We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ 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."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."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"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."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The solution is easy to install."
"In the deployment of virtual servers, I can have a new VM up and running in 15 minutes, run the patches, then done. I routinely fire up base images that I have for my servers: Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. I routinely fire those base images up and do all the updates, then prep them again for cloning. With 3PAR, we definitely have the performance to do that. Those images I do keep on SSD just to have that performance to deploy a new VM."
"Proactive support. Before we notice that there's a problem in the storage, or any part, any hard disk, they already notify us, and within four hours, the product is delivered. Within the next hour after product delivery, the engineer is available to support me."
"For virtualization, the failure rate is much less compared to traditional storage where you need more hard drives"
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use, fully featured and has a great graphical user interface."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's advantageous in terms of the cost, in terms of the performance, and taking up less space."
"The features which are most valuable are the availability of the system and the management."
"Excellent and efficient support, and the product is a good price."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"This is a stable storage system."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"The solution is scalable."
"If your virtual machine that resides on it completely fills the storage space, thanks to it's built-in function of all-zero data space reclamation, you just have to ask to System Engineer to run a zero-free on hosts (thin provisioned) and you will get more space instantaneously."
"Great value for money."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"Right now, the box itself is just strictly working as a backend storage system. It would be fantastic if we could access it directly like a NAS device through network access or SIS drives. I think they have an interface, but I am not sure how good it is. If we could address a box directly on the network without having to go through a server, it would be great. The replication schemas could be improved. We are not using replication on the storage level right now. We use a different type of replication. If their replication would be as good as the one that we have, I would probably run the replication schema because it might be faster, but I don't know that for a fact. So, I cannot say that they have good replication. All I can say is that they need to inform us better."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"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."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"The interface could be improved to match the system."
"We have had a few issues with it. We had our virtual environment lock up a few times on storage-based things. We think we have it sorted out, but maybe it came down to a configuration issue on it."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"The tool needs improvement in the utilization report at the granular level."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"I would like to see the reliability improve. While it has been a good product, the QA of the product could be done a little more thoroughly."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"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."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"The technical support has been a let down for us. It's something the company has to work on. We haven't been satisfied with their level of service."
"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 administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerStore, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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