot of the Unisphere interfaces are greatly improved in terms of monitoring capabilities, alerting, and ease of use. Setting up the storage and the file system are all just a few clicks away."
"The solution allows for easy, useful replication with good features for VPLEX and VIVO."
"I have had no problem at all. I think this is one of the most important things. It is very good. Maintaining it and deploying updates require very low maintenance. We haven't had problems. We had to replace a couple of disks in all these years, but it was pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is that the solution is a hybrid system, so you can do both block and file storage."
"It is nice the way ESRS works with remote support, being able to remote in and take a look at problems proactively."
"The solution’s overall security is good."
"The platform's most valuable features are reliability, intelligence, and fast performance speed."
"It is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"The product has the best compression and encryption features. The most valuable features I have found in the tool are its performance and cost-effectiveness. While Huawei OceanStor Dorado may not always be chosen for its features compared to other brands like Dell, HPE, etc., it is often selected due to its affordability. Customers opt for Huawei OceanStor Dorado primarily because it offers similar performance features as other brands at a lower cost."
"Two things really stand out for me. First, there's group cloning, which is very nice. It simplifies managing multiple clones across the group. Second, Huawei's multi-controller architecture with load balancing is a good part."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The platform’s most valuable features are speed, accuracy, and encryption."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"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."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"It could always use native replication. Then I could get rid of RecoverPoint."
"I rate the scalability of Dell Unity XT a nine out of ten."
"Software updates have to be downloaded to the root of the device. This pushes the available space to 95% utilization."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say its capacity and its connection."
"The interface and configuration could improve."
"The Host LUN ID is sequential by access in the hosts. When one LUN needs access by many hosts (for cluster purposes), in some cases the Host LUN ID remains different on each host."
"I would like to see more integration with other products."
"Firmware Upgrades in EMC Unity require you to manually download OS and Drive firmware, this should be integrated (Nimble does this). When you order an EMC Unity, you have to specify the block size. This is weird for me and even weirder that you cannot change this afterwards, you should be able to specify per LUN/datastore (Nimble does this as well)."
"The product could always be faster."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."
"An area of this product that has room for improvement is the NAS capability."
"The speeds of the disks themselves need to be faster. The disks are not flash. When we opened our hard drive from the inclusion, I saw a converter, and it's not entirely flash."
"Engineers with two to three years of experience with Huawei will find that Huawei OceanStor Dorado is a bit complicated to use compared to other Huawei storages."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"The solution's price could be better."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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 Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Dell SC Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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