The initial setup is very easy. Even the number of hosts directly connectable to the OceanStor is an eight out of ten. In comparison, my experience with the Dell EMC Unity 400 restricted connectivity to only four ports for the entire rack. 

On the other hand, with OceanStor, we can connect eight hosts per storage unit. It also eliminates the need to invest in additional switches, which is almost half the overall solution's cost. The provisioning aspect is both simple and efficient. 

It takes around three hours to deploy.

When I first started working with this solution, I found it hard to implement it but with experience, it became much easier. The complexity of the initial setup depends on the skills and expertise of the technicians. 

Huawei OceanStor could improve the deployment stage, configuration, and documentation. It is difficult. Huawei OceanStor is not similar to Cisco or Dell. The documentation or procedures is not readily available to the customers.

I would rate the difficulty level of Huawei OceanStor a three out of five.

The initial setup is straightforward and easy, especially when working with the storage arrays and familiar with the management. You can be quick with it. Generally, it takes about 30 minutes to deploy the storage rack physically.

It is on-premises, but it has connectivity for storage to the cloud. However, we don't use the cloud since we are in the EU, so we use the on-premises solution.

Huawei OceanStor has a very straightforward implementation, and its engineering team is also involved in the basic setup.

The initial setup was not difficult. It took us three hours to deploy the product.

The initial setup of Huawei OceanStor is easy and it took us approximately a few weeks.

I rate the initial setup of  Huawei OceanStor a ten out of ten.

The solution is straightforward to set up. It takes a few hours to complete the process.

The setup was done by Huawei. I don't have much information on the process of implementation. 

The solution's initial setup process is easy.

The implementation is easy because we are educated and experienced in Huawei OceanStor.

Huawei OceanStor's deployment is neither easy nor difficult and takes one to two days to complete. 

The initial setup was easy. I could deploy the solution by following the steps given in the document. We access it through our internal website. Two people were required to deploy the solution. It took us half a day. It is not difficult to maintain the tool.

I would rate Huawei OceanStor's set up a six to seven out of ten. 

We faced some difficulties during the initial setup because of the insufficient support provided by Huawei.

OceanStor is easy to deploy. We are Co-Care certified partner, and we are CSP 3 star, so we have direct access to Huawei helping us to have a better support internally and for customers

The installation of Huawei OceanStor is easy and took approximately three hours.

Initial setup is very straightforward and easy. Deployment takes no more than 10 or 15 minutes. It takes three or four people from our company and the client company to carry out deployment. We carry out maintenance, it usually takes three people. 

The initial setup is very simple. Even if a user is new to the product, they can just look at the documentation, and it will guide them through the process. 

It's very easy to install and configure the solution. It didn't take too long, it was more about fulfilling requirements for storage and deployment, so probably a month to six weeks. 

The initial setup of the 55-5400 didn't take long because the guys knew already how to deploy. The 68's took long. 

The deployment took a little longer. The installation and setup were just like any other product. It was not complex at all. We want everything to run smooth, so deployment took us about a week or two. But it could be done in two days' time, it is just that we preferred to be more secure and going step by step. In our case, we were moving a lot of data from the old system to the new one and we did this one thing at a time. So that is why it took so long.

Absolutely not, the product work out-of-the-box, you just need a knowledge about networking (in case of ISCSI) and FC protocol (in case of FiberChannel LUN provisioning that was my case).

Setting up OceanStor is pretty simple compared to Dell EMC, but the time needed for deployment depends on many things. It took around a month because it has to go through several processes to access the data center, get approval, plan the activity, and follow all the internal procedures. So these things make the process take longer.

In terms of maintenance, we load patches from Huawei by open request. They have patches that need to be applied from time to time. Three people are administrating OceanStor directly within the company. We have outside support who can access it on demand, but three people are storage administrators within the company. 

The initial setup is okay and there is not much difficulty involved. The deployment can be completed in a couple of hours.

Being a Huawei product, initial setup was easy and not difficult at all. The setup only required one engineer from our team.

The physical installation itself is quite fast, but we had to go through the requirements with the connections and servers, etc. I would say it took about five or six weeks.

The initial setup was straightforward. The time it takes to deploy depends on the configuration. It can take a few hours if you are including mounting the storage and bigger deployments with the many controllers can take longer. It can take up to three days, depending on architectural complexities.

Initial setup is very straightforward, very easy. We didn't have any challenges. 

The configuration process is very complex, and the proprietary tools/software available for configuration are kind of tricky to install and run.

The initial setup isn't complex. It's quite easy and straightforward.