We performed a comparison between Huawei OceanStor Dorado and IBM FlashSystem 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."It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"The initial setup was extremely simple and straightforward."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"The performance is good."
"The solution's pricing is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SmartMigration, HyperReplication, HyperSnap, HyperCopy, HyperClone, SmartPartition, and SmartCache."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature for me is that it deduces better, whereby it can be assigned six times the usable capacity, depending on the nature of the data."
"The speed and the ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"Data deduplication is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The storage system is one of the best in the world."
"Virtualization of external storage, while adding cache and speed to the external storage."
"The technical support for this solution is good. They used to help us when the motherboard of Power Systems broke. Their response times are really fast."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and performance."
"User friendly management interface."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, which together, enable you to have more space."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"Right now, the box itself is just strictly working as a backend storage system. It would be fantastic if we could access it directly like a NAS device through network access or SIS drives. I think they have an interface, but I am not sure how good it is. If we could address a box directly on the network without having to go through a server, it would be great. The replication schemas could be improved. We are not using replication on the storage level right now. We use a different type of replication. If their replication would be as good as the one that we have, I would probably run the replication schema because it might be faster, but I don't know that for a fact. So, I cannot say that they have good replication. All I can say is that they need to inform us better."
"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."
"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."
"I would really like to see Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization in a future release."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve by having a multi-tier cloud option and additional protocols"
"This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0."
"One of the key areas that need enhancement pertains to the software procurement process."
"The built-in reporting tools need some enhancement."
"Having distinct modules for data compression and encryption features enhances flexibility and performance optimization for users with varying requirements."
"The customer's expectations are what they get on the cloud, they're expecting even in the on-premises deployments, going forward."
"Product support is restricted to IBM only. It must be decentralized to IBM partners as well."
"The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"In IBM FlashSystem, data reduction is an area with shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"Enterprise data storage needs improvement. They should create a feature for data and file storage."
"The interface of this solution could be improved."
"The price is very costly."
"Events/log analysis tools."
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 32 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. Huawei OceanStor Dorado is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray and HPE Primera, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell Unity XT and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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