We performed a comparison between HPE StoreOnce and IBM FlashSystem 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 deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing."
"The solution is stable."
"Deduplication and compression are in a good ratio. It supports the HPE Catalyst protocol, which is much faster than NFS and other protocols. We use CommVault and Veeam, and these two solutions support the Catalyst protocol very well and are integrated at high speed. It is faster than normal access."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"Technical support is quite good."
"The hardware is strong and all the equipment has a good infrastructure. Personally, I think it's the best storage product in HPE for small to medium-sized businesses."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"No queuing and high ops, speed, and performance."
"The valuable features for us are the extra add-ons, such as the FIM provisioning, the compression, the disaster recovery capabilities, and the storage pooling functions."
"The solution is scalable and has varying degrees of scalability."
"This solution is really user friendly. It also offers good performance and is highly reliable."
"The speed, performance, and stability are the best features of IBM FlashSystem."
"The technical support for this solution is good. They used to help us when the motherboard of Power Systems broke. Their response times are really fast."
"IBM FlashSystem has been stable in our operations."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"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."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"The latency is a bit high."
"The solution should continue to refine its integration capabilities. I also see they are starting to use cloud integration as well, which is good, but they should do more to integrate with it."
"I would like to see an emphasis placed on making data deduplication and compression more powerful."
"We would like to see some improvements in the Veeam Backup & Replication integration. It's good, but it has a lot of room to improve. In particular around the inability to easily move data between StoreOnce appliances."
"The platform's price could be lower."
"We archive our backups on tape, so I feel like if we could somehow plug our tape drive directly into the StoreOnce device and set it up to where it would archive based on, if some kind of rules based engine or what have you, that would really be an improvement for us."
"improvement? HPE StoreOnce has a limitation with respect to controllers. Other tools offer more than one controller. I feel that the high availability of the view controller should be redundant. The tool’s control and UI part should be improved and made more advanced. The feature that helps with the manual movement of tapes should also be improved."
"The solution's technical support should be faster."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
"Their technical support needs improvement in terms of reachability for the clients and response times. They should be more responsive and have more online platforms for support. They should make more technical information available online. There could be some kind of documentation community."
"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."
"The support could improve by allowing you to speak to someone when you call rather than them calling you back. However, once we do have contact with one of their technicians they are excellent."
"The basic setup can be challenging when it comes to certain IP addresses and the configuration of the IP. You have to go in to different menus to makes changes and ensure it is stable."
"The solution is not easy to use and could improve."
"When you provision a datastore auto-format takes a long time"
"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."
HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our HPE StoreOnce vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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