We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and IBM FlashSystem 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, IBM FlashSystem came out ahead of Huawei OceanStor. Although both products have valuable features, our reviewers found that Huawei OceanStor has complex licensing that can make the solution too expensive and needs to improve their tech support’s communication.
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"It worked flawlessly."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"The solution is scalable."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related."
"Huawei OceanStor is a good product. Its interface is very simple. The complexities we encounter with recovery points are gone. We just attach to remote storage, click the application, and it starts."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is SCM (Storage Class Memory), which has the lowest latency value in the storage industry."
"At the FlashSystem level, customers are especially fond of multi-tier and distributed rate systems, particularly the dynamic rate six arrays."
"IBM FlashSystem is a flexible solution with plenty of features."
"The initial setup is straightforward and can be done in an hour and a half by one person."
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"The performance is very good and we use this product to enhance our core system."
"The most valuable feature is reliability."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"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."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"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."
"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 can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"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 could improve by having better integration."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
"The interface could improve in IBM FlashSystem."
"Replication features need improvement. Currently, they are there in the product, but I'm not sure as to how it works exactly."
"The basic setup can be challenging when it comes to certain IP addresses and the configuration of the IP. You have to go in to different menus to makes changes and ensure it is stable."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The marketing could be improved."
"The Data Reduction Pools (DRP) support could be better."
"The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"When you provision a datastore auto-format takes a long time"
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. 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 IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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