We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and Huawei OceanStor 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."Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"The deduplication functionality provided by the solution is fairly good. The speed offered by the product is enough for our organization."
"The compression is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerStore is the all-NVMe flash storage. This is the most powerful feature of this series. It supports compression and duplication leads."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"It's a great product. Integrating PowerStore with the IT workflow is easy."
"Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued."
"When compared to Pure Storage, Dell PowerStore's cost was quite attractive."
"The solution is easy to scale as needed."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"The support is excellent."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"We need better data deduplication."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"It is on the expensive side."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"The upgrades themselves are running fine, but after the upgrade is when we have a problem. With the update to 1.4, we had a head crash. They told us, 'This is a known issue. Please upgrade to 2.' We upgraded to 2 and, one week later they told us, 'Yeah, there are some issues in 2.0.0. You can lose data. Please upgrade to 2.0.1.' Overall, they need to make the system stable."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"The pricing could be lower. It is very expensive."
"During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us."
"When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements."
"Data reduction needs improvement."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"After the smooth launch of the product in our company, only the areas around upgrades are a bit problematic. In our organization, we face difficulties when updating the product."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"Integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"The price could be better. It's not good for the Brazilian market."
"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."
"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."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 47 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray and Dell XtremIO, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and HPE Primera. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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