We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and Pure Storage FlashArray 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, Pure Storage FlashArray came out ahead of Huawei OceanStor. Even though both products were described as easy to deploy and with valuable features, Huawei OceanStor has a complex licensing model and needs better communication for effective technical support.
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"Great value for money."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The performance is very good."
"The software layer has to improve."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"Every time I think of something that needs to improve, they're one step ahead, which I love. The only area I wish to see improve, I believe is coming, is in the FlashBlade product. Blade implementation fell short on a few of the services."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"Right now, the box itself is just strictly working as a backend storage system. It would be fantastic if we could access it directly like a NAS device through network access or SIS drives. I think they have an interface, but I am not sure how good it is. If we could address a box directly on the network without having to go through a server, it would be great. The replication schemas could be improved. We are not using replication on the storage level right now. We use a different type of replication. If their replication would be as good as the one that we have, I would probably run the replication schema because it might be faster, but I don't know that for a fact. So, I cannot say that they have good replication. All I can say is that they need to inform us better."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"We did experience a little latency with this solution."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with other solutions."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies 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."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"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."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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