We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and IBM FlashSystem 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."The first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"It worked flawlessly."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. It's not overly complex."
"All of the capabilities of the hardware such as replication, snapshot, and the specific features are all included from the start as opposed to being on another license."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"It serves as the primary storage in my production environment."
"It is stable and reliable."
"The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."
"Flash disk with Easy Tier option"
"The most valuable features of IBM FlashSystem are performance and security."
"The ability to create LUNs and modify them are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The valuable features are high availability, compression, and a failover mechanism. It's a very highly available storage solution."
"This solution is really user friendly. It also offers good performance and is highly reliable."
"User friendly management interface."
"The FlashSystem 900 consistently delivers performance below 1ms for read/write. This performance is essential for an effective SVC stretch-cluster configuration across two datacenters, and presenting active-active storage to the customer."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"The product's stale snapshots feature needs improvement."
"I would like to see improved training offered with HPE Primera."
"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 price of the product is an area of concern. From an improvement perspective, the solution should be made more affordable in terms of price."
"The reporting console can be improved with out of the box reports."
"On the hardware side, you should have the ability to expand capacity to larger numbers."
"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."
"HPE Primera's deduplication area is not as good as the one offered by Dell PowerStore, making it an area where improvements are required."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"The Data Reduction Pools (DRP) support could be better."
"The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"Events/log analysis tools."
"It has room for improvement in the area of stability."
"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."
"When you provision a datastore auto-format takes a long time"
"The solution is quite expensive. That's one of the downsides to using it."
IBM FlashSystem products are enterprise computer data storage systems that store data on flash memory chips. Unlike storage systems that use standard solid-state drives, IBM FlashSystem products incorporate custom hardware based on technology from the 2012 acquisition of Texas Memory Systems. This hardware provides performance, reliability, and efficiency benefits versus competitive offerings.
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 105 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. 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 IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Dell Unity XT, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series. See our HPE Primera vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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