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."The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"It's actually very stable"
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"Great value for money."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"Setup was simple and easy."
"The valuable features are the fabric pool. We are taking our cold data and pumping it straight into an estuary bucket. Also, efficiency. We're getting about two and a half times upwards of data efficiency through compaction, compression, deduplication, and it's size. When we refreshed from two or three racks of spinning discs down into 5U of rack space, it not only saved us a whole heap of costs in our data center environment but also it's nice to be green. The power savings alone equated to be about 50 tons of CO2 a year that we no longer emit. It's a big game changer."
"The NVMe flash cache is the most useful feature. It lowers transactional speed even more."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management."
"My favorite part is all-flash solid drives. All of my applications are running on an all-flash array. Before, we used to get too many severity tickets on performance, but as soon as we migrated everything to an all-flash array, our critical applications are at top performance."
"The performance is the most valuable feature."
"Tech support has been absolutely amazing. I think on the technical aspects as well, my staff is able to get great support from the NetApp technical support resources that we have. What I love about NetApp is they have a health care division. At times, it's such an amazing thing because if we have a healthcare-related issue, there's no one better than having prior CIOs from health care organizations that NetApp has hired, and that are part of the health care team, to help out with any of those initiatives and support problems. Support has been absolutely phenomenal."
"Easier to manage with the clustered system and everything with the newest ONTAP 9."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"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."
"The price could be better."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"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 price should be lower."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"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."
"We did experience a little latency with this solution."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"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 main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"When you look at the competitors, they have some features available, for example on the deduplication side."
"To enhance the already excellent administration, one area for potential improvement could be in terms of integration."
"This solution should be made easier to deploy."
"In terms of what needs improvement, I would like to see more consistency with the UI. It seems to change every few versions. The menus can be in a completely different place."
"ZAPI is kind of difficult to use. You know, it's SOAP-like, it's not really SOAP. I would like to see it more of a REST-based JSON, instead of XML."
"This is an expensive solution that could be cheaper."
"NetApp could focus even more on the configuration."
"We would like to have more behavioral reporting."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 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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