We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and IBM FlashSystem 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."We're able to get higher-density workloads on the same infrastructure, and we have a smaller physical footprint. The performance is excellent – during our test the bottlenecks are never on the X array, it just keeps picking up the pace to match what you need. The real-time visibility is a differentiator in my opinion."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The solution is scalable."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"The performance is good."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"The deduplication features and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the solution are the most valuable to me."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"The platform’s most valuable features are speed, accuracy, and encryption."
"The solution's pricing is its most valuable feature."
"The installation and management are very easy."
"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."
"The initial customer technical support was efficient and effective."
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"User friendly management interface."
"The price-performance ratio is most valuable."
"IBM FlashSystem is a flexible solution with plenty of features."
"IBM's technical support do excellent work."
"One of the valuable features is the performance, it is one of the best in the market."
"The performance monitoring feature is useful as it can report in 15 minute intervals by hour, day, week, month, or by a custom date range."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"It is on the expensive side."
"The software layer has to improve."
"The solution's price could be better."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"Having distinct modules for data compression and encryption features enhances flexibility and performance optimization for users with varying requirements."
"There are some limitations to this product because they do not have unified storage."
"The data compression and deduplication ratio of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is not as good as other solutions, such as EMC and Pure Storage. It is important when looking at capacity effectiveness."
"The product could always be faster."
"The localization problem needs to be improved."
"The speeds of the disks themselves need to be faster. The disks are not flash. When we opened our hard drive from the inclusion, I saw a converter, and it's not entirely flash."
"I would like to have a larger disk. Right now, you can get 57 terabytes in a shelf. Once they get the larger disk and you get larger capacities, it'll be even better."
"The solution is quite expensive. That's one of the downsides to using it."
"The solution's pricing is a bit high so there is room for improvement."
"The array level RAID does not seem available."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
"The basic setup can be challenging when it comes to certain IP addresses and the configuration of the IP. You have to go in to different menus to makes changes and ensure it is stable."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"I have looked at a few pages of a report I download and I saw a graph there regarding software-defined vendors. IBM is not in a good position on this graph. I know that they are working very hard on this, to make it much better and to get to a level where it's not only hardware but also software to provide a complete solution."
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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