We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and SolidFire 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 put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"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."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The performance is very good."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"The solution is scalable."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"It is a highly available product."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"The square footage for doing development is at a premium when dealing with government networks. To be able to put a lot of IOPS in a lot of high-speed performing drives in a very small location which requires very little HVAC with very little power, it is very valuable to us."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"We can just buy them, scale them as we need on demand, and we don't have to spend so many front end cycles on designing the architecture."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"If we get complaints about any kind of performance metric issues, whether it's storage related or something on the virtual side, we use it to pinpoint what the actual issue is."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"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."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."
"They could make the mNode more user-friendly. Now you need to configure and add nodes by CLI and it’s not really easy to manage. If they created a web interface to do the management of the mNode, that would be great!."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."
"The upgrade process could be better."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our Huawei OceanStor vs. SolidFire report.
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