We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and Pure Storage FlashArray 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."The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"We're able to get higher-density workloads on the same infrastructure, and we have a smaller physical footprint. The performance is excellent – during our test the bottlenecks are never on the X array, it just keeps picking up the pace to match what you need. The real-time visibility is a differentiator in my opinion."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The most valuable feature of HPE Primera is its performance and simple replication."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The performance is very good."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The greatest advantage is the support when we encounter incidents, as HPE's support is highly responsive."
"It is a stable and scalable solution with quick and efficient storage capability."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Our customers have given very positive feedback about InfoSign, which is the management software for this solution."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"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."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"The software layer has to improve."
"It is on the expensive side."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"I would like to see improved training offered with HPE Primera."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"On the hardware side, you should have the ability to expand capacity to larger numbers."
"The IOPS and throughput could be better. That's the only drawback compared to other vendors."
"There are certain shortcomings in the technical support offered by HPE where improvements are required."
"They could work to make scalability easier."
"We have not had a good experience with support from HPE Primera. They can improve."
"The pricing is very high."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"The file functionality could be better."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"The price could be better."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our HPE Primera vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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