HPE Primera's valuable features include InfoSight for predictive analytics, ease of deployment, good performance, AI-driven management, high availability, low latency, strong integration with other software, robust compression, replication, and deduplication capabilities. Users appreciate its user-friendly dashboards, system reliability, scalability, flash storage speed, and all-inclusive hardware features. HPE Primera delivers excellent IOPS, useful data protection, consistent performance, and simple setup.
- "The system is stable, particularly with mission-critical solutions in place."
- "HPE Primera is quite a stable storage system that provides good provisioning and allows for the changing of partition sizes."
- "HPE Primera is used for shared storage."
HPE Primera requires improvements in software integration and capacity expansion. An enhanced user interface and simplified deployment could benefit users. The cost is considered high, making it less appealing to smaller enterprises. NVMe drive support, IO throughput, and deduplication are lacking compared to competitors. Users report issues with technical support response times, false alarms, and a need for NAS capabilities. The reporting features and training options need advancements for better user experience.
- "When we asked for HPE support to resolve issues, their help was punctual and on time. However, the depth of root cause analysis provided was not satisfying."
- "The solution's compression ratio feature could be improved."
- "Recently, we had many issues with HPE Primera storage, mainly in the leveling process, which caused many problems for the customers."