We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series 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."It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"This solution is very scalable."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"There's some new stuff coming with 7.3, which just got released, where they're spreading the sparing across the whole array, rather than having a dedicated spare disk, and have it sit there and do nothing until one of them dies, and then it kicks in - and having to rebuild all of that. Now, they'll do the sparing across all the disks and they say that is going to add not only space but performance to the array, with 7.3."
"It has good dedupe and compression. Also, the built-in data migration capabilities are pretty good, as is the federation. When we started migrating the workloads from different storage platforms, like NetApp and XtremeIO, it helped us in moving to that direction."
"I find this version to be more budget-friendly compared to products from other vendors. This aspect greatly benefits my customers. It's highly advantageous due to its affordability. The operational aspect is also noteworthy. Additionally, its availability and performance are commendable. The speaker are also equally powerful."
"Technical support is very good. I do use it from time to time and it's always excellent."
"The performance benefits weren't surprising, we expected that. What we didn't expect were the densification benefits that we got out of going all-flash. We're able to put more applications on the arrays because of how all-flash performs. The way some of the application profiles have responded to all-flash has been really pleasing."
"The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"I've found the stability to be very good."
"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."
"The most valuable features for us are the ease of use, the reliability, and the exceptional deduplication that we get across that data that we store on those devices."
"Technical support is quite good."
"I'm impressed with their support structure, call availability, understanding, flexibility in scheduling remote sessions, and accommodating customer timeframes."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature."
"The deduplication feature in this product is amazing."
"If you have a large enough storage capacity then you can take an ample amount of data."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and compression capabilities."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"The lower model, the 3000, should have duplication. It doesn't right now. It's only from 5000 that this is offered, but it depends on the performance. It could be they don't offer it on lower models because the duplication is too much of a burden to the performance."
"I would like to improve the processing ability."
"The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series."
"It's not very efficient anymore. There are better products out there."
"While there's always room for improvement in everything, I can't really think of a specific feature of the solution that requires immediate attention."
"The cost of the solution could be better."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable."
"The price could be improved."
"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."
"HPE StoreOnce needs to provide a SaaS solution by offering high-density disks."
"The product could be improved with better support for data protection."
"The latency is a bit high."
"The web interface, ease of use, and GUI all need to be improved."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"Its customer service could be faster."
"The GUI and its user-friendliness have some room for improvement."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor 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 SC Series vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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