HPE Primera vs Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nutanix are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.9, while Nutanix is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.7. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 3.1% mindshare in AFS, compared to Nutanix’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

HPE Primera and Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are two leading enterprise storage solutions. HPE Primera seems to have the upper hand in support and ease of use, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage stands out with its rich feature set, making it a preferred choice despite its higher price point.

Features:Users highlight HPE Primera's robust performance, reliable data protection, and easy scalability. Nutanix Unified Storage offers comprehensive data management capabilities, advanced analytics, and automation features. NUS's features are more innovative compared to HPE Primera's focus on stability and reliability.

Room for Improvement:Feedback for HPE Primera points to more integration options, enhancements in reporting capabilities, and diverse integration capabilities. Nutanix Unified Storage users suggest improvements in the initial setup complexity, better documentation, and simplifying deployment.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:HPE Primera is noted for its straightforward deployment process and excellent customer support. Nutanix Unified Storage has a steeper learning curve during deployment but compensates with responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI:HPE Primera is seen as more cost-effective initially, with lower setup costs and satisfactory ROI over time. Nutanix Unified Storage, while more expensive to set up, is considered worth the investment due to its long-term operational efficiencies and advanced features. ROI for NUS is rated highly by users due to the operational benefits realized after the initial deployment phase.

To learn more, read our detailed HPE Primera vs. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Report (Updated: December 2025).

Buyer's Guide

HPE Primera vs. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)

December 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

1.0

Organizations reduced costs and improved performance with Pure FlashArray X NVMe, achieving quick ROI and efficient resource management.

Sentiment score

1.0

Increased productivity, cost-efficiency, scalability, reliability, and simplified management led to higher return on investment and better business operations.

Sentiment score

6.9

Nutanix Unified Storage boosts ROI by reducing costs, enhancing uptime, scalability, and efficiency, while improving data management and productivity.

If you wait more than seven years to buy another one, you get a return on your investment.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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No quotes available

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For me, the biggest return on investment when using this solution is that we do not have to have much support staff to run it.

Tom Hiles

Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability challenge with previous systems is lessened with Nutanix since we can expand by adding new hardware without needing migrations.

Ryan Salaheddine

Infrastructure Architect & Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

We are saving approximately 20% to 25% compared with the competition.

reviewer2703840

Global of Central Computing IT Operations Head at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.1

Pure FlashArray X NVMe's technical support is praised for responsiveness, despite occasional follow-up issues, earning high customer satisfaction.

Sentiment score

5.1

HPE Primera's customer service is mixed, with praise for support but concerns about delays, inconsistency, and communication.

Sentiment score

7.5

Nutanix Unified Storage customer service is efficient and knowledgeable, with high satisfaction but room for improvement in complex cases.

Customers always have their issues resolved promptly.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

Technical support is good at least through vendors, not directly with the principal.

Shakeel Qureshi

Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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We could not get a genuine explanation for why systems were failing under certain conditions.

reviewer1599129

Solution Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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They come on the call, start troubleshooting immediately, and resolve issues effectively.

Ashish Savaratkar

Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

They are very knowledgeable, and if they can't solve the problem, they find the answer within a day or so.

Shawn Greisen

Manager, System Engineering at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

I would give the customer service and technical support a ten out of ten.

Manuel Heredia

PreSales at IKUSI

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers scalable storage with low latency, easy upgrades, though capacity customization and high costs are noted.

Sentiment score

4.2

HPE Primera offers scalable storage, easily expands capacity without downtime, and effectively supports medium-sized organizations' growing data needs.

Sentiment score

7.8

Nutanix Unified Storage offers scalable, efficient, and stable storage expansion with easy integration and intuitive licensing for diverse environments.

It hasn't broken down anytime in the last six to seven years, despite hurricanes, earthquakes, and power outages.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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This means you don't have to buy everything upfront; you can buy what you need and add more as you grow, which is advantageous.

ChrisGeaghan

Sales engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

These three components utilize scalability tools, enabling storage addition to nodes and supporting independent, linear performance growth.

Amarnath Charugundla

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy

I find the scalability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to be excellent, and I would rate it a ten based on my clients' requirements.

SaurabhShukla

Technical Lead at Cognizant

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Pure Storage offers exceptional stability and reliability with outstanding support, consistently achieving high user ratings for performance and service.

Sentiment score

7.6

HPE Primera offers high stability and reliability with 100% availability, excelling in mission-critical environments despite minor HDD issues.

Sentiment score

8.0

Nutanix Unified Storage is stable and reliable, offering smooth upgrades, quick issue resolution, and effective technical support.

I would rate the stability of the product at seven out of ten.

Gary Cheung

Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees

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The system operates smoothly even with a greater IOPS capacity enabled by using SSD disks.

reviewer1599129

Solution Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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We have not experienced these issues with Nutanix, which I attribute to the all-flash technology, the quality of their platform, and the responsiveness of the hyper-converged infrastructure.

Ryan Adams

System Administrator II at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable.

Ashish Savaratkar

Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It automatically triggers tasks, causing performance issues.

reviewer2700540

Nutanix Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

Pure FlashArray X requires cost-effective improvements in UI, integration, cloud features, multitenancy, analytics, backup, AI, and scalability.

HPE Primera needs improvement in affordability, usability, integration, support, pricing, reliability, security, training, and user interface.

Nutanix Unified Storage requires upgrades in storage capabilities, ease of use, FTP compatibility, analytics, security, support, and pricing.

One way to improve the product is to add an operational assistant that doesn't depend on VMware.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

I would like to see some AI features that would allow arrays to intelligently identify threats or unusual behavior in the data pattern and give an alert.

Santhosh Sridhara

Cloud Architect at DXC Technology

Storage replication should be essential.

Shakeel Qureshi

Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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The user interface is friendly, yet it does not cover all steps that can be performed via direct port connections on storage.

reviewer1599129

Solution Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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The main concern is pricing, which could deter some customers; addressing this would enhance its appeal.

Mrudula Oruganti

Senior Solution Software Engineer at Gigamon

The system should move towards AI-driven optimization and enhance S3 object storage capabilities.

Sukhwinder-Singh

Corporate Trainer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

System downtime can disturb the entire ecosystem and impact all applications.

Amarnath Charugundla

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy

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Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers see Pure FlashArray X NVMe as a justified premium investment due to performance and comprehensive licensing.

HPE Primera offers cost-effective, flexible pricing for enterprises, balancing cost and value, with configurable and optional feature costs.

Nutanix Unified Storage offers competitive pricing, appreciated for cost-effectiveness, but may be expensive for small businesses or specific regions.

While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits.

Enes SUZER

Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.

The support can be a bit pricey, but the solution is more cost-effective than anything else out there.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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Compared to buying three or four vendor solutions, it is much cheaper.

Tom Hiles

Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The cost has doubled for the same amount of data, which was a challenge when presenting use case justifications for the increased cost.

Ryan Salaheddine

Infrastructure Architect & Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has definitely helped reduce our total cost of ownership.

Nidhi Lnu

Information Technology Managed Services Provider at SCE

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Valuable Features

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers exceptional performance, reliability, scalability, and seamless VMware integration, enhancing workload efficiency and user experience.

HPE Primera offers excellent performance, integration, scalability, and AI-driven analytics with all features included for cost-effective reliability.

Nutanix Unified Storage offers scalability, efficiency, robust security, seamless cloud integration, and simplifies IT management, enhancing storage reliability.

Its data compression feature is the best that we have ever seen.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed.

Enes SUZER

Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.

We are satisfied with the performance as it is significantly faster compared to traditional storage options.

Gary Cheung

Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees

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We have more capacity than expected, and even if we face issues with one or two disks, the system maintains the same performance.

reviewer1599129

Solution Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is appreciated for its fault tolerance and redundancy at the cluster level, which ensures reliable storage of files, folders, and other information accessible on the client side.

reviewer2700540

Nutanix Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data, such as ransomware threats, provide the ability to detect and back up block-based storage, allowing me to restore repositories or sets of block storage with one button click, which is automatic.

Andrew Essien

Network Engineer at Alabama A & M University

My experience with using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for data-intensive workloads is that we have many SQL Servers and they perform much better than they did when we used hybrid converged previously.

Tom Hiles

Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the All-Flash Storage category, the mindshare of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is 1.4%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Primera is 3.1%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

All-Flash Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)	0.8%
HPE Primera	3.1%
Pure FlashArray X NVMe	1.4%
Other	94.7%

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Featured Reviews

Jaehoon Oh

Chief Technology Officer at Lambda256

Supports efficient storage management through volume snapshots and offers reliable non-disruptive upgrades

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could be enhanced. I can see the performance statistics in the Pure Storage console, but it does not show the performance by 4K byte unit. It displays IOPS and bandwidth, but IOPS is about real use, and I want to know how many IOPS are currently running in 4K byte units. I cannot see that IOPS because most storage systems report their performance by 4K byte unit. I want to see Pure Storage performance by 4K byte unit to compare with other storage or other internal NVMe SSD.

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Roberto Rodrigues

Solution Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Used for shared storage and has good scalability

Recently, we had many issues with HPE Primera storage, mainly in the leveling process, which caused many problems for the customers. In this architecture, the full application running over this storage gets stuck when one disk fails. We noticed that one leveling process, ungrouping process, and grouping process took around 12 hours to conclude. It was not a good experience. The main issue was that we dimensioned the solution to 1,300 IOPS. The solution has 10 + 2 spare disks, and when one disc fails, the application gets stuck because the IOPS moves to 5,000 IOPS when it happens. We noticed some specific limitations with the solution's graphical interface, which was not rich. The solution's main problem was the grouping and ungrouping process. We confirmed that the problem was with HPE Primera by stopping the whole application while labeling. No IOPS was consumed from the application to the storage, even though the IOPS was 5,000. This means that 5,000 was just for the leveling of one disk. If two disks had failed, the problem would have been bigger than we experienced.

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Amarnath Charugundla

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy

Unified management and cost-effectiveness lead to positive experiences and future savings

Improvement is necessary wherein the memory or storage should not breach 90%, because if breached, it becomes unmanageable. We have to set alerts or CPU triggering for 95% for the first warning. Other activities on nodes or file systems should be properly maintained. We must monitor the dashboard for P1, P2 alerts in the Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) file share system including SMB, NFS, objects, and blocks. Attention should be maintained for any alerts such as CPU, memory, and RAM alerts, as exceeding these creates issues within teams. If triggered to 95% and forgotten, it crosses the SLA breach, causing disturbances to application, web, and platform teams. Continuous monitoring on the Nutanix dashboard is essential. Even a highly experienced person in Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) cannot provide a 10 rating out of 10 because it is a vast system. I would rate it eight from my perspective.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

21%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	30
Large Enterprise	64

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

The price of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is very expensive, though I do not know the actual price because I am using the E...

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What needs improvement with Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could ...

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Which would you choose - HPE Nimble Storage or HPE Primera?

HPE Nimble is a versatile synced WAN San solution. It is easy to use and doesn’t require much training for admins. Th...

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HPE Primera has many great features but one of the best is that it is very easy to deploy. From an overall perspectiv...

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What do you like most about HPE Primera?

For over a year, I have not seen any downtime in the product.

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What do you like most about Nutanix Unified Storage?

Nutanix has excellent product documentation available on their portals, written in simple, easy-to-understand language.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Unified Storage?

It is very cost-effective compared to the traditional environment. With new hardware, it's a long-term investment but...

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Unified Storage?

To improve Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), cost is always an issue for every company, especially when we talk about la...

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Compared 7% of the time

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Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)

January 2026

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Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X

Primera

Nutanix Files Storage, Nutanix Volumes Block Storage, Nutanix Objects Storage

Overview

Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.

Pure Storage

HPE introduces HPE Primera, a new storage platform designed to deliver superior simplicity, availability, and performance for mission-critical applications
HPE Primera advances the HPE Intelligent Data Platform, a portfolio of products and solutions designed to help customers transition from delivering storage to unlocking business value with intelligent data

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Nutanix Unified Storage offers seamless scalability and high availability with a user-friendly interface, supporting multi-protocol operations while integrating effortlessly with cloud platforms. It enhances performance and security with features like ransomware protection and advanced data management.

Nutanix Unified Storage streamlines storage management by consolidating infrastructure and optimizing virtualization. It reduces operational complexity and enhances performance across diverse workloads. Despite feedback on integration challenges and suggestions for improving pricing, API capabilities, and security, it remains a key choice for dependable storage solutions. Calls for streamlined implementation and enhanced AI capabilities reflect its potential to better support evolving organizational strategies, driving cost efficiency and data accessibility.

What are the key features of Nutanix Unified Storage?

Intuitive Interface: Simplifies management with easy navigation.
High Availability: Ensures minimal downtime and reliable performance.
Seamless Scalability: Adapts to increasing data requirements effortlessly.
Multi-Protocol Support: Facilitates comprehensive operations across different systems.
Advanced Security: Offers ransomware protection and secure data backup.
Cloud Integration: Allows smooth interaction with cloud platforms.

What benefits and ROI should users evaluate?

Operational Efficiency: Reduced complexity through streamlined management.
Cost Optimization: Achieved via data compression and consolidation.
Enhanced Data Visibility: Improved insights with advanced data lens.
Performance Improvement: Significant uplift in workload handling and database performance.
Scalable Infrastructure: Enables growth and adaptation to changing demands.

In industries, Nutanix Unified Storage is deployed to centralize storage needs, improve database efficiency, and enhance file sharing and security. Organizations use it to consolidate infrastructure, support virtualization, optimize costs, and facilitate virtual machine hosting. It's instrumental in scalable object storage, ransomware protection, integrating legacy systems, and catering to critical applications.

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Sample Customers

Fremont Bank, Judson ISD, The Nielsen Company

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JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, Volkswagen SAIC, Brighton and Hove City Council, Foresters Financial, Janus International Group, Cloud Comrade, Serco

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