Huawei OceanStor Dorado Reviews

We primarily use the solution for a customer's company. We're resellers. 

The compression on offer is the most valuable aspect of the solution at this time. 

Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with its functionality. 

The initial setup is very easy.

I've found the solution to be stable.

The product can scale.

I've been satisfied with the level of attention I'm given when I reach out to technical support. 

The solution is affordable and reasonably priced. It offers good value for money.

I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release. 

I've been using the solution for almost one and a half years. It hasn't been that long just yet.

The solution has been stable. I have not experienced bugs or glitches and I wouldn't say that I've ever seen it crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

The solution is scalable so far. If a company needs to expand it, it can.

We typically work with medium-sized organizations and enterprises. 

So far, technical support has been great I have no complaints. they are helpful and responsive. 

I've worked with HP, Dell, Lenovo, Hitachi, and NetApp. Out of all of these, I still prefer to use Dorado. 

The solution is not overly complex or difficult in terms of the initial implementation. It's pretty simple and straightforward. 

Deployment takes about two and a half hours or so. It's not a long period of time. 

The pricing has been very reasonable. I wouldn't describe it as expensive. Likely, any company would find the solution to be affordable. 

I'm a reseller and consultant. 

I'd a good solution that offers very good value for money. 

I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten. 

We are looking at selling OceanProtect to a major retailer in South Africa, and they are using it for Oracle workloads, SQL workloads, and VMWare and IBM AIX Power servers.

We are a Huawei partner and we predominantly sell storage, hence we are looking at OceanProtect which competes with other products, like Dell Data Domain, NEC HYDRAstor, etc. Pricing is a significant factor, but everyone's pricing is really good, making it less of a differentiator.

The localization problem needs to be improved.

We have to speak with Chinese resources, and sometimes there is a bit of a language barrier.

There is a need for more local people with the necessary knowledge about the product set to present to ourselves and customers.

We have been a Huawei partner for 12 months.

We haven't run in an environment as of yet, but we have heard that it is quite stable where customers have deployed this solution.

I rate the solution’s stability a seven out of ten.

I rate the solution’s scalability a seven out of ten.

The customer support is helpful.

Neutral

We have sold other storage solutions before.

Huawei approached our company and asked us to test Huawei OceanStor Dorado's storage. We thoroughly tested the product for safety, security, and stability before signing up as a partner.

The initial setup was reasonably easy.

I rate the pricing a six on a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive, not cost-effective, and ten is cheap.

I recommend this solution. 

Overall, I rate the solution seven out of ten.

My customers are using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for data storage.

easy to deploy, good price, nice features

deduplication but first,  hypermetro 

best compression , best end user interface, more easy to use.

I have been using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for a couple of years.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado is a stable solution.

The solution is scalable.

In France, we have 10 clients using this solution.

The technical support has been good.

Positive

I am reseller for Huawei

The initial installation was straightforward.

Our IT team did the implementation of the solutions.

The implementation and maintenance are done by two technicians.

n/a

It's not easy to receive an upgrade license of Huawei OceanStor Dorado. It's easy to buy OceanStor with several features, but when you want to add on features later it's not easy. I had some problems.

no

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Huawei OceanStor Dorado a eight out of ten.

We primarily use it for on-premises storage.

I'm using it with VMware and then with AIX systems, AIX power systems, and VMware as the VMFS.

Overall, it works fine. 

It's really easy to use. Its interface is very good. 

The solution can scale.

The initial setup is very straightforward. 

With Huawei Durado we have some issues regarding the connectivity with the AIX system. It should have easy connectivity with the AIX, however, I've found that with AIX, it has some issues and due to this, we need to remove the exact fiber card sometimes and then plug it in again so that it can connect with the AIX systems.

IBM flash is much better than Huawei, with respect to the response time and performance.

One thing that is really a little annoying is the graphical interface regarding the performance and iOS. That is a little complicated. The GUI could be better with respect to performance.

With in-place upgrades, the data should really be right on the desktop. If you want to move to the next version of the box, for example, if I have a Durado 3000 and want to move towards a 6000 version, it should have an in-place upgrade, rather than a complete migration requirement.

I've used the solution for around two years or so.

The solution is scalable. It has two controllers and if I want to move to the next version, it's in place. However, an upgrade is not possible with Durado.

To date, we have not needed support. Fortunately, right now, there has been no hardware failure or system failure. It's been very good in terms of working without issues, therefore, I can't speak to any knowledge of how technical support works. I've never dealt with them. 

We also use IBM, and I find its performance to be better. It also has better response times. 

The initial setup is straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

The deployment process is very short. It just takes ten to 20 minutes. It's very fast. It's shouldn't take any longer than that. 

I'm already a technical person, so I don't find any difficulty with the setup process. I can handle it myself. I do not need an integrator or consultant to assist me. 

I had all the licenses initially bought. I couldn't speak to the licensing, as I have bought all the licenses initially.

I'm a customer and an end-user.

I'd recommend the solution to others. It's good storage. It is compatible with other operating systems. IBM has much better performance in the same category box, however. I rank the IBM option much higher. 

In general, I would rate this product at an eight out of ten.

We are an IT distributor and this is one of the storage solutions that we implement for our clients. The primary use case is for VMware virtualization, although it is also used for database system storage. Oracle and other SQL databases require a lot of performance in terms of IO per second, which is met by using OceanStore Dorado.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio. It is a very good price compared to other products and taking the performance into account, it is probably the best price-to-performance ratio on the market right now.

This solution is easy to manage and storage can be provisioned in a very easy way.

The logistics can be improved because sometimes we have to wait a long time for the product to be delivered, despite there being stores available in Europe. Some of our customers are discouraged due to this long wait time.

The marketing for this product needs to be improved because it does not have enough exposure.

This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0. However, I do not feel that this is necessary.

I have about a year and a half of experience with OceanStor Dorado.

The product is stable. We have not had any complaints about the features or stability of this solution from our customers.

I have not been in contact with technical support, and I have not heard that any of our customers have needed to contact them either.

I am also familiar with Pure Storage. They have a nice product and they concentrate only on storage solutions. It is very easy to manage, as well.

I have also worked with storage solutions by Fujitsu and HPE.

The initial setup is short and rather straightforward. One person can do it on their own.

The length of time required for deployment varies depending on how complex the environment is. For example, the simple provision of storage is very easy, but it is always connected through some kind of SAN so it can take time. However, the product itself takes an hour, at most, to deploy.

We are the distributors for this product and our resellers are the ones who do the implementation and deployment.

There are lots of features included with this solution and some of them require additional licensing, such as creating high availability storage using a cluster.

In Poland, cloud-based workloads are just starting to be adopted. For the time being, the majority of solutions are still deployed on-premises.

Overall, this is a good product that performs well and is easy to manage. Everything that is required by the market, this product already has.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado is used for storing data.

We can use Huawei OceanStor Dorado capacity storage for many different purposes.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols.

I have been using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for approximately two months.

The solution is stable.

The implementation was simple.

The price of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is very inexpensive, it cost approximately $5 per gigabyte.

I rate Huawei OceanStor Dorado a seven out of ten.

Huawei has good pricing. It also has its SSD and NVMe hard drives. The company also develops its testing tools. It also has enough instances.

If you need a cluster for tool storage, you don't need any additional source area network switches. Only a network with sufficient bandwidth is required for the clusters. Huawei's setup is capable of operating on standard networks. However, it is incompatible with Nimble, Dell, or IBM networks.

I have been using Huawei OceanStor Dorado since 1998. We are using the latest update of the solution.

I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.

The solution’s scalability is high. It is deployed on small and medium businesses.

I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.

The customer support is excellent.

Positive

The initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete. The configuration is easy.

The product is cheaper for small businesses but expensive for middle businesses. It's the same as IBM and Dell.

I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado is used for backing up data.

Most of the features which all enterprises storages solutions have are available in Huawei OceanStor Dorado.

The user interface of Huawei OceanStor Dorado could be more user-friendly. Other solutions, such as EMC, have a better user interface.

We have experienced some minor issues with the integration of the solution.

I have been using Huawei OceanStor Dorado for approximately two years.

Stability and reliability are the most important feature of Huawei OceanStor Dorado. It does not crash, or give any errors.

The scalability of this solution is very good.

I would rate the technical support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado a ten out of ten.

The local engineers are helpful. They go to the customers' site location to assist. Remote support is also available, but our customers prefer on-premises support.

I have used many other solutions from different vendors, such as Cisco, EMC, HP, and Dell.

The deployment of EMC is on one click. Huawei deployment is a little complex and could be simplified.

We are mostly trained in Cisco, EMC, HP, and Dell. This is why we had some problems. 

Huawei has integration tools and their support team did everything for us, it went very smoothly.

The price of the solution is reasonable. There is not a vendor that offers an All-Flash Storage Array at the price of Huawei OceanStor Dorado. The other solutions are approximately 50% higher.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado does a great job in providing all the major features other enterprise-level solutions offer but at a reduced price. It is a reliable product and you can have peace of mind.

If you have proper planning then the solution will work well. However, if the company does not want a Chinese product they do not have to purchase it.

I rate Huawei OceanStor Dorado a nine out of ten.