We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and Pure Storage FlashArray 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 solution is very straightforward to set up."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"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."
"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 high availability was most valuable because they come with what's called 100% data availability. With special terms, they license and guarantee 100% data availability. That was probably one of the key features or components that HPE was offering with that model."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"The interface is simplified."
"HPE Primera is scalable."
"HPE Primera is stable."
"It is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"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."
"There are certain features that require engineering-level access, which should be accessible to storage admins as well."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"Only HPE can manage the product."
"HPE Primera's pricing model is an area of concern and can be considered for improvement."
"The solution could prove the reporting."
"Primera should be more user-friendly."
"The price could be better."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"It was not proactive communication."
"The price should be lower."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
HPE Primera is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 19 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 39 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.2, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A rock-solid, enterprise-class product that provides 100% availability and is backed by an excellent company". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "User-friendly, fast performance, good data compression and deduplication capabilities". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem and NetApp AFF, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VAST Data. See our HPE Primera vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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