We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor and VIOLIN QV2020 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"Great value for money."
"It is a highly available product."
"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
"The solution needs to improve the compression side of the application."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"The security could be a bit more robust."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"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."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while VIOLIN QV2020 is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4, while VIOLIN QV2020 is rated 8.0. 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 VIOLIN QV2020 writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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