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We performed a comparison between HPE StoreOnce and NetApp NVMe AFF A800 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.
To learn more, read our detailed HPE StoreOnce vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"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.""FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy.""Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis.""NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support.""Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry.""It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use.""It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought.""All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."

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"The solution's most valuable feature is its catalyst mode, along with better performance, backup, and recovery.""The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing.""Currently, VTLs can only be created on individual service sets and cannot be used to share the resources of other nodes.""We also really benefit from the GUI capabilities.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that the tool provides good value for somebody who needs an affordable and reliable storage solution.""Catalyst backup is used to back up Oracle databases, and provides very good throughput during backups.""If you have a large enough storage capacity then you can take an ample amount of data.""I like the tool’s deduplication feature. We get a ratio of 9:1 for deduplication. The product is also Linux based. Last year, our organization faced some virus attacks. However, the backup was safe because of the product being a Linux version. HPE StoreOnce is a secure product."

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"Over the eight years, we've been using NetApp with ONTAP, we've never lost a bit of data, and we've only experienced a few minutes of downtime in that entire time.""The most valuable features are stability and performance.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O.""NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is easier to use than some other solutions and the UI is very good to use for day-to-day activities. Overall, the solution has good technology.""During the use cases of the solution, its reliability and suitability are the best.""Low latency is the most valuable feature.""The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally.""We find the product to be very flexible."

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Cons
"The integration capabilities could be improved.""Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers.""It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated.""Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see.""There are a lot of things to improve.""The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be.""We haven't seen ROI yet.""Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."

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"The solution's pricing could be improved.""The appliance doesn't have the global deduplication, it has StoreOnce deduplication. It does not deduplicate across the appliance, it will deduplicate in one particular store. With the global deduplication, I could store more data.""I don't see any new features that we could want or anything that could be done along those lines. Just that we need a bigger machine, so more speed.""The product's price could be better.""HPE should have more options so customers can choose from a wide range of products with small to big capacities.""I would like to see better integration with Veeam software.""The setup phase is not so simple that an end user can plug and play to make it operational.""The solution's technical support should be faster."

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"Stability is an area with a certain shortcoming where the solution needs to improve""The product’s UI could be better.""Sometimes, it takes a while to get somebody competent on the other end of the line. They do have engineers in multiple time zones around the world. However, their level-one support is not always the best.""The initial setup is complex.""Increasing the RAM, and including physical cords would be beneficial.""The cost of the solution is quite high. It would be ideal if they could adjust it so that it's a but less.""The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better.""The initial setup should be easier, and more like a plug-and-play approach."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We feel that the pricing is fair and the licensing process was easy for both."
  • "There is always room for negotiation."
  • "The price was slightly higher than others, but competitive, if you consider all the other features that you get from it."
  • "It is a more expensive solution, but it is worth it. You are getting what you paid for."
  • "For pricing, you have to take into account their performance on deduplication and compression in a $/GB comparison."
  • "We have seen a reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO)."
  • "It is a cheaper solution."
  • "Pure Storage is all-flash, so this sometimes tends to make it a bit more expensive in the beginning."
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  • "The price puts me off. It's definitely on the high side."
  • "To be honest, we were quite happy with the price, but we always want things cheaper than they are. I think for what we got, we felt that the price was quite reasonable comparing it to other products that provide that same level of functionality."
  • "There are costs for additional storage and space."
  • "Price-wise, it comes with a high price tag when compared to other products."
  • "The cost of HPE StoreOnce is very expensive."
  • "We have got a perpetual license, and we have access to all the features. If you are using cloud banks, you can store the internal data in HPE Cloud if needed. You can offload the data to the HPE Cloud. It is a licensed product. We have got around 10 TB of cloud bank storage with a one-time payment. We specifically took 10 TB for very critical offsite backups. We can also increase it in blocks if needed."
  • "The licensing schemes could improve in HPE StoreOnce and the price is high. They should reduce the price."
  • "I think the product is competitive in terms of pricing. Other products like the one from Dell are costlier compared to the tool."
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  • "Considering the requirements and the situation, I don't feel that this is an expensive product."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "There are licenses for the use of this solution, such as commercial licenses."
  • "I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten."
  • "Though NetApp NVMe AFF A800 may seem like a highly-priced product, it is not extremely expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Both are great platforms, but if you are considering all flash solutions, I would recommend you to consider Pure… more »
    Top Answer:We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression.
    Top Answer:We have customers who use a three-year or five-year license. We also have customers who use Evergreen.
    Top Answer:I think StoreOnce's deduplication technology is crucial for cost efficiency and faster recovery, especially for backup… more »
    Top Answer:I would rate it around 2 or 3 because, compared to others, it tends to be higher priced.
    Top Answer:In terms of areas for improvement, I believe HPE StoreOnce could learn from competitors like Dell's Data Domain and… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O.
    Top Answer:Though NetApp NVMe AFF A800 may seem like a highly-priced product, it is not extremely expensive.
    Top Answer:The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better. I don't expect to see… more »
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    Overview

    Pure Storage FlashArray is the world’s first enterprise-class storage array that runs exclusively on the nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) protocol for memory access and storage. It represents a totally state-of-the-art type of storage technology. It offers users shared accelerated storage that delivers cutting-edge features in the realms of performance, simplicity, and consolidation. Pure Storage is fresh and modern today and will be for the next decade. Without forklift upgrades or planned downtime, Pure Storage takes the work out of storage ownership and delivers unprecedented customer satisfaction.

    Pure Storage FlashArray is built with simplicity and reliability in mind. The solution can be implemented and optimized in hours, as opposed to other similar solutions that can take days. It has no moving parts, which removes areas where it could potentially be vulnerable to suffering errors. It is highly stable and gives users the ability to manage system shutdowns in a way that  prevents data loss.

    Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray

    Some of the benefits of using Pure Storage FlashArray include:

    • A much higher level of speed than similar pieces of technology. Pure Storage FlashArray maximizes the speed at which data can be transferred while at the same time minimizing system latencies that might slow the transfer down. Additionally, it offers users quick memory read and data access speeds.

    • A higher bang for your buck in terms of the storage capabilities you get for the money you pay. They are smaller in size than more standard storage technologies, but they offer flash memory, which enables users to store larger amounts of data than the current standard.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Pure Storage FlashArray is a highly effective piece of storage technology which stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its overall robustness and the value that it offers by way of its reliability and ease of use. It provides users with many valuable features that allow them to maximize what they can do with this solution. Pure Storage FlashArray’s reliability and ease of use make it a highly valuable solution. 

    PeerSpot user Prabakaran K., a technical consultant at Injazat Data Systems, notes the robustness of this solution when he writes, "FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."

    PeerSpot user Jason D., a cloud solutions architect at a tech services company, notes three features that make this solution valuable when he writes, "We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."

    HP StoreOnce Backup is a data backup solution that provides a consistent, high-performance, scale-out architecture for your entire enterprise. Reduce the amount of backup data capacity by 95 percent, and choose between powerful dedicated appliances for data centers, or flexible virtual appliances for smaller and remote offices.

    Your data is a gold mine. Get the most out of it - faster - with AFF A800. Designed for NVMe media, further accelerated with NVMe/FC connectivity to the host, AFF A800 all-flash systems deliver an incredible sub-200 microsecond latency. Providing more than 11.4M IOPS and 300GB/s throughput in a single cluster, AFF A800 redefines the limit of what’s possible with artificial intelligence and deep learning.

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    Nielsen, Lamar Advertising, LinkedIn, Betfair, UT-Dallas
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    Buyer's Guide
    HPE StoreOnce vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about HPE StoreOnce vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    769,789 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked 17th in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews. HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4, while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp NVMe AFF A800 writes "Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI ". HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp ASA and NetApp AFF. See our HPE StoreOnce vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 report.

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