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Huawei OceanStor

Score8.9 out of 10

9 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Huawei OceanStor?

Huawei offers OceanStor Dorado, an all-flash storage system boasting a wide range of applications and versatility to meet the needs SMBs, larger enterprises, or vertical industry applications.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Huawei OceanStor has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Flash Array Performance

    Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives

    Category average: 9.7

  • Flash Array Integration

    Integration with hypervisors and applications

    Category average: 9.2

  • Data Compression

    Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades

    Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required

    Category average: 9.3

  • Simplicity

    Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training

    Category average: 9

  • Power Savings

    Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives

    Category average: 8.1

Reviews

What users are saying about Huawei OceanStor.
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Extremely Powerful Reporting System with Excellent Data Storage Capacity

Incentivized
Charles ThomasView profile
Materials Planning Manager in Engineering at Signify (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Perfect storage system which provides multiple functionalities and very easy for all users. The training on how to use Huawei OceanStor is effective and great short learning curve and even reliable technical help on the first time, they help on easy implementation of Huawei OceanStor. The software allows easy production of reliable data insights and easy to manage important business information and protect client information and the capacity offered is enough.

Pros

  • Data management features.
  • Planning tools are flexible.
  • Configuration functionalities are effective.
  • Insights collection features capabilities is amazing.

Cons

  • Support desk to be available.
  • Implementation to new people is not that easy.
  • Setting of the advance features on Huawei OceanStor may not be easy to all users.

Return on Investment

  • Searching of information is effective and faster.
  • Different data type storage.
  • Analytics provided are valuable.
  • Reporting is easy.

Other Software Used

Veeam on IBM Cloud, Storyblok, Pantheon

Huawei OceanStor Experience

Incentivized
Zakarieya AbderoefView profile
Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Baraka Technology Group (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • The Huawei OceanStor Dorado All Flash NVMe storage array provides maximum performance.
  • The OceanStor Dorado is ideally suited for use with databases, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Virtual Machines, and file server environments.
  • The capital and maintenance costs were very competitive for a similar storage system at other storage vendors.

Cons

  • The licensing needs to be explained better. There is not much information about how the licensing works for the OceanStor, and what I found was a vague summary and not clearly explained. This became a problem when we deployed the system and realized we needed an additional migration license.

Return on Investment

  • OceanStor Dorado All Flash Small footprint saving data centre rack space
  • Maximum Return on Investment since you can order this with extended Hi-Care or Co-Care maintenance and support.
  • OceanStor Dorado All Flash uses less power than traditional spinning disks, thus saving you on power costs.

Alternatives Considered

IBM XIV, IBM Spectrum Storage, IBM Storwize, IBM Spectrum Virtualize, Dell EMC Unity, Dell EMC Avamar, PowerProtect DD (formerly Dell EMC Data Domain), Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage, Cisco UCS B-Series, Cisco UCS C-Series, Cisco UCS E-Series and Western Digital SSD

Other Software Used

Hyper-V, Nutanix AOS, Veeam Backup & Replication, Azure Backup

Powerful, High Quality, Easy but Affordable Single Product

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Huawei OceanStor Dorado5000 V3 is used as the main SAN storage device of our virtual servers on VMware, serving the whole of our organization. The device has a very stable working structure and we have been using it for years without having to perform any maintenance or operation after installation. It's much faster than its competitors in terms of performance thanks to all flash NVME technology. In addition, it is much more affordable than its competitors.

Pros

  • Deduplication and compression ratios are awesome
  • Simple and easy management interface
  • reliability, adaptability, scalability
  • It has a much more affordable price compared to devices of the same class with its cost
  • High IOPS values

Cons

  • In thin provisioned disk structure, I would like it to give an estimated date when the full capacity will be reached according to the usage status
  • Reporting could be easier

Return on Investment

  • Cost of ownership is advantageous compared to other products
  • Can significantly reduce the cost with compression and deduplication
  • Energy consumption is low, as it shows on its own dashboard a monthly average of 301.25 kWh

Alternatives Considered

IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems), PowerProtect DD (formerly Dell EMC Data Domain), Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage and IBM FlashSystem 7200 (formerly Storwize V7000)

Other Software Used

Zerto, Azure Backup, Huawei FusionServer X Series