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"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"It is a stable and scalable solution with quick and efficient storage capability."
"The interface is simplified."
"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."
"The greatest advantage is the support when we encounter incidents, as HPE's support is highly responsive."
"HPE Primera is stable."
"The most valuable feature of HP Primera is that you don't have to buy an additional product for application replication. It's a stable product. The tool is scalable. I recommend HPE Primera because it's one of HP's most stable product."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"It needs to improve its price."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"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."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"The pricing is very high."
"We've encountered issues in the past where maintaining a read-only state is essential to prevent data encryption when VPN access is impacted."
"The solution could improve by having seamless migration from other storage systems. The process should be made easier."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"I would like to see improved training offered with HPE Primera."
"There really isn't any aspect of the solution that needs improvement for the customer other than its price."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"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."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". 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". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado.
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