We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 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.
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"The performance is very good."
"One of the features, for us, that is important is the monitoring platform integrated into the solution. It has all the elements that we need to see, at all times, to be sure the platform is working right."
"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."
"It is the most stable high-end solution in this area."
"The customer service and support are reasonably good. The environment I work in, there always remains an element of surprise, and there are restrictions. But Hitachi has good technical people."
"The first thing that attracted this model to us was the non-disruptive migration. We had a very large database application that was on older gear and needed to be migrated to these arrays. We had experience with virtualizing behind an array and moving applications and data but this made it even better."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"The solution is easy to use."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"It is a highly available product."
"The solution is scalable."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"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."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"It needs to improve its price."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform faces challenges when it comes to features like deduplication and compression. Enabling these features can lead to processor overload, resulting in performance degradation, especially under high loads."
"The installation procedure it a bit difficult, because it is a high-end solution. With this type of product, the original company is interested in doing the setup for customers in the area, but because of sanctions we were not able to get support in our area. We faced many issued trying to learn to run this product."
"There is a drawback related to Hitachi's configuration flexibility. The Hitachi storage platform solution is not flexible. That means that both the Hitachi and the partner presale guys have to do a lot of work to design a solution."
"One problem is that there are too many management tools for the F Series and for all the other Hitachi storage systems. There are four or five such solutions. Maybe these could be combined in the future."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like."
"Hitachi should offer a distinct overview of the various storage choices."
"In terms of what could be improved, it could use a better, faster web console and other consoles. It is so boring waiting, waiting and waiting for it to refresh."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"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."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"CFS integration is one area where OceanStor has some room for improvement. The CFS on OceanStor is dedicated, so it's not integrated with the existing active directory domain."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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