We performed a comparison between HPE Primera 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 feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"The scalability is good."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The most valuable feature of HPE Primera is its performance and simple replication."
"It serves as the primary storage in my production environment."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the artificial intelligence for the storage inside of the software and firmware because customers do not like functionalities which require manual interruption."
"The initial setup is simple."
"There has been a lot of changes in HPE Primera OS, and most of the time any package related to it is simple to upgrade. It does not require any support for the operation. The customer can easily deploy any code directly from the GUI which is very good. Additionally, we have individual storage we can allocate and easily manage."
"The performance is very good."
"The most important thing that we had found when we purchased this product around six months back was its 100% availability and uptime."
"Our customers have given very positive feedback about InfoSign, which is the management software for this solution."
"If you have a large enough storage capacity then you can take an ample amount of data."
"HPE StoreOnce is an easy-to-use tool."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and compression capabilities."
"The speed and deduplication ratio are two of the most valuable features of the solution."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"The solution saves a lot of storage capacity."
"The solution is stable."
"Currently, VTLs can only be created on individual service sets and cannot be used to share the resources of other nodes."
"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."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"We face challenges with false alarms, particularly daily alerts related to replication link breaks. I'm not happy with the customer service and support."
"The file server embedded in Pure, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage."
"We've encountered issues in the past where maintaining a read-only state is essential to prevent data encryption when VPN access is impacted."
"They could work to make scalability easier."
"The cost of HPE Primera could be lower."
"We have not had a good experience with support from HPE Primera. They can improve."
"Price is always important in Turkey, so HPE could lower the price to keep it competitive. It's not as competitive as other solutions in this market."
"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."
"While StoreOnce has many features, it needs to focus on integrating with third-party backup software solutions."
"They could provide more options for storage capacity."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I don't see any new features that we could want or anything that could be done along those lines. Just that we need a bigger machine, so more speed."
"HPE StoreOnce needs to provide a SaaS solution by offering high-density disks."
"HPE StoreOnce could improve the capacity support."
"One item I wanted to see is SSD drives as a cache, and that was, for a time, still lacking in StoreOnce, however, they have done it now. It's not available yet, however, it will be shortly."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE 3PAR StoreServ. See our HPE Primera vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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