Huawei OceanStor Reviews

We primarily use the solution in our infrastructure. We use it for storage as well as virtualization.

The support is excellent. 

The solution is stable. 

It can scale. 

The useability is good. It's similar to other storage options on the market.

We would like the solution to provide better documentation. It needs to be more transparent so that we can figure out how to troubleshoot.

The security could be a bit more robust.

I've used the solution since 2014. It's been about eight years. 

The solution is stable. It's reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

While the solution can scale, you do need to pay extra. The more storage you need the more it costs. 

We have ten people using the product. It's largely the IT team.

The solution's support is very helpful and responsive. 

Every time we need to raise the support, they provide support. They are responsive. However, as a customer, we cannot fix anything from our side. The documentation is not available. Everything is in a black box or something. 

Positive

We also use IBM and HP for storage. It's not all Huawei. The usability across all of the solutions is similar. The only difference is the documentation for OceanStor isn't readily available. That said, their support is very responsive. The others require you to go through third parties that will analyze the issues first.

The setup was done by Huawei. I don't have much information on the process of implementation. 

We used Huawei, a third-party, to help with the setup.

I'm not sure of the exact pricing. Our IT team handles the licensing.

We are a customer and end-user.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. 

We use the solution to store corporate data.

The solution has the best data replication features.

The solution's data replication features work slowly for nodes. They should improve this particular area. 

The solution is very stable.

We have 300 solution users in our organization. It is very scalable.

The solution's initial setup process is easy.

I advise others to opt for Huawei products if they want good storage capacity for their organization. I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

One of my customers, a car manufacturing company, uses Huawei OceanStor specifically as a backup target. The backup software they use is compatible and they utilize the storage capacity, which is about three hundred to five hundred units. 

Another use case is for cloud-native applications. The developers use the public store app as their main storage app via the REST API, allowing them to create storage without interacting with the product admin.

The main selling point of Huawei OceanStor is its ability to handle all storage protocols, including block, file, and object. It offers flexibility, allowing you to store all types of data on the machine.

Huawei currently lacks a solution for high-performance AI, unlike other companies like DDN, WekaIO, or IBM BlueStore. From a political perspective, there are issues selling Chinese brands to Western companies, as some may not be permitted to use them.

It has been two years since I managed Huawei OceanStor in 2022.

Huawei OceanStor is stable and reliable for storage solutions.

Huawei OceanStor is capable of scaling up to a few megabytes and is equipped to handle varied network protocols.

Huawei OceanStor's pricing is very aggressive, making it highly competitive.

Companies such as DDN, WekaIO, and IBM BlueStore were considered for AI solutions.

The main advantage of Huawei OceanStor is its aggressive pricing, but there may be potential issues with integration, especially with NVIDIA. This could be due to political restrictions or embargoes.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

We use this solution for the software. The hardware, we design ourselves.

We are resellers. We provide business software and the back-end system is a cross-selling theme for us.

The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related.

On top of the data core environment for software-defined storage, we use machine power and not software technology.

We struggle with finding anything to improve, as it's a powerful solution and is missing nothing.

The energy could be better. I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined.

The interface needs improvement. You have a standardized fiber channel from the past and you have to order a 10 gig interface separately. It would be better to have it all. Huawei has it all in its portfolio, so it can easily be built. They don't have to purchase it, it can be built by themselves.

I have been working with Huawei OceanStor for five years.

We have not contacted technical support because it runs very well. We have not had any issues.

We are also working with Lenovo. Lenovo is in the same price range, but Huawei is a step further.

The implementation is easy because we are educated and experienced in Huawei OceanStor.

Huawei OceanStor is priced very well but is a bit complicated.

You have a price list but have to wait for a discount, which depends on the distribution, where you get it from. This is intransparent, I prefer a clear price policy.

I would prefer having a price quote based on whether you are a reseller if you have silver or gold status, or a customer.

The price list is high and you get a large discount from the price list. I prefer a comparable price list and a smaller discount.

We are always looking for the best solution for the next five years.

I would rate Huawei OceanStor an eight out of ten.

Our customers use it for basic infrastructure.

The performance of the product is valuable. It is a highly available product.

The product must improve the local technical support in China.

I have been using the solution for half a year. I am using the latest version of the solution.

The product must improve its stability.

The tool is easy to scale.

I have used Hitachi Vantara. It is quite similar to Huawei OceanStor.

The initial setup was easy. I could deploy the solution by following the steps given in the document. We access it through our internal website. Two people were required to deploy the solution. It took us half a day. It is not difficult to maintain the tool.

The product has a good price.

Overall, I rate the tool an eight and a half out of ten.

Huawei OceanStor is used as a data organization and storage system.

Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies.

I would prefer if the diagnostics of our Huawei solutions in the data center are automatically shared with the manufacturer. This will enable them to proactively address concerns before they become serious, and reach out to us without the need for us to initiate a call.

The speed has room for improvement.

I have been using Huawei OceanStor for three years.

Huawei OceanStor is stable.

Huawei OceanStor is scalable.

The technical support is slow.

We faced some difficulties during the initial setup because of the insufficient support provided by Huawei.

When compared to other options on the market, Huawei OceanStor stands out as the most affordable solution. Payment is determined by the amount of storage capacity required, and we have paid 50,000 euros for our usage.

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

We have over 1,000 end-users.

Huawei OceanStor is an affordable and effective solution. I recommend that organizations conduct thorough research and compare it with other products before making a decision.

We have about 20 customers using Huawei OceanStor. Each has a different use case. Some use it for storage, virtualization storage and some are using the apps, the pure storage data for intelligent vision products.

Oceanstor brings to us the best performance as storage for our virtualization cluster, allowing a better performance in the apps that need to manipulate a huge amout of data.

The easy of operational management of OceanStor is one of the most valuable feature. It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution.

OceanStor could use improvement with configuration and synchronizing with other vendors. There is some latency in the migration due to the amount of data. 

I would like to see more iterations and direct integration with solutions like Docker and Kubernetes. Also, if the customer needs to make a special solution or have an additional process for analyzing data directly on the storage using data technology, they should be able to do that.

I have been using OceanStor for twelve years. First, 10 years as a final customer and 2 years as a sales partner

OceanStor is a stable product.

Scalability is fine you can add to cluster other superior version or older version, and the orices is the same as the identical model and version. The OceanStor support the fail until 7 of 8 controllers without lost data and wiht the minimal impact to the performance, so the performance has been very good.

We have good support from Huawei, any concerns are resolved very quickly.

Positive

Before OceanStor, I used Dell-EMC, HPE 3PAR, Inspur, Openfiler, TrueNAS, FreeNAS. The initial switch was a gift and we use for replace a SAN Software, later we decide replace all professional storage by OceanStor

OceanStor is easy to deploy. We are Co-Care certified partner, and we are CSP 3 star, so we have direct access to Huawei helping us to have a better support internally and for customers

Huawei have de better price, an intuitive and easy UI for maintance and operation, and the license mechanism is perpetual, you don´t need to paying all years 

Others who are looking to implement Huawei OceanStor should install first and after that go ahead and reset the configuration. In most common operations, this would be the first step to getting to know the product. 

I rate OceanStor a 10 out of 10.

We are integrators so we're selling this solution to our customers. Many are from the transportation sector, public broadcasting sector, or they are service providers. They use it for internal IT systems. Our clients cover the full range from small to enterprise size companies. We are a gold partner with Huawei and I'm an IT solution architect. 

Most clients tell us that the most valuable feature of the solution is the value for money. They feel that they receive numerous great features for a reasonble price. IBM and HP charge a lot more for what OceanStor customers get as part of the product. 

There are some small things in the solution that can be improved. Supporting software is one of them and the integration with mainstream solution technologies could be better. They are small issues and generally the technology functions well. It's not an issue caused by the vendor but rather due to external circumstances and the cessation of cooperation between Chinese and US companies. 

I've been using this solution for about eight years. 

It's a very stable solution. 

The scalability is an easy process. It has a good capacity. 

Technical support is good, we're very satisfied with it. 

Initial setup is very straightforward and easy. Deployment takes no more than 10 or 15 minutes. It takes three or four people from our company and the client company to carry out deployment. We carry out maintenance, it usually takes three people. 

I would recommend everyone to try the product, they will be surprised at how good it is. 

I would rate this product a nine out of 10.