EMC VNX (Discontinued) vs. Huawei OceanStor

If you are looking for a solid storage array that needs to give you continuous uptime, then VNX is a great solution.

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Easy tools for the user to set and flexibility of the functionalities is amazing and Huawei OceanStor can migrate a group of different data from other third parties platforms easily and generation of excellent data analytics through Huawei OceanStor is also easy and profitable. The environment on which the user can manage multiple data through Huawei OceanStor is incredible.

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• Auto- tiering, for faster access on blocks used most frequently
• Has both NAS and SAN ( unified system)
• Scale up ability
• Optimal for VMware
• Integrates with vCenter
• Easy monitoring and useful dashboards
• Relatively easy configure and management interface with safe delete

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• 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.

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• The UI is very clunky and uses Java, which I am not a big fan of.
• It is difficult to see performance metrics or utilization. Tegile or Nimble provide a superior window into your performance and IOPS on LUNs and VMs.

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• 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.

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When purchasing support for your Huawei OceanStor system, there are two support options offered by Huawei (i.e. Hi-Care and Co-Care). Huawei Hi-Care service is when Huawei responds to your technical requests for remote troubleshooting and advance hardware replacement in the shortest possible time. Hi-Care provides onsite technical support to help you maintain a more efficient and stable network environment and improve network productivity. Whereas, Huawei Co-Care service is a collaborative solution delivered by Huawei certified partners. Depending on the capability of your Huawei support partners, I would recommend Hi-Care for mission-critical environments since this ensures Huawei takes responsibility for meeting the support SLAs. If you have very capable Huawei support partners, then Co-care could be a more cost-effective support option.

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• Dell EMC Unity is the improved version of EMC VNX. It has all the features in VNX with better performance.
• NetApp all flash is faster and more expensive. It performs better with Citrix systems and VDI solutions.
• HP MSA storage system is less performant and less expensive. It works better for file and CCTV data storage.

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The Huawei OceanStor product line is very broad and they offer a wide range of storage systems from entry-level for the small enterprise to high-end storage systems for those demanding workloads typically required at medium to large enterprises. Huawei OceanStor is very reliable with many software features at competitive costs when compared to other storage systems. Huawei OceanStor can easily integrate within the data centre as their system supports many operating systems, hypervisors, SAN switches etc. Another important point to note is that Huawei has made it known that they spend a substantial amount of their revenue in R&D and that is confirmed in the reliability of their products.

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• Due to its stability, it is very rare to have downtime—meaning business operations are not interrupted from an infrastructure level.
• Support and maintenance can be expensive.

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• 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

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