We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and NetApp FAS Series 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."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."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"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."
"For over a year, I have not seen any downtime in the product."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. It's not overly complex."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to provide the IOPS ratio which is required by a lot of our customers."
"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."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The solution is stable."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"It was not proactive communication."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"We have not had a good experience with support from HPE Primera. They can improve."
"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."
"They could work to make scalability easier."
"This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market."
"There are certain features that require engineering-level access, which should be accessible to storage admins as well."
"On the controller side, I would like to see NAS capabilities."
"We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data."
"The product’s price needs improvement."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. 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 FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE Primera vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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