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HPE Nimble Storage vs Huawei OceanStor Dorado comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

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
2.5
HPE Nimble Storage boosts performance, reduces downtime and costs, enhancing speed, efficiency, and satisfaction among users across sectors.
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.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
They are, however, available and reliable, so it is a good investment.
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
 

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
8.4
HPE Nimble Storage is praised for responsive, effective support, proactive issue resolution, and knowledgeable engineers, enhanced by InfoSight integration.
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.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
Technical support is good at least through vendors, not directly with the principal.
Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
They are very fast in resolving any issues.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
Huawei's technical support in Romania for Europe is good.
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
 

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
8.2
HPE Nimble Storage provides scalable, modular solutions to expand capacity and performance efficiently, despite limitations compared to top-tier competitors.
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.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
It can adapt to our customers' needs very well.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
There are no issues with performance and latency.
Technical Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
 

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
7.7
Users praise HPE Nimble Storage for reliability and minimal downtime, with efficient support quickly resolving rare hardware 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.
Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees
Sometimes their first and second-tier engineers cannot solve the problem effectively and need to escalate to the third-tier engineer.
Technical Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Support resolves problems normally within one or two hours, which is very good.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
 

Room For Improvement

Pure FlashArray X requires cost-effective improvements in UI, integration, cloud features, multitenancy, analytics, backup, AI, and scalability.
HPE Nimble Storage users seek better scalability, pricing, integration, and interface enhancements, along with active-active arrays and improved replication.
Huawei OceanStor Dorado faces integration, performance, and usability challenges, compounded by licensing and geopolitical issues affecting adoption.
Storage replication should be essential.
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.
Cloud Architect at DXC Technology
One way to improve the product is to add an operational assistant that doesn't depend on VMware.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
Currently, customers need to buy everything together to update, and a little more flexibility would be good for both the customer and the reseller.
Technical Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
I can't activate the system without a cloud connection, which is a bit laggy if I don't have the right firewall settings, making it take longer to implement the storage.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
Some customers have reported not understanding how the immutable part can be unlocked.
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers see Pure FlashArray X NVMe as a justified premium investment due to performance and comprehensive licensing.
HPE Nimble Storage offers competitive all-inclusive pricing, justifies high initial costs with performance, and saves in high IOPS environments.
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.
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.
Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.
Other storage companies are very expensive, similar to HPE Storage.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
The products they offer are quite cheap.
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
 

Valuable Features

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers exceptional performance, reliability, scalability, and seamless VMware integration, enhancing workload efficiency and user experience.
HPE Nimble Storage offers ease of use, integration, high performance, scalability, proactive analytics, reliability, and excellent support.
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.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed.
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.
Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The positive aspects of HPE Nimble Storage include very easy cloud management to identify problems, and it also has the capability to forecast performance in the future.
Technical Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
HPE Nimble Storage support is also very fast and very good.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
The fast performance and reasonable pricing of Huawei OceanStor Dorado are the main reasons we sell them.
Chief Technical Officer at Integra Systems
 

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)
HPE Nimble Storage
Ranking in All-Flash Storage
14th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
122
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
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 HPE Nimble Storage is 2.4%, down from 3.2% 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 (%)
Huawei OceanStor Dorado4.4%
HPE Nimble Storage2.4%
Pure FlashArray X NVMe1.4%
Other91.8%
All-Flash Storage
 

Featured Reviews

Jaehoon Oh - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
TW
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
Replication and dashboard improve system integration efficiency
It's a good product, but the implementation with the new systems is done via the cloud dashboard from HPE. I can't activate the system without a cloud connection, which is a bit laggy if I don't have the right firewall settings, making it take longer to implement the storage. It was better with the old systems, where I could install and activate without cloud connectivity.
JG
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%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
12%
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 Business47
Midsize Enterprise42
Large Enterprise40
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.
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...
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 ...
How does HPE Nimble Storage compare to VxRail?
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI Vs. VxRail One of the best things about the HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is the three, two, one, z...
Which would you choose - HPE Nimble Storage or HPE Primera?
HPE Nimble is a versatile synced WAN San solution. It is easy to use and doesn’t require much training for admins. Th...
What do you like most about HPE Nimble Storage?
The solution's predictive analytics is good. It helps to save costs.
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...
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...
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 ...
 

Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X
Nimble Storage
OceanStor Dorado V3 All-Flash Storage System
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Fremont Bank, Judson ISD, The Nielsen Company
Ace Relocation, Atkins Nutritionals, Berkeley Research Group, Canadian International School, City of Hot Springs, Clackamas County, Corona-Norco Unified School District, Ideal Integrations, Linear Technology, P&O Maritime, Retail Apparel Group (RAG), Virtual Radiologic
Telecom Italia, Hi3G Sweden, KPN
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