We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor 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."This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"It's just very easy for general block 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."
"The support is excellent."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"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."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"Huawei OceanStor has the capability of SSDs, high-performance disks, and higher disk support."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"Data efficiency is the most valuable feature because of the dedupe and compression."
"Over the past 18 years, it has been extremely easy to upgrade to newer products and technology. We can upgrade as we move along. So, we have been able to keep up with the newest technology with zero downtime."
"It's very stable. It's always there when we need it. With the Dual Controller, if one drops out, the other one comes right online. We don't use any iSCSI so there is a little bit of a latency break but, over the NFS, we don't notice that switch-on. We can do maintenance in the middle of the day, literally rip a whole controller out of the chassis, and do what we need to do with it."
"With the new version, they have the FabricPool which works for me. I can extend the hyperscaler storage."
"Technical support has been okay."
"The newest version of ONTAP has a bit of a learning curve because you need to learn where things are to find them. It is not impossible, but when you are accustomed to the older version of ONTAP, it just takes a bit getting used to it, but it is about the same as before."
"It has a good interface. Its configuration and flexibility are also good."
"We just migrated two petabytes of data storage from IBM over to NetApp All Flash. Some of the performance improvement that we've seen is 100 times I/O and microsecond latency."
"The solution is not cheap."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"The file functionality could be better."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"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."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"The technical support has been a let down for us. It's something the company has to work on. We haven't been satisfied with their level of service."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
"Technical support is a little lackluster. Some of the issues that we've had were opening up tickets. They seem to be routed in the wrong direction or it takes one or two days to get a call back for simple tasks."
"In terms of improvement, IO performance could use some enhancement."
"The scaling needs improvement. NetApp is limited for scaling options."
"I would like to see NetApp improve more of its offline tools and utilities."
"It would be nice to have better integration between SRM and VMware, as I've had some issues with that."
"We have had trouble with restoring applications, and if there is more support for application-aware backups then that would be great."
"The size of NetApp could be better. They're always about 40 pounds without the hard drives in them, so it would be great if there's a way to make them smaller yet keep the functionality. That would reduce the physical footprint."
"I think adding more features to make it more cloud enabled will help us with cloud tiering and simplify the whole cloud operations when it's integrating with our on-prem AFF products. That is one area where we would like to see more improvements from NetApp."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while NetApp AFF is rated 9.0. 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 NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and DDN SFA7990X, whereas NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series and VMware vSAN. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. NetApp AFF report.
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