We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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 standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"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."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable."
"Even through upgrades, there is no downtime, not even a hiccup for users."
"The most valuable features are the duplication and compression traffic. We have second storage that we can use for the synchronization of data between the data centers."
"Their remote management and understanding when things are starting to go wrong and their ability to fix them before the customer even knows, this has been a big positive when a customer makes the decision to go with Nimble"
"InfoSight. It's AI for the data center. It's very easy, it does a lot of the work for the customer... InfoSight and the whole system, help them to deal with troubleshooting."
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"Our upgrades are seamless. Whether we're adding storage, or upgrading the software, we don't take an outage for those upgrades."
"The deduplication and compression capabilities are powerful."
"The customer support is helpful."
"The primary factors that make Huawei OceanStor Dorado Series highly valuable to us are its competitive pricing, exceptional performance, and stability."
"The solution is scalable."
"There are plenty of features available in this solution."
"The product offers good performance."
"The most valuable features are the five chips architecture and the purpose-built NVMe hard disk drive. Additionally, the IOPS feature is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"The integrated Huawei Flash technology within OceanStor Dorado stands out as one of the most valuable features."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
"We need better data deduplication."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"I really would like to see synchronous replication. This is something that when we have multiple arrays in our environment and being able to do something like a zero RPO."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"They should add a feature to the platform to help us manage storage communication with one of the vendors."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"There are some limitations to this product because they do not have unified storage."
"The product could always be faster."
"Engineers with two to three years of experience with Huawei will find that Huawei OceanStor Dorado is a bit complicated to use compared to other Huawei storages."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"The localization problem needs to be improved."
"I would like to see them improve their IOPS per second to match their contemporaries in the industry."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and NetApp NVMe AFF A800. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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