We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to provide the IOPS ratio which is required by a lot of our customers."
"The most important thing that we had found when we purchased this product around six months back was its 100% availability and uptime."
"The most valuable feature of HPE Primera is its performance and simple replication."
"HPE Primera provides me with system reliability and 100% data reliability. The storage is good and is consistently reliable and scalable, allowing me to use it whenever needed. The overall performance is great. The product is stable. The customer service and support is excellent. It's a commendable solution, especially suitable for online transactions. It is reliable in meeting data requirements."
"The greatest advantage is the support when we encounter incidents, as HPE's support is highly responsive."
"It is stable and reliable."
"The initial setup is simple."
"In my opinion, HPE is making good progress and moving ahead with InfoSight, which is predictive analytics and artificial intelligence."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"One of the most valuable features is the overall performance it provides. You're able to throw a pile of IOPS at it and it will handle that without much issue."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Some of the valuable features include MetroCluster switchover, in terms of disaster recovery, it is easy to use, and flexible."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another."
"I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance."
"The management software is very good."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"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 the solution can improve."
"It was not proactive communication."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"HPE Primera's pricing model is an area of concern and can be considered for improvement."
"On the controller side, I would like to see NAS capabilities."
"Primera should be more user-friendly."
"There are certain features that require engineering-level access, which should be accessible to storage admins as well."
"The product’s price needs improvement."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data."
"We've encountered issues in the past where maintaining a read-only state is essential to prevent data encryption when VPN access is impacted."
"I would like to shrink it more, if we can. The smaller, the better."
"The price of the All Flash solution is very high."
"I would like to see higher-capacity drives, as they come out; I have heard that 15 TB are out on a different NetApp series. Getting those on the EFs would be nice."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"Their problems are on the software and the controlling of the storage where they lack segmentation and federation."
"This solution has limited storage."
"We need a center related to NetApp in Egypt so that we can deal with them directly."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
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HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE Primera vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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