We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and Huawei OceanStor Dorado based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Huawei OceanStor Dorado came out ahead of Huawei OceanStor. Although the two products have straightforward deployment and multiple valuable features, our reviewers found Huawei OceanStor more expensive and that it needs to improve its technical support.
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"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."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"Great value for money."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"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 most valuable aspects encompass a comprehensive set of common features, such as NetFlow technology, hyper-micro, and hyper-application functionalities."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"It is very easy to use."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"We can use Huawei OceanStor Dorado capacity storage for many different purposes."
"I've been satisfied with the level of attention I'm given when I reach out to technical support."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"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."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well."
"The solution’s reporting could be improved."
"The management is not a good feature in all of Huawei products. It's not easy or simple. Huawei has some problems with management and handling storage information from one interface."
"The localization problem needs to be improved."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado's biggest weakness is its lack of cloud integration."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface."
"The technology and the features need improvement."
"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."
"The solution needs to improve its integration."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and DDN SFA7990X, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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