We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It is a highly available product."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"If your virtual machine that resides on it completely fills the storage space, thanks to it's built-in function of all-zero data space reclamation, you just have to ask to System Engineer to run a zero-free on hosts (thin provisioned) and you will get more space instantaneously."
"Huawei OceanStor is designed with built-in high availability features, such as fault tolerance, ensuring consistent data access and minimizing downtime."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"Good performance for VM environments"
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"Integration with VMware"
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"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."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"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."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"The management is not a good feature in all of Huawei products. It's not easy or simple. Huawei has some problems with management and handling storage information from one interface."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"VNX can improve by offering flexible upgrade options. It's not possible to add a single HDD to a current array and there are fixed rules to make upgrades."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption."
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Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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