HPE StoreOnce Reviews

Most of our client base is between fifty to five hundred end users. We occasionally recommend high-end HPE products for larger clients needing performance and reliability. Our clients predominantly use HPE StoreOnce for small business purposes in industries like dairy and finance.

Our clients have been very pleased with their investment in StoreOnce, providing a sense of security and reassurance.

I use it as a backup of documentation and data.

We are moving on to Veeam backup. The recovery is important.

I use it for backup purposes and backup repositories in six offices, including in Nigeria. 

We can push our backup files to the cloud, but it is not very effective because it requires a very strong internet connection; it is internet-dependent.  

The biggest benefits include data protection that comes along with data storage. Restoring data from it is superb. 

If you have an issue with your virtual machine, you can easily back up the data. StoreOnce is a very okay solution. 

We use StoreOnce with Data Protector, the backup and recovery software. We also use it with Micro Focus products. Additionally, StoreOnce has similar functionalities to Data Domain. 

They both offer NFS data store tools: Data Domain offers ETL and Catalyst Store, while StoreOnce has the equivalent in Catalyst Backup, similar to DD Boost in Data Domain.

StoreOnce helps with long-term data retention and disaster recovery strategies. It works similarly to Data Domain. It provides site-to-site replication, like StoreOnce to StoreOnce. 

Additionally, it offers snapshot backup functionality, just like Data Domain. StoreOnce has built-in ransomware protection, with immutable backup options, similar to Data Domain's automated approach. 

Finally, it integrates with Veeam, just like Data Domain. So, they're very similar products.

However, I have not used StoreOnce in a multi-site environment. We do have implementations with single-site, standalone deployments for many customers. But, I don't have any personal experience with using StoreOnce for multi-site replication, like StoreOnce to StoreOnce for disaster recovery purposes. 

However, I do have experience with Data Domain's multi-site implementation. Its DR and ER functionalities were good, including the bandwidth-compressed layer application aspects.

We use HPE StoreOnce for our backup processes. We're backing up Hyper-V and VMware servers through the Data Protector software integrated with StoreOnce. Following the initial backup, we create a backup copy for StoreOnce, and we also have a tape drive connected to a secondary backup level.

HPE StoreOnce offers storage capacity for backing up many servers, including virtual machines. Such backups require extensive storage capacity. It provides efficient data duplication and compression capabilities, which help optimize storage usage and reduce costs. One might opt for a larger, more expensive storage solution. For instance, an alternative might have been an 88-terabyte or 48-terabyte StoreOnce model without duplication and compression.

HPE StoreOnce is used for its backup target feature in different sites, including mini-sites. If I have many files and I need to replicate the backup files or need to create a recovery on some site, then it's a good idea to replicate my backup files with StoreOnce to HPE StoreOnce Catalyst.

As HPE StoreOnce does not apply to normal servers, its deduplication and backup compression patterns in traditional software products work.

HPE should have more options so customers can choose from a wide range of products with small to big capacities. The smallest one is 80 terabytes.

HPE should also improve the performance of the product. The performance is very important. Because when your system has a disaster problem, it's time to restart everything. If you have good performance, your system can restart faster. HPE StoreOnce takes a long time to restore, which is an issue.

They should improve the backup and restore performance. Dell has DD Boost, which is a very good solution. ExaGrid has a landing zone and a cache in the memory so that they can back up from the landing zone very fast. HPE doesn't have any technology they can compare.

I've worked with this solution for almost ten years.

Our primary use case is Catalyst Copy.

The most valuable part is the Catalyst Copy.