We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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 most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The solution is very reliable."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"Any updates are just part of your subscription, so you don't have to buy add-ons for new features. You're continually adding value to it."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"We have found the advantage of it is the easy, rapid setup, but also that it is very easy to manage."
"We have seen our average latency go from four milliseconds to point four. Therefore, we are getting 10 times better performance down to the end user on everything. We have seen an increase in our IOPS by ten times."
"It's given us more time to do the important things, less time worrying about SANs and failures and picking up the pieces. It just works."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The customer support is helpful."
"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."
"We can use Huawei OceanStor Dorado capacity storage for many different purposes."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"The solution’s overall security is good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SmartMigration, HyperReplication, HyperSnap, HyperCopy, HyperClone, SmartPartition, and SmartCache."
"The platform's most valuable features are reliability, intelligence, and fast performance speed."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"I'd also like to see them incorporate tools that let me get granular with the VMs. I want to see an individual VM, I want to Snapshot and recover an individual VM."
"I would like deduplication by default on all the volumes. I still don't understand (or know why) dedupe isn't enabled for the templates out-of-the-box. We have to go in and manually enable it each and every time."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"I would like to see more integrations."
"I want it to be an active-active array. Nimble would be great as an active-active array because then everything checks out. It would give a feeling of comfort."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."
"A feature that would be a nice addition to the next release would be a filer option. A filer option so that you could connect the sim or NFS or chips like NetApp does for NAS functionality."
"Engineers with two to three years of experience with Huawei will find that Huawei OceanStor Dorado is a bit complicated to use compared to other Huawei storages."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"This solution can improve by providing easier migrations and better Metro features."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"The data compression and deduplication ratio of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is not as good as other solutions, such as EMC and Pure Storage. It is important when looking at capacity effectiveness."
"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."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols"
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 15 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 15 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "A tool that offers protection against ransomware and other enterprise-level attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Unlocking exceptional performance and reliability with outstanding support". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem and HPE Primera. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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