We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and IBM FlashSystem 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 initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"The most valuable aspects encompass a comprehensive set of common features, such as NetFlow technology, hyper-micro, and hyper-application functionalities."
"The majority of our customers find this solution simple to use."
"I've been satisfied with the level of attention I'm given when I reach out to technical support."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"The solution is scalable."
"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."
"The platform’s most valuable features are speed, accuracy, and encryption."
"The price-performance ratio is most valuable."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, which together, enable you to have more space."
"Over the years, it has become increasingly user-friendly."
"Stability-wise, this solution is fine."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"One of the most valuable features is that it's very easy to use and configure. It used to be more difficult, but now it's almost flawless."
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"The maintenance service and support from IBM is very good."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"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."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"It needs to improve its price."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"It should have easy connectivity with the AIX, however, I've found that with AIX, it has some issues and due to this, we need to remove the exact fiber card sometimes and then plug it in again so that it can connect with the AIX systems."
"There are some limitations to this product because they do not have unified storage."
"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."
"The solution needs to improve its integration."
"The product could always be faster."
"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."
"The security features can be improved such that the encryption does not affect performance in any way."
"AHV is Acropolis Hypervisor – A relatively new Hypervisor, robust and stable as VMware vSphere, has built-in advanced analytics and powerful operations, Self Service Portal and components for DevOps included, managed by a single pane of glass (Prism) via HTML5 and it is free of charge – That is why Nutanix is so advanced and revolutionary."
"The solution's infrastructure technology level could be PCI Express 5 instead of PCI Express 4 for the next version."
"I would like to see bigger modules."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
"They don't offer subscription-based payments."
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"The Data Reduction Pools (DRP) support could be better."
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Primera. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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