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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs Huawei OceanStor Dorado comparison

Hitachi Vantara and Huawei are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.1, while Huawei is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.4. Hitachi Vantara holds a 3.7% mindshare in AFS, compared to Huawei’s 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Huawei users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Huawei OceanStor Dorado are competing enterprise storage solutions. Huawei OceanStor Dorado seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced features and speed.

Features: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is appreciated for its reliable performance and scalability. It offers consistent uptime, flexible configuration options, and robust security features. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is noted for its high-speed data processing and innovative AI features. It provides ultra-low latency, intelligent data management, and advanced deduplication capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform could enhance its interface and reduce complexity. Users also suggest better integration with third-party tools and more intuitive management software. Huawei OceanStor Dorado users point out the need for improvements in integration capabilities and documentation clarity. Furthermore, its interface could be more user-friendly.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is reported to have a straightforward deployment process but mixed customer service experiences. Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers a faster deployment process but users report needing better customer support for troubleshooting.

Pricing and ROI: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform's pricing is considered on the higher side but delivers strong ROI due to its performance. Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers competitive pricing with favorable ROI, attributed to its efficient processing and lower setup costs.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
1.0
Organizations reduced costs and improved performance with Pure FlashArray X NVMe, achieving quick ROI and efficient resource management.
Sentiment score
6.2
Users find Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform valuable, citing long-term benefits, competitive costs, financial gains, and improved performance.
Sentiment score
5.5
Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers excellent ROI with low cost of ownership, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, despite higher initial costs.
If you wait more than seven years to buy another one, you get a return on your investment.
Eugene Hemphill
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
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While performance, security, and financial aspects of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform are satisfactory, I am unsure about the exact return on investment.
Bratislav Petkovic
Team Lead for Core Infrastructure at Raiffeisen bank Serbia
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They are, however, available and reliable, so it is a good investment.
Julien GUILLAUMOU
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
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Eugene Hemphill - PeerSpot reviewerBratislav Petkovic - PeerSpot reviewer
JG
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
Pure FlashArray X NVMe's technical support is praised for responsiveness, despite occasional follow-up issues, earning high customer satisfaction.
Sentiment score
6.2
Users have mixed feedback on Hitachi's support: praised for expertise but criticized for delays and inconsistent global assistance.
Sentiment score
8.3
Huawei OceanStor Dorado customer support is efficient and responsive, with evolving service models and suggested improvements for high-demand regions.
Customers always have their issues resolved promptly.
Eugene Hemphill
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
Technical support is good at least through vendors, not directly with the principal.
Shakeel Qureshi
Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
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The time taken to act upon issues is quite large, and issue identification takes a significant amount of time, especially when it comes to critical problems.
ANAND V
Associate Vice President at Federal Bank Ltd
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Huawei's technical support in Romania for Europe is good.
Julien GUILLAUMOU
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
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Eugene Hemphill - PeerSpot reviewer
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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers scalable storage with low latency, easy upgrades, though capacity customization and high costs are noted.
Sentiment score
7.3
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform provides scalable options, adaptability, and reliability, supporting diverse enterprise expansion needs effectively despite some limitations.
Sentiment score
7.4
Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers superior scalability, efficiently supporting varied organizations with seamless horizontal and vertical expansion, outperforming competitors.
It hasn't broken down anytime in the last six to seven years, despite hurricanes, earthquakes, and power outages.
Eugene Hemphill
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
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No quotes available
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Pure Storage offers exceptional stability and reliability with outstanding support, consistently achieving high user ratings for performance and service.
Sentiment score
8.2
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is highly reliable and stable, ideal for critical 24/7 operations with minimal downtime issues.
Sentiment score
7.9
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is praised for its high reliability and stability, with ratings between seven and ten out of ten.
I would rate the stability of the product at seven out of ten.
Gary Cheung
Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees
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If we are running on a standalone infrastructure, I would rate Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform a 10 for stability.
ANAND V
Associate Vice President at Federal Bank Ltd
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No quotes available
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Room For Improvement

Pure FlashArray X requires cost-effective improvements in UI, integration, cloud features, multitenancy, analytics, backup, AI, and scalability.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform needs improved UX, automation, scalability, support, reasonable pricing, deduplication, and better management tools.
Huawei OceanStor Dorado faces integration, performance, and usability challenges, compounded by licensing and geopolitical issues affecting adoption.
Storage replication should be essential.
Shakeel Qureshi
Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I would like to see some AI features that would allow arrays to intelligently identify threats or unusual behavior in the data pattern and give an alert.
Santhosh Sridhara
Cloud Architect at DXC Technology
One way to improve the product is to add an operational assistant that doesn't depend on VMware.
Eugene Hemphill
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
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The interface management and monitoring need improvement.
Bratislav Petkovic
Team Lead for Core Infrastructure at Raiffeisen bank Serbia
Additional functionality related to data encryption and authentication could improve Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
reviewer904212
Solution Architect at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
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Some customers have reported not understanding how the immutable part can be unlocked.
Julien GUILLAUMOU
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
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SQ
Santhosh Sridhara - PeerSpot reviewerEugene Hemphill - PeerSpot reviewerBratislav Petkovic - PeerSpot reviewerreviewer904212 - PeerSpot reviewer
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Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers see Pure FlashArray X NVMe as a justified premium investment due to performance and comprehensive licensing.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is initially costly but offers justified performance and potential discounts, with complex licensing options.
Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers cost-effective pricing with minimal maintenance, although advanced features may require extra purchases.
The support can be a bit pricey, but the solution is more cost-effective than anything else out there.
Eugene Hemphill
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits.
Enes SUZER
Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.
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The cost of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is reasonable compared to competitors.
ANAND V
Associate Vice President at Federal Bank Ltd
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The products they offer are quite cheap.
Julien GUILLAUMOU
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
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Eugene Hemphill - PeerSpot reviewerEnes SUZER - PeerSpot reviewer
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JG
 

Valuable Features

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers exceptional performance, reliability, scalability, and seamless VMware integration, enhancing workload efficiency and user experience.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform offers seamless data mobility, reliability, scalability, and efficient storage management with user-friendly features across industries.
Huawei OceanStor Dorado offers high performance, reliable scalability, and cost-effective storage with exceptional features and technical support.
Its data compression feature is the best that we have ever seen.
Eugene Hemphill
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed.
Enes SUZER
Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.
It was one of the main requirements to have a FlashArray, and this really has sorted out these issues.
Shakeel Qureshi
Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
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It is now as easy as working with EMC or Dell storage, and the performance is better, especially with new features.
Bratislav Petkovic
Team Lead for Core Infrastructure at Raiffeisen bank Serbia
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is a great device that is very stable, very durable, and very simple.
reviewer904212
Solution Architect at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
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The fast performance and reasonable pricing of Huawei OceanStor Dorado are the main reasons we sell them.
Julien GUILLAUMOU
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
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Eugene Hemphill - PeerSpot reviewerEnes SUZER - PeerSpot reviewer
SQ
Bratislav Petkovic - PeerSpot reviewerreviewer904212 - PeerSpot reviewer
JG
 

Categories and Ranking

Pure FlashArray X NVMe
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Ranking in All-Flash Storage
17th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (6th)
Hitachi Virtual Storage Pla...
Ranking in All-Flash Storage
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
55
Ranking in other categories
NAS (5th), Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) (3rd), Frame-Based Disk Arrays (1st), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (5th)
Huawei OceanStor Dorado
Ranking in All-Flash Storage
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the All-Flash Storage category, the mindshare of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is 1.4%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is 3.7%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is 4.4%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
All-Flash Storage Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform3.7%
Huawei OceanStor Dorado4.4%
Pure FlashArray X NVMe1.4%
Other90.5%
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Featured Reviews

Jaehoon Oh - PeerSpot reviewer
Jaehoon Oh
Chief Technology Officer at Lambda256
Supports efficient storage management through volume snapshots and offers reliable non-disruptive upgrades
I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could be enhanced. I can see the performance statistics in the Pure Storage console, but it does not show the performance by 4K byte unit. It displays IOPS and bandwidth, but IOPS is about real use, and I want to know how many IOPS are currently running in 4K byte units. I cannot see that IOPS because most storage systems report their performance by 4K byte unit. I want to see Pure Storage performance by 4K byte unit to compare with other storage or other internal NVMe SSD.
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ANAND V
Associate Vice President at Federal Bank Ltd
Reliable and secure storage solution supports core banking operations effectively
The replication technology that Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform uses is quite older, and the replication methodology they employ for data between the data center and the production and standby database shows no significant improvement in that particular field. With respect to storage administration, I'd like to see more clarity on the encryption side; data being stored in an encrypted manner is essential, but the customer or end-user doesn't understand which encryption is being used and doesn't have a direct view stating that their data is encrypted using AES 256 or DES, or whatever standard they follow. This lack of transparency may not be acceptable during audits.
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Julien GUILLAUMOU
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
Inexpensive with fast performance enhances data storage efficiency
We are using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for Hyper Metro and under Datacore products and some Sunpro products Huawei OceanStor Dorado is fast and has significantly improved data storage efficiency. The fast performance and reasonable pricing of Huawei OceanStor Dorado are the main reasons we sell…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise28
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure FlashArray X NVMe?
Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure FlashArray X NVMe?
The price of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is very expensive, though I do not know the actual price because I am using the E...
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What needs improvement with Pure FlashArray X NVMe?
I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could ...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform?
The cost of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is reasonable compared to competitors, but it is dependent on the custom...
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What do you like most about Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E990?
The product's reliability has been crucial for our company's operations.
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What needs improvement with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E990?
The centralized management console in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is not very comfortable and user-friendly. How...
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What do you like most about Huawei OceanStor Dorado?
The product has the best compression and encryption features. The most valuable features I have found in the tool are...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Huawei OceanStor Dorado?
The products they offer are quite cheap. However, I do not have much information about licensing since we don't buy t...
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What needs improvement with Huawei OceanStor Dorado?
Some customers have reported not understanding how the immutable part can be unlocked. From my perspective, it's not ...
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Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series, 5000 Series, E Series, N Series, G Series
OceanStor Dorado V3 All-Flash Storage System
 

Overview

Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.

Pure Storage

RETHINK YOUR DEFINITION OF SPEED AND PERFORMANCE

With adaptive, guaranteed data reduction and a 100% data-availability guarantee, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F series helps you tackle complicated business challenges. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) VSP F series delivers up to 4.8M IOPS with sub-millisecond response times.
Featuring legendary Hitachi reliability, VSP F series arrays are backed by the industries only 100% availability guarantee. For these reasons, 80% of the Fortune 500 choose Hitachi all-flash arrays to accelerate the performance of mission-critical applications like Oracle, SAP, Virtualization, Microsoft apps etc. With over 350 patents in flash technology, Hitachi’s innovative mix of flash hardware and software accelerates ROI with enterprise-class reliability and performance.

Hitachi Vantara

Huawei's OceanStor Dorado V3 all-flash storage is the ideal choice for enterprises' mission-critical business. It is the industry's first commercial use of NVMe all-flash storage, and it delivers high-performing, reliable, and efficient storage services.

Huawei
 

Sample Customers

Fremont Bank, Judson ISD, The Nielsen Company
Turkcell, Owens Corning, Region Nord, Net Credit Financial Group (NFC Group), Russian Railways
Telecom Italia, Hi3G Sweden, KPN
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