We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and Pure Storage FlashBlade 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."Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The performance is very good."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The most valuable features of Huawei OceanStor are the dashboards, bandwidth, and data performance."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"Great value for money."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"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."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures efficient replication and helps maintain our data centers' uptime."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"It has absolutely simplified our storage because the dashboards on the consoles show a clear understanding of where you are, and it is also very easy to provision. This been a big help for our teams."
"The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to."
"The snapshots, replication, and the ability to have immutable blades are the most valuable features. You're putting data snapshots out in those blades, and they cannot be touched. Its performance is great."
"The solution provides many controllers."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"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 GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"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."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well."
"We haven't been able to use much of the cloud area of Pure Storage. We have a storage server and it would be better if it could integrate with other cloud features of this solution."
"I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features."
"Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, requiring feature disabling to revert to traditional backups. The firmware upgrades sometimes affect Commvault backups."
"Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
"The solution is expensive."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
"I would like to see more monitoring capability included in the next release of this solution."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. 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 FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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