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."The scalability is good."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"Support has been helpful."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerStore is the all-NVMe flash storage. This is the most powerful feature of this series. It supports compression and duplication leads."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Reliable, with comprehensive features and a well-established support base."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use this frame. I am a SAN administrator, but I was able to train my colleague, who had only been a VMware administrator, on the PowerStore in about half a day. Now he's autonomous in assigning volumes and creating data stores..."
"This solution is very useful to us as we use it internally for all of the services that we need. We use it as a lab and we showcase new technology to the customers and how it can help them going forward."
"Technical support is quite good."
"HPE StoreOnce works well, it is stable."
"The most valuable feature of HPE StoreOnce is the virtual drive."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"It is very easy to implement."
"HPE StoreOnce is an easy-to-use tool."
"The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing."
"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 file functionality could be better."
"It was not proactive communication."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"Automation could be simplified."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"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."
"It was very new when we first deployed it a year ago. Even the upgrade processes and knowing what to expect, as well as documentation, could be more robust."
"It needs more mature code."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"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."
"The solution only does thin provisioning."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The setup phase is not so simple that an end user can plug and play to make it operational."
"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."
"Its customer service could be faster."
"The product's price could be better."
"improvement? HPE StoreOnce has a limitation with respect to controllers. Other tools offer more than one controller. I feel that the high availability of the view controller should be redundant. The tool’s control and UI part should be improved and made more advanced. The feature that helps with the manual movement of tapes should also be improved."
"HPE should have more options so customers can choose from a wide range of products with small to big capacities."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce should be more user-friendly. Additionally, the configuration and troubleshooting could be better."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 34 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 15 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "Saves us power and floor space, and we can quickly assign new data stores for our developers' VMs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Easy to set up with great deduplication and easy expansion capabilities". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, Veeam Backup & Replication, ExaGrid EX Series and DD Boost. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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