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Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage System vs VMAX [EOL] comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Huawei OceanStor V3 Storage...
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
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Frame-Based Disk Arrays (4th)
VMAX [EOL]
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
16
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Featured Reviews

reviewer1456134 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager Applications at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Offers good support but there are issues with the language barrier
Huawei has a lot of penetration into accounts in Islamabad and the whole region, especially in Islamabad, because this is where our capital is, this is where most of the government offices are. They have a really nice marketing team that keeps on promoting all of their successes over various platforms. They are relatively cheaper when it comes to cloud services but they have a few weaknesses at the same time. IBM has AI tools and they have IBM Watson and Huawei doesn't. If you compare our deployment team from IBM versus our technical team from Huawei, with IBM we have five people, and for Huawei, we have 20 people. There is a major difference because you're getting more business from Huawei compared to IBM. We have a separate team for administration, installation, configuration, storage, and cloud.
Ali Yazıcı - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank
Good interface that is customizable, and the technical support is good
Our primary use of this product is for our core banking servers over FC It is a high end storage, minimal downtime, reliable, good performance, get speedy support when we need. The user interface is good, and it is also customizable. snap and clone operations easy.  Stability and availability…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Considering the penetration that they have in the market, I would recommend Huawei."
"Huawei has a lot of penetration into accounts in Islamabad and the whole region, especially in Islamabad, because this is where our capital is, this is where most of the government offices are."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"If someone is looking for a product that can give the best performance under heavy load then this is the product they must go for."
"Customer Service: Excellent. Technical Support: Excellent."
"This solution is resilient."
"The most valuable features are the interface and performance."
"VMAX is more scalable and has better performance (gives more IOPS, more front end ports...)."
"VMAX is a rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"Resilience, speed, flexibility, system reliability, and a strong refresh strategy are the most valuable features."
 

Cons

"It is an expensive product. They should lower the price."
"When we sell Huawei to our customers, they always have some support issues, probably because of the language barrier."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"The only draw back is you don’t get multiple point in time copies."
"I'm always interested in ways we can scale out and avoid monolithic migrations from one array to another every four to five years."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that Dell EMC vPlex offers."
"Cost of the hardware tends to be high, however, you do get what you pay for."
"Be aware that buying a Symmetrix VMAX is like owning a McLaren F1 race car; consider yourself lucky to drive it at the track since everything else must be performed by McLaren."
"The cluster support should be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Our licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis."
"There are additional costs to the standard licensing fee, and it just depends on the package."
"Our licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
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Top Industries

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Performing Arts
16%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
 

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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise17
 

Also Known As

OceanStor T-Series, OceanStor 18000 Series, OceanStor 6800, OceanStor 5000 Series, OceanStor 2000 Series
Symmetrix VMAX
 

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Sample Customers

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Wentworth-Douglas Hospital, Kindred Healthcare, Cosentry, Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, Shriners, BZWBK
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