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Extremely Powerful Reporting System with Excellent Data Storage Capacity

Rating: 9 out of 10
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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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Charles Thomas
Materials Planning Manager in Engineering at Signify (10,001+ employees)
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Huawei OceanStor
2 years of experience
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Powerful, High Quality, Easy but Affordable Single Product

Rating: 10 out of 10
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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

Likelihood to Recommend

We connect the Huawei OceanStor SAN device directly to the Huawei Fushion Servers, without using the SAN Switch, with 16 HBA cards in MESH topology. Each of the two controllers has four 16 HBA inputs under the name of SMART IO. In addition, there are two 8 GB extension ports.

VMware virtual machines are running on hosts. Our ERP applications, critical DBs, and business applications are running in these. Again, we use another SAN under a different cluster in the disaster recovery section.
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Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Huawei OceanStor
11 years of experience

Huawei OceanStor Experience

Rating: 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Huawei OceanStor is being used within the data centre to run mission-critical workloads i.e. SAP ECC6 database and application servers. The system being deployed in the data centre SAN environment is the Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 all-flash storage system, which has been configured with Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) disks for maximum performance. Since this is an all-flash system, it addresses performance, reliability, and availability features.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend the Huawei OceanStor, especially the Dorado All-Flash NVMe product line. There are many features and installation is quite simple, and it becomes even simpler if you deploy Huawei OceanStor DJ within your environment.
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Zakarieya Abderoef
Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Baraka Technology Group (51-200 employees)
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Huawei OceanStor
2 years of experience
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