We performed a comparison between Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array and VIOLIN QV2020 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 most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"The performance is very good."
"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 initial setup was really straight forward."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"It was not proactive communication."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
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Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is ranked 30th in All-Flash Storage while VIOLIN QV2020 is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is rated 9.4, while VIOLIN QV2020 is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array writes "Good support, improves performance, scales well, and boosts team efficiency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VIOLIN QV2020 writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is most compared with Pure FlashArray X NVMe, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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