We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DD and HPE StoreOnce based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: PowerProtect DD is the winner in this comparison. It is powerful and secure with a proven ROI. StoreOnce does come out on top in the ease of deployment category, however.
"It's very competitive in terms of the price and technology. Also, the development team continuously makes updates. The data reduction feature is very useful."
"The feature that I have found most useful is its data duplication."
"The most valuable features of Dell EMC PowerProtect DD are the duplication security and uptime."
"The solution is very scalable."
"It works within backup windows and has got good deduplication."
"It is a stable solution."
"I find the data to be most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the inline data deduplication."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature."
"HPE StoreOnce has high performance."
"The most valuable feature of HPE StoreOnce is the virtual drive."
"The solution is stable."
"Deduplication and compression are in a good ratio. It supports the HPE Catalyst protocol, which is much faster than NFS and other protocols. We use CommVault and Veeam, and these two solutions support the Catalyst protocol very well and are integrated at high speed. It is faster than normal access."
"The initial setup is one of the most user-friendly B2B user solutions. It's good, it's easy. Deployment usually takes less than one day. You only need one person for deployment and maintenance."
"The scalability is very good."
"The hardware is strong and all the equipment has a good infrastructure. Personally, I think it's the best storage product in HPE for small to medium-sized businesses."
"The price of the product is high."
"They still have hardware different from the software."
"It can probably have integration with other OEMs. It should also have more features for ransomware protection."
"The price could be a little cheaper than it is now."
"The software from Dell that can be used to operate Data Domain needs to have enhancements made to the user interface. It is too complex."
"The size and scale of the product are limited and could be improved."
"Data Domain lacks compatibility with fiber channels and tapes. We can't use it with a tape library. That's an issue in Latin America sometimes because a lot of clients still use tapes for budget reasons. Maybe they have a lot of archives. In North America and Europe, they do a lot of archiving, but they use the cloud more than we do. Sometimes we have to put together a Frankenstein where we connect another server to the tape library and send all the data there."
"They need to make migration easier."
"One item I wanted to see is SSD drives as a cache, and that was, for a time, still lacking in StoreOnce, however, they have done it now. It's not available yet, however, it will be shortly."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce should be more user-friendly. Additionally, the configuration and troubleshooting could be better."
"HPE StoreOnce should come with a detailed installation guide."
"Cloud integration needs to be simplified."
"The solution could always be less expensive."
"HPE StoreOnce could improve the capacity support."
"When it comes to upgrading, it always goes block-wise. One block is 48 TB raw capacity. It would be good if they can include a smaller capacity for SMB customers. Currently, it is not possible to increase in a smaller capacity. You have to buy the exact same unit. It would be great if they can provide a smaller next block. There are around 20 hard disks, and it would be really helpful if we can add 10 hard disks initially and 10 hard disks later."
"The solution should continue to refine its integration capabilities. I also see they are starting to use cloud integration as well, which is good, but they should do more to integrate with it."
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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 24 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 4th in Deduplication Software with 8 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.8, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Stable and easy to scale suite of deduplication, backup, data protection, and storage solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Easy to set up with great deduplication and easy expansion capabilities". Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, ExaGrid EX Series, Dell Avamar and Commvault Complete Data Protection, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with DD Boost, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Data Protection, ExaGrid EX Series and Dell PowerVault. See our Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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Hello,
DataDomain is a very good product, compressing and deduplicating the data that is backed up. However it is desperately slow when it comes to restoring the data, I have it in use with Veeam Backup and it has caused us many problems due to the slow recovery of virtual machines or the writing to the tapes.
Because of the good deduplication it has, DataDomain is a good hardware but only to be used as historical backups.
HPE StoreOnce the short time you used it, it was pretty good in the times of backups and restore. It gives you the option of being able to divide your total storage capacity either by LAN or SAN with deduplication or by a CIF network.
If you are looking for good speed times in your backups and restore, I would recommend using silly repositories (without deduplication).
Regards!
I know most about the StoreOnce.
I like values for that it is really fast also when rehydrating/undeduping the data and it has extremely good dedupe ratio.
The catalyst replication of data known to the supported backup ISVs using intelligent WAN accelaeration is also very nice.
HPE Recovery Manager Central for flat disaster backup/recovery running without Backup ISV is another feature that I like to use. This can be up to 23 times faster backup and 15 times faster restore.
I'm working with both.
Bottom line – both show equivalent deduplication ratio in same backup jobs.
The difference in software and environment.
Because my company is using 3PAR storage, I think the right solution to use for integration is VMWare+3par+Storeonce (RMC).
Also, ZIM using Oracle Exadata, in this case, I prefer Data Domain.
DELL EMC provides much better support and service.
HPE StoreOnce cheaper.
I have had great success with Data Domain, having used them at two Fortune 100 companies. They are extremely reliable, especially when it comes to end-to-end data integrity checking. It provides tremendous flexibility, and when used for backups, It integrates with backup products like Networker, Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, Avamar, vSphere Data Protection Advanced and HP Data Protection, CommVault Simpana and Pivotal Greenplum. There are also boost products for Enterprise applications which provides a very powerful integration, with very high performance for Oracle RMan, SQl-SVR, SAP, SAP HANA< IBM DB2, HortonWorks and Cloudera.
With a feature called ProtectPoint, I was able to backup an 15TB Oracle DB, using RMAN, in about 1 hour to a VMAX array!! And also the restore was completed in roughly the same time.
There is also a software defined Data Domain that runs under VMware. They also have software to offload data to a Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud.
Two other use cases that I used it for were: a tier-3 NFS file share. Data Domain provides a standard NFS interface that can be used to build file shares that are hardware deduped for low cost.
Finally, I also used it as a 17a4 Compliance Worm device. It is fully compliance with the SEC 17a4 spec, as well as HIPPA and other WORM archival requirements.
BOTTOM LINE - my experience has been: Very fast, very reliable, extremely flexible with multiple use cases. Not just for backups.
We have had very good success with the HPE StoreOnce product line. It usually comes in priced lower than the Data Domain solution. Getting up to 20 and 30 to 1 dedupe.
It depends on the backup software, data domain and networker achieves very high levels of deduplication which reduces the backup window and makes backup more effective.
EMC Data Domain.
This is a proven technology which has addressed most issues and is extremely stable
Not get much experience for the comparison. Since those dedupe software have not certified Huawei OceanStor Storage devices.
I would like to value more if someone can introduce a channel to get our Storage worked together with EMC DD and HPE StoreOnce.