We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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."The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"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."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"The deduplication functionality provided by the solution is fairly good. The speed offered by the product is enough for our organization."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"The most valuable feature of the solution for me is the deduplication part, especially since most of the servers in our organization are Windows-based servers."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"Great value for money."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"The setup and the price are the most valuable and not the features related."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in the rail, as it is hybrid storage."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei OceanStor is the hybrid applications."
"We need better data deduplication."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"It was very new when we first deployed it a year ago. Even the upgrade processes and knowing what to expect, as well as documentation, could be more robust."
"The only area I can highlight for improvement is that the 4:1 data reduction target has not been reached. This may be due to an issue with Dell EMC's initial analysis of data compression. As a result, we have had to add new physical disks to reach our goal of total available disk space."
"More demonstration and training options are needed."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The price is on the higher side."
"There are certain shortcomings with the technical support team of Dell PowerStore, where improvements are required."
"During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us."
"The tool's performance is slow for DBs. We plan to move from Huawei OceanStor to Pure Storage. Its customer service is not good."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"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."
"Unfortunately, this product doesn't support Flash Disks, but it's IOPS capacity is a great compromise."
"Configuration complexity and the tools available."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"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."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 47 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF and Dell XtremIO, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and HPE Primera. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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