We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT 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."Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"It simplifies storage."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"Their support cases are all handed through the portal. The support contacts me when they need to do upgrades. It has been great. It's all very well-handled, scheduled, and performed."
"After migration to Unity 300F, we were able to put more DBs on flash, reducing latency. The results were visible in the front-end systems, and all users noticed the improvement."
"Storage Snapshots have been really nice. They allow us to do backups without impacting our production workload that much. The scalability, the ability to add disks dynamically and adjust our workload as needed, has also been really helpful. That definitely makes my job easier. And the interface for managing Unity is very easy. The integrations between VMware Hypervisor and Dell EMC are top-notch, so it's been really easy to use and manage."
"We particularly like the user interface on cloud IQ with this product."
"Key features are ease of use, ease of management, ease of deployment, and the GUI is very user-friendly."
"Inline data reduction is pretty impressive."
"It is simple to use and easy to manage. We don't touch it after we set it up."
"I have found Dell EMC Unity XT to be stable."
"Currently, VTLs can only be created on individual service sets and cannot be used to share the resources of other nodes."
"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 solution is stable."
"The solution saves a lot of storage capacity."
"It results in more efficient storage utilization, cutting capital expenditure in half."
"I like the tool’s deduplication feature. We get a ratio of 9:1 for deduplication. The product is also Linux based. Last year, our organization faced some virus attacks. However, the backup was safe because of the product being a Linux version. HPE StoreOnce is a secure product."
"It's easy to backup data, manage. A"
"Has very good deduplication and encryption features."
"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 product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"The iSCSI and the VMware integation using vSphere could be less confusing."
"Dell Unity XT could improve the compatibility of some of the features. Some of my customers had some problems. Additionally, it would be beneficial for the solution to have advanced AI and ML features."
"It is expensive, and the pricing could be better."
"We did encounter a firmware bug which actually caused loss of data. There was some heartburn around that. But in general, it has operated as expected, except for that bug."
"We would like to see more advanced integration capability added to this solution."
"The support portal needs fixing. Accessing a service request on the support portal seems to be a bit difficult, as opposed to just calling the 800 number."
"Compression and block deduplication on non-all-flash solutions."
"If you compare it with VMAX, where we communicate with the box through Solutions Enabler and there are a lot of commands and a lot of flexibility, the command line for Unity needs to enhanced."
"Its customer service could be faster."
"HPE StoreOnce could improve the capacity support."
"They could provide more options for storage capacity."
"The product's price could be better."
"HPE should have more options so customers can choose from a wide range of products with small to big capacities."
"HPE StoreOnce should come with a detailed installation guide."
"In terms of areas for improvement, I believe HPE StoreOnce could learn from competitors like Dell's Data Domain and ExtraHop in refining its architecture."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce is an area of concern where improvements are required."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 188 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while HPE StoreOnce 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 StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, 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 Unity XT vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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