Product Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reseller
Top 5
2024-11-12T10:54:57Z
Nov 12, 2024
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.
In terms of marketing, they need to improve by putting more effort into making people aware of their products, especially in our region. Additionally, they need to push more, increase their partner network, and improve their installation process.
Pre-Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
2024-08-08T06:06:18Z
Aug 8, 2024
In the storage part, OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage is the best in Pakistan since all of the major banks, big government organizations, big defense organizations, and all others are satisfied with its performance. OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage is the best among all the other storage regarding NetApp, Dell, and EMC. When it comes to the technical support team, I feel that the response time is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required.
Infrastructure Administrator - Server, Storage & Virtualization at MicroAccess Ltd
Real User
Top 5
2024-06-06T15:47:00Z
Jun 6, 2024
They should introduce a feature to Huawei OceanStor similar to a storage controller, allowing for seamless integration of additional storage modules. If you want to scale up or scale out, you can easily incorporate new storage modules into the OceanStor solution without incurring significant additional costs, unlike the initial investment required for the primary storage solution. Similar to HP's solution, where you can simply add disk drives, you would be able to connect new storage modules to the existing system without having to spend as much as you did on the original storage solution, which includes the controller.
Data Center Solutions Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reseller
Top 10
2024-05-14T17:57:29Z
May 14, 2024
The price could be better. It's not good for the Brazilian market. I think it would be better suited for enterprise markets, not for small businesses. We do not have good software for hands-on protection or cloud interconnect for migration. OceanStor is not so good to integrate with the cloud directly, like NetApp and others. Huawei is not so good for these features.
The solution needs to improve the compression side of their application. Also, they don't offer any virtual machine-based features, which Unity has built-in. But I haven't seen it in OceanStor. In fact, the Recovery Point is not required in Dell EMC Unity if you are using a native VMware application with Unity. But here in OceanStor, we need the site Recovery Manager, SRM. So, SRM is required when we are using the OceanStor. That DR capability has not been built in OceanStor as yet.
Cloud Architect at ESDS Software Solution Pvt Ltd.
Real User
Top 5
2023-08-22T10:31:00Z
Aug 22, 2023
The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage. It would be beneficial if they would enhance the option to utilize the remaining space if it's left.
Head of Data Centre Solutions at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-07-12T12:49:40Z
Jul 12, 2023
Huawei OceanStor should work on its saturation level and should be able to take up more load. It should give the same performance that it gives at 20 or 30 percent load for 80 percent as well.
Architect at a recreational facilities/services company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-04-19T11:53:00Z
Apr 19, 2023
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.
Computer Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2022-10-04T10:03:15Z
Oct 4, 2022
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.
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.
Technical Support Executive at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Reseller
2021-09-27T12:55:02Z
Sep 27, 2021
I cannot recall coming across areas that need specific improvements. Technical support could be more helpful. I'd like to see some cloning or snapshot functionality in the near future.
Technology Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2020-11-27T18:53:20Z
Nov 27, 2020
The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused. The V6 has already been improved and is much simpler, but the V3 is not.
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.
IT Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2019-09-29T07:27:00Z
Sep 29, 2019
The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well. In the next release, they should have encryption. Compliance is a very big thing in security. If we got encryption in the boxes, clients would be satisfied. We'd also like to see deduplication, compression, and NVMe capabilities.
Data Center Presales Engineer at Integrated Solutions
MSP
2019-07-09T05:26:00Z
Jul 9, 2019
The management is not a good feature in all of Huawei products. It's not easy or simple. Huawei has some problems with management and handling storage information from one interface. Technical support needs improvement. It would be helpful if there was more support in my country. I'm from Poland and there's no big Huawei support here. We are a country and we have only two technical people from Huawei. Sometimes it's not enough.
OceanStor Dorado V3 is the industry's first all-flash storage that puts NVMe into commercial use. It is specially designed for enterprises' mission-critical businesses, meeting the most-demanding performance and reliability requirements of databases, VDI, server virtualization, and SAP HANA.
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.
In terms of marketing, they need to improve by putting more effort into making people aware of their products, especially in our region. Additionally, they need to push more, increase their partner network, and improve their installation process.
A concern with OceanStor is pricing. However, apart from that, there are no significant limitations or technical issues.
In the storage part, OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage is the best in Pakistan since all of the major banks, big government organizations, big defense organizations, and all others are satisfied with its performance. OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage is the best among all the other storage regarding NetApp, Dell, and EMC. When it comes to the technical support team, I feel that the response time is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required.
They should introduce a feature to Huawei OceanStor similar to a storage controller, allowing for seamless integration of additional storage modules. If you want to scale up or scale out, you can easily incorporate new storage modules into the OceanStor solution without incurring significant additional costs, unlike the initial investment required for the primary storage solution. Similar to HP's solution, where you can simply add disk drives, you would be able to connect new storage modules to the existing system without having to spend as much as you did on the original storage solution, which includes the controller.
The price could be better. It's not good for the Brazilian market. I think it would be better suited for enterprise markets, not for small businesses. We do not have good software for hands-on protection or cloud interconnect for migration. OceanStor is not so good to integrate with the cloud directly, like NetApp and others. Huawei is not so good for these features.
The solution’s reporting could be improved.
The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved. We must be able to keep the snapshots for a specific time period.
The solution needs to improve the compression side of their application. Also, they don't offer any virtual machine-based features, which Unity has built-in. But I haven't seen it in OceanStor. In fact, the Recovery Point is not required in Dell EMC Unity if you are using a native VMware application with Unity. But here in OceanStor, we need the site Recovery Manager, SRM. So, SRM is required when we are using the OceanStor. That DR capability has not been built in OceanStor as yet.
The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage. It would be beneficial if they would enhance the option to utilize the remaining space if it's left.
The product must improve the local technical support in China.
Huawei OceanStor should work on its saturation level and should be able to take up more load. It should give the same performance that it gives at 20 or 30 percent load for 80 percent as well.
We need help with the solution's storage capacity. They could provide more disk space.
The solution's data replication features work slowly for nodes. They should improve this particular area.
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.
The overall price of the solution should be reduced.
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.
In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good 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.
We experienced a little latency with this solution.
The solution could improve by having better integration.
I cannot recall coming across areas that need specific improvements. Technical support could be more helpful. I'd like to see some cloning or snapshot functionality in the near future.
The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused. The V6 has already been improved and is much simpler, but the V3 is not.
I'd like to see a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system for issues and resolution in the future.
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.
The GUI is the only thing I would like to see improved, and the user interface is not so user friendly.
Technical support could be improved on the solution.
The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well. In the next release, they should have encryption. Compliance is a very big thing in security. If we got encryption in the boxes, clients would be satisfied. We'd also like to see deduplication, compression, and NVMe capabilities.
The management is not a good feature in all of Huawei products. It's not easy or simple. Huawei has some problems with management and handling storage information from one interface. Technical support needs improvement. It would be helpful if there was more support in my country. I'm from Poland and there's no big Huawei support here. We are a country and we have only two technical people from Huawei. Sometimes it's not enough.