We performed a comparison between HPE Primera 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."It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of deployment."
"For over a year, I have not seen any downtime in the product."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"The greatest advantage is the support when we encounter incidents, as HPE's support is highly responsive."
"It is a stable and scalable solution with quick and efficient storage capability."
"Primera's main advantage is its support for NVM drives and normal flash drives. It has some sort of AI analysis that automatically tells us how to optimize the performance."
"The performance of the solution is good."
"HPE Primera has good integration. All the users are using HP servers and some systems, such as Synergy, which integrate well into the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"Great value for money."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"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've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"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."
"This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market."
"There are certain shortcomings in the technical support offered by HPE where improvements are required."
"We face challenges with false alarms, particularly daily alerts related to replication link breaks. I'm not happy with the customer service and support."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly in that sense that installation and management are still a bit on the high end."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"Increasing the IOPS and throughput values would make the product even better. Improving the scalability of HPE Primera is also recommended."
"Primera should be more user-friendly."
"The product must improve the local technical support in China."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"I would like to see more integration features with different platforms."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"Huawei is not that cheap."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and NetApp NVMe AFF A800, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE Nimble Storage. See our HPE Primera vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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