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."Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"The first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The customer support is helpful."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SmartMigration, HyperReplication, HyperSnap, HyperCopy, HyperClone, SmartPartition, and SmartCache."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment takes about a day."
"The performance is the most valuable feature."
"It has a good interface. Its configuration and flexibility are also good."
"ActiveIQ is the most valuable feature. It's a central point for me to be able to kick into everything every day. I log in first thing and make sure there are no issues, and it helps me with my day-to-day."
"We have had issues before on our infrastructure where 20 to 30 percent of the people would come to us pointing the finger at the storage technology or storage back-end. That is now virtually zero."
"The speed is great. That's probably number one in terms of features we appreciate."
"Batch times went from approximately seven hours down to about two and a half. Functionality during the day, such as taking or removing snapshots and cloning instances, is higher than it has ever been."
"The NVMe flash cache is the most useful feature. It lowers transactional speed even more."
"The tool has lowered latency."
"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."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"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."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"The solution's price could be better."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"There could be local support services available for the platform. Additionally, they should provide a bundled license, including all protection and encryption rules."
"The technology and the features need improvement."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve the integration, there have been some compatibility issues with some operating system functions."
"The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0."
"I don't like the newest GUI. It needs more options. Some features have been removed. Oversight is not as good in the new GUI compared to the previous version. Though, it might be something that we just need to get used to."
"In terms of improvement, the support could be a little better."
"I would like to see better tutorials available, beyond the basics, that cover subjects like MetroCluster and automation."
"One of the features that I am looking for, which is already in the works, is to be able to take my code and automatically move it to the cloud."
"Better stability, not releasing features until they are fully functional, or at least giving us a software train that doesn't add them until they are fully functional and proven."
"The cost of this solution should be reduced."
"The stability is good but there is room for improvement with other options."
"Another issue is that for smaller customers, NetApp doesn't have enough disk sizes. You begin with a 980-gigabyte disk and the next size is 3.8 terabytes. There aren't any disk sizes in between. Competitors have more choices in disk sizes."
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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