We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and HPE StoreOnce based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The technical support is very good."
"It's actually very stable"
"A particularly valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"The supportability of SCME drives for faster data access from the PowerStore and is the most valuable feature."
"PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes."
"The deduplication functionality provided by the solution is fairly good. The speed offered by the product is enough for our organization."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"I have found the most valuable part of Dell PowerStore is the price."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its catalyst mode, along with better performance, backup, and recovery."
"The solution is stable."
"The product’s data retention is very good."
"If you have a large enough storage capacity then you can take an ample amount of data."
"I'm impressed with their support structure, call availability, understanding, flexibility in scheduling remote sessions, and accommodating customer timeframes."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"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."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"PowerStore's management console could be improved."
"Could use some additional automation."
"The price is on the higher side."
"Reporting is an area that could be improved. It's very simplistic sometimes, and some of the very technical guys on my team want to see more of the details and be able to massage the report a little bit better."
"Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"The only area I can highlight for improvement is that the 4:1 data reduction target has not been reached. This may be due to an issue with Dell EMC's initial analysis of data compression. As a result, we have had to add new physical disks to reach our goal of total available disk space."
"We would consider this solution if the pricing is competitive with other options, as it offers a very good solution. However, the current price is slightly higher than the competition."
"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 repository should have an extension to connect to the cloud and deposit the backups."
"They could provide more options for storage capacity."
"Hardware maintenance involves some downtime for backup destination storage which can be a problem for some."
"It is difficult to solve issues with this solution remotely. I prefer to use the knowledge base platforms. The response time could improve."
"HPE StoreOnce Backup to Disk (BTD) is not a good backup solution for NAS devices. It does not have a dual controller, so if one controller fails, the entire system will go down."
"The solution's technical support should be faster."
"Its customer service could be faster."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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