HPE Primera Reviews

We use this product as our SAN solution. It hosts non-critical applications and related data.

This product has improved the speed of our on-premises storage. The IO is now very fast.

The performance is very good.

We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data.

We have been using HPE Primera for several months.

The warranty guarantees 100% stability.

We have space for perhaps 15 administrators, who manage between 600 and 800 end-users.

The HPE GreenLake support is great.

We only use HPE products.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The deployment process was easy and it took between three and four months to complete.

We implemented this product in-house.

Licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis and the cost of GreenLake service is included. I don't mind these fees because the service is good.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

The cost of HPE Primera could be lower. 

I have been using HPE Primera for some three months now. 

HPE Primera is stable. 

HPE Primera is scalable.

I did not previously use a different solution. 

The initial setup was simple. It was easy to manage. 

At the moment, I can't say much about the price except that it is reasonable. 

I have been using this solution for a few weeks — we're in the testing phase. 

I believe HPE Primera and Pure Storage are similar in price. 

We're also testing Pure Storage. They're almost the same, but Pure Storage is fancier, easier to use, and offers more features than HPE Primera. The embedded file server, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give HPE Primera a rating of seven. 

We sold Primera to a public university, and they're happy with it. They have been using it for about four months with no significant problems. 

I've used Primera in the past 12 months.

Primera is stable.

Primera is scalable. 

We haven't had any problems with HPE support.

Price is always important in Turkey, so HPE could lower the price to keep it competitive.

I rate Primera eight out of 10. It's not as competitive as other solutions in this market. 

HPE Primera is being used for server virtualization and critical applications. We have customers in Egypt and they use it for a billing system and an infrastructure database system.

HPE Primera has good integration. All the users are using HP servers and some systems, such as Synergy, which integrate well into the solution.

The solution could prove the reporting.

I have been using HPE Primera for approximately nine years.

HPE Primera has high availability and is stable.

The solution is scalable.

The price of HPE Primera could improve, it is expensive.

HPE Primera is useful for banking systems.

I rate HPE Primera a nine out of ten.

I work with an HPE authorized partner in Malta and we offer storage solutions for customers. HPE Primera is one such product that I have experience with.

We have noticed that these days, most of the customers are implementing a solution that is a hybrid between Nimble and Primera All-Flash. There are both spinning disks and flash, where flash is used as the cache, which makes the price more competitive.

The customers are primarily using it for disaster recovery. They have their cluster and they are replicating one another to provide business continuity and disaster recovery applications.

In my opinion, HPE is making good progress and moving ahead with InfoSight, which is predictive analytics and artificial intelligence. I think that this is one of the selling points for their storage products and it comes at no extra cost.

InfoSight is built by gathering intelligence from all of the storage solutions, worldwide.  If the AI is being used here in Malta, locally, as it would with InfoSight, then it would use baseline data from the whole world to make predictions. It is really robust.

Cases are opened automatically and they give you trend analysis as well.

Anything that helps administratively for a data center is important, and Primera gives you both efficiency and effectiveness.

The interface needs to be more user-friendly in that sense that installation and management are still a bit on the high end. It needs to be simpler.

I have been working with Primera for about two years.

Primera is really robust, effective, and cost-saving as well. It has 100% availability, which is quite a lot.

This is a scalable product.

The price of Primera All-Flash is going down, although this is more relevant for high-end customers. For small to medium-sized organizations, we are offering a hybrid solution.

We work a lot with HPE technical support and they are very good. We are very satisfied.

The initial setup is straightforward and the deployment should not take more than an hour.

Our in-house team is responsible for deployment and maintenance.

Malta is small, with a population of 450,000. Our company has 12 system engineers for enterprise clients.

Primera is still new, and it's in its inception phase. There are still not many installations around. My advice to anybody who is implementing this product is that they have to keep updated as technology advances. It's not a question of "it works, leave it there and don't take care of updates". You have to keep up to date with what is happening with the technology. Sometimes, we encounter customers that stagnate in their technology because they concluded that if it works then you don't have to do anything. That is not a good approach because it's a continuous transformation.

In summary, this is a good solution and my only complaint is about user-friendliness. I am sure that in the future, and with InfoSight, things are going to get better. This is similar to what has happened to this point, where limitations that were present in previous versions have been enhanced. Personally, I have not encountered any limitations.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.