We performed a comparison between HPE StoreOnce 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."We have tons of capacity on it."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The initial setup is one of the most user-friendly B2B user solutions. It's good, it's easy. Deployment usually takes less than one day. You only need one person for deployment and maintenance."
"The scalability is very good."
"We also really benefit from the GUI capabilities."
"The deduplication feature in this product is amazing."
"Has very good deduplication and encryption features."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"HPE StoreOnce is an easy-to-use tool."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"If we get complaints about any kind of performance metric issues, whether it's storage related or something on the virtual side, we use it to pinpoint what the actual issue is."
"We can just buy them, scale them as we need on demand, and we don't have to spend so many front end cycles on designing the architecture."
"SolidFire is one of the products that does have great APIs right out-of-the-box. It works great. The tools and the other stuff seem to work a little better right out-of-the-box than the ONTAP stuff does, C-Mode."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"The square footage for doing development is at a premium when dealing with government networks. To be able to put a lot of IOPS in a lot of high-speed performing drives in a very small location which requires very little HVAC with very little power, it is very valuable to us."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"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."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"The setup phase is not so simple that an end user can plug and play to make it operational."
"The product's price could be better."
"The web interface, ease of use, and GUI all need to be improved."
"The product could be improved with better support for data protection."
"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."
"HPE StoreOnce should come with a detailed installation guide."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"One item I wanted to see is SSD drives as a cache, and that was, for a time, still lacking in StoreOnce, however, they have done it now. It's not available yet, however, it will be shortly."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
"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 scalability of HCI or SolidFire as such isn't a concern, but when you compare it to PowerMax or NetApp AFF series devices, scalability is a concern because it's only the drives that are connected to the nodes. We don't have any shelf connectivity."
"The user interface needs to be improved. Much of the client feedback involves comments such as "Oh, it's hard to navigate through.""
"It's a very good Windows-type solution. But we do a lot of legacy systems and the like. So it's getting that incorporated into it that would help us."
"The upgrade process could be better."
"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 StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4, while SolidFire 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our HPE StoreOnce vs. SolidFire report.
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