We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and SolidFire 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 GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"Support has been helpful."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"The interface is simplified."
"Scalability-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."
"For over a year, I have not seen any downtime in the product."
"When taking into account the price, maintenance required, and performance of HPE Primera, it is an effective solution."
"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."
"HPE Primera is an all-flash storage product that's very stable and has a higher storage capacity. It can also give better ROI compared to NetApp."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"The scalability and being able to implement it quickly."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"The product's stale snapshots feature needs improvement."
"The cost of HPE Primera could be lower."
"The file server embedded in Pure, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage."
"The reporting console can be improved with out of the box reports."
"The solution could improve by having seamless migration from other storage systems. The process should be made easier."
"We face challenges with false alarms, particularly daily alerts related to replication link breaks. I'm not happy with the customer service and support."
"The pricing is very high."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly in that sense that installation and management are still a bit on the high end."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"The tool should improve its initial cost which is expensive compared to other products."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
"They could make the mNode more user-friendly. Now you need to configure and add nodes by CLI and it’s not really easy to manage. If they created a web interface to do the management of the mNode, that would be great!."
"We had some false positives, power supplies failing, and that's really been about it. We had a couple of glitches during some upgrade processes but nothing that was really concerning to us."
"The user interface needs to be improved. Much of the client feedback involves comments such as "Oh, it's hard to navigate through.""
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our HPE Primera vs. SolidFire report.
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