We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp AFF 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."One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment takes about a day."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SmartMigration, HyperReplication, HyperSnap, HyperCopy, HyperClone, SmartPartition, and SmartCache."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"The most valuable features are the five chips architecture and the purpose-built NVMe hard disk drive. Additionally, the IOPS feature is good."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution's pricing is its most valuable feature."
"Performance. Mostly with our default settings it's good. All of the factory settings are fine. We don't have to tune it."
"Its efficiency and scalability are the most valuable features."
"It's pretty scalable. It can scale up to 24 nodes."
"There are two compression technologies available within it, and they are valuable because they allow for significantly higher data storage capacity and the retention of a larger number of snapshots on the system."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, so we get more out of our storage. The replication is also important."
"The most valuable features are the speed and performance for our transactional workloads for our databases."
"We use the NFS and SIP protocols a lot. The NFS is the most valuable feature."
"Data efficiency is the most valuable feature because of the dedupe and compression."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols"
"The solution's price could be better."
"The solution needs to improve its integration."
"The technology and the features need improvement."
"The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface."
"In additional features, it would be easier to do snapshots on a regular basis. So, like, a new feature that would allow you to take snapshots every hour."
"The product could always be faster."
"If they implement a backup solution directly into the OceanStor then it will be a valuable feature."
"The quality of technical support has dwindled over time and needs to be improved."
"A graphical user interface displaying efficiency metrics, such as compression and deduplication rates, would be a great addition."
"You have a limit in terms of how much you can expand storage. It sounds like a lot. However, over the years, as you grow, it may be smaller than you think."
"Going forward, I would like improvement in the response latencies, capacity size, cache, and controller size."
"In terms of improvement, IO performance could use some enhancement."
"It would be better if they just improved the performance of the system."
"We should be able to manage NetApp AFF as per the desired usage and needs."
"I would like it to be an IP as our network is mainly IP-based."
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while NetApp AFF is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, VMware vSAN and Huawei OceanStor. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. NetApp AFF report.
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