We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"Great value for money."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"The support is excellent."
"The main advantage of this solution is performance."
"The management software is very good."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance of the database access."
"Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features."
"The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature."
"It provides multi-protocol, which is what gives the edge when it comes to big lineage PC workloads."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"It is a bit expensive."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"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."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"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."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"We have used IBM previously. We found that the storage from IBM was poor and we chose NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays because it can scale very easily."
"NetApp could improve the speed of the rebuilding rate."
"The price of the All Flash solution is very high."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
"I would like to shrink it more, if we can. The smaller, the better."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate data between All Flash and other NetApp storage systems."
"It needs a better management tool."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
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Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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