We performed a comparison between HPE StoreOnce and VAST Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"It worked flawlessly."
"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."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"The most valuable features for us are the ease of use, the reliability, and the exceptional deduplication that we get across that data that we store on those devices."
"The speed and deduplication ratio are two of the most valuable features of the solution."
"The solution is stable."
"Has very good deduplication and encryption features."
"The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing."
"Catalyst backup is used to back up Oracle databases, and provides very good throughput during backups."
"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."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"It needs to improve its price."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"The solution is not cheap."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The product could be improved with better support for data protection."
"HPE StoreOnce could improve the capacity support."
"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."
"Agnostic backups."
"They could provide more options for storage capacity."
"I would like to see an emphasis placed on making data deduplication and compression more powerful."
"The solution could always be less expensive."
"The latency is a bit high."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 18th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. 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 VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Qumulo, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and DDN SFA7990X.
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