We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and HPE Primera 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 fast and reliable. It works."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"Its quick integration with VMware. The ability to stand up a data store in one place, where you don't have to go and rescan for the data store through the vCenter Client, as well as SMB shares. This ended up being a big selling point for us."
"The most valuable features are its performance and simplicity."
"The Unity XT box is very strong. It doesn't break. The MTBF time is very large so you don't have to worry about faults or outages in your operations."
"It has improved the utilization of our own internal resources and performance across our managed service platform, meeting our customers SLAs."
"The multiprotocol support. It's supporting NFS, fiber channel, CIFS, and these kinds of things. The multiprotocol is very attractive."
"I like Unity XT's software-defined storage. It's a new feature that isn't widely used yet, but customers are impressed with it."
"The most valuable features include snapshots, Thin Clones, and deduplication and compression."
"Veeam Backup integration: Veeam is the defacto standard for backing up of virtual environments."
"Our customers have given very positive feedback about InfoSign, which is the management software for this solution."
"The product is stable."
"The performance of the solution is good."
"The high availability was most valuable because they come with what's called 100% data availability. With special terms, they license and guarantee 100% data availability. That was probably one of the key features or components that HPE was offering with that model."
"The interface is simplified."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of deployment."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"It is a stable and scalable solution with quick and efficient storage capability."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"For the integration of the VPLEX function for Cross IDC structure, they should integrate the function into the SP controller."
"Maybe deduplication would be something that would be better to have. Also, it's a fairly new management interface, so work is still being done on that. But compared to other vendors and previous EMC storage, the Unity is really good."
"The VNX reporting is much more granular, versus the Unity reporting."
"Replication with VMware - it's called the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster - is lacking in the Unity and is present in Compellent."
"A customer had to buy VMX because Unity didn't have WORM."
"Because we can do synchronous replication between the two sites, this made the setup challenging for this piece. They did not know how to set this up initially. We ended up having to do bidirectional synchronous replication."
"We have had some downtime. Nothing is perfect. Unity’s have had some code-release problems, versions that, from a compatibility perspective, had some glitches which caused an outage. But, given the amount of Unity’s we run, that has been fairly minor and it hasn't happened at scale or across all of our Unity’s."
"This product lacks deduplication and compression at the current version 4.1.0. LACP is not available for iSCSI either."
"We have not had a good experience with support from HPE Primera. They can improve."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"The cost of HPE Primera could be lower."
"On the hardware side, you should have the ability to expand capacity to larger numbers."
"Only HPE can manage the product."
"They could work to make scalability easier."
"We used to receive hardware errors a lot of times. The ambient temperatures rise rate was approximately 35 to 55 degrees, but when it was approximately 27 or 28, we used to get errors a lot."
"The reporting console can be improved with out of the box reports."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Dell Unity XT vs. HPE Primera report.
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