We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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 most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"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."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"The solution is scalable."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"It's a great product. Integrating PowerStore with the IT workflow is easy."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"The solution's technical support is excellent. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Its flexibility is valuable because we have had some moments where we had to adapt, and it has been quite flexible."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"The solution's pricing is its most valuable feature."
"The performance is good."
"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 features of the solution are SmartMigration, HyperReplication, HyperSnap, HyperCopy, HyperClone, SmartPartition, and SmartCache."
"It is very easy to use."
"The installation and management are very easy."
"This is a stable product that we can use for DR in production."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the price to performance ratio."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"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."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"The pricing could be lower. It is very expensive."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"After the smooth launch of the product in our company, only the areas around upgrades are a bit problematic. In our organization, we face difficulties when updating the product."
"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."
"Could use some additional automation."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"This solution does not support VMware VVols 2.0."
"The built-in reporting tools need some enhancement."
"The data compression and deduplication ratio of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is not as good as other solutions, such as EMC and Pure Storage. It is important when looking at capacity effectiveness."
"This solution can improve by providing easier migrations and better Metro features."
"If they implement a backup solution directly into the OceanStor then it will be a valuable feature."
"The solution needs to improve its integration."
"The localization problem needs to be improved."
"Huawei OceanStor Dorado could improve the integration, there have been some compatibility issues with some operating system functions."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 47 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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 Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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