"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"HPE Primera is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is an all-flash system, which means the data access speed is amazing while the latency is almost nothing, and it can deliver IOPS up to 16,000."
"The most important thing that we had found when we purchased this product around six months back was its 100% availability and uptime."
"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 very straightforward. It's not overly complex."
"We sold Primera to a public university, and they're happy with it. They have been using it for about four months with no significant problems."
"Primera's main advantage is its support for NVM drives and normal flash drives. It has some sort of AI analysis that automatically tells us how to optimize the performance."
"HPE Primera is an all-flash storage product that's very stable and has a higher storage capacity. It can also give better ROI compared to NetApp."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"Most of the features for the reduction in data compression are useful. It is also very easy to use and administer. Its performance is also good."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, which together, enable you to have more space."
"It's a mature product. It's like a BMW that evolves consistently."
"The most valuable features in IBM FlashSystem are IOPS, performance, duplication, and compression."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"I like most of the features. Its speed, performance, and availability are valuable. We are implementing the data reduction technology the most."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and performance."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The cost of HPE Primera could be lower."
"The file server embedded in Pure, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly in that sense that installation and management are still a bit on the high end."
"On the hardware side, you should have the ability to expand capacity to larger numbers."
"Increasing the IOPS and throughput values would make the product even better. Improving the scalability of HPE Primera is also recommended."
"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."
"It is slightly more expensive, however, it all depends on your supplier."
"The installation is not easy. You need to have extensive knowledge to handle it."
"The design is a little old-fashioned and could be updated. The rack is very primitive and designed in an older style."
"There could be some extra features added."
"They can include Amazon file system S3 protocol in the upcoming releases. It is a cloud file system. IBM FlashSystem doesn't have this feature in the box for high-end or mid-range. We have got requests for this from customers because we need to use S3 for EDI application storage. At the beginning of every year, IBM releases firmware. When I find any bugs in the firmware during the year, I am unable to find any information from IBM regarding the bug. I need to open a ticket, and the IBM engineering team makes a patch only for me. This patch is not public. By creating a customized patch for a client, they don't really solve the issue for everyone. If multiple users have the same bug, IBM should upload the patch on the official website so that we can download it. IBM FlashSystem has a monitoring tool in the box, but it is not advanced. I need a more advanced tool for more advanced equations and monitoring. All top three storage vendors, that is, EMC, IBM, and Pure Storage, don't have a powerful monitoring tool. To monitor our box to show the statistics for I/Os and latency, I need to pay for extra software. The built-in monitoring storage is not mature enough to handle all requests and generate all reports that I need. They can include the functionality to stretch a cluster natively without using any additional boxes. In addition, there are some features that EMC has integrated with the box. These features are not available in IBM FlashSystem."
"The solution is not easy to use and could improve."
"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
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HPE Primera is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 19 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 33 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.6, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A rock-solid, enterprise-class product that provides 100% availability and is backed by an excellent company". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "Reliable and easy to configure with simple data migration capabilities ". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE Nimble Storage, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) and Dell Unity XT, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell Unity XT and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series. See our HPE Primera vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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