We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Huawei OceanStor 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."We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"It's actually very stable"
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"This solution is very scalable."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"They could probably improve an organization with just about anything. It is all a matter of ease of use, ease of the implementation, etc."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"It's given us more time to do the important things, less time worrying about SANs and failures and picking up the pieces. It just works."
"The stability is awesome. The product has always been reliable. It has been 100 percent up. We have never had any downtime with it. Even if a controller fails due to our firmware or whatever, it rolls over to the second one and keeps us running."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"Its speed, ease of use, and it has been completely reliable."
"Any updates are just part of your subscription, so you don't have to buy add-ons for new features. You're continually adding value to it."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"Huawei OceanStor is designed with built-in high availability features, such as fault tolerance, ensuring consistent data access and minimizing downtime."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Great value for money."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"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."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"I’d like to see in-line deduplication extended to Nimble non-flash (called “Hybrid”) arrays, even if it’s only the C500 and higher controllers that support it."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"I want it to be an active-active array. Nimble would be great as an active-active array because then everything checks out. It would give a feeling of comfort."
"I would like to see the network portion of the product improve, especially with some of the things which are coming out from Aruba and HPE. Both are innovating more of an automated networking. I would like to see our Nimble meld into that and do some automated networking."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"We did experience a little latency with this solution."
"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."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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