"The initial setup was easy and simple."
"The storage has been good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage."
"The Dell warranty is the most valuable feature."
"I like the tool's CloudIQ feature."
"The stability is quite good. Once you deploy all the equipment, it's very stable."
"PowerVault comes with free software that performs functions like data deduplication and replication, which is cost-effective and delivers added value to the product."
"The solution's most valuable feature is storage provisioning, which allows me to easily provision the disk space on the servers."
"It is very stable."
"HPE has reliable support for HDD replacement."
"There have been no fail-stop failures for the last five years."
"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."
"The implementation process takes a while."
"Dell PowerVault could improve by having a higher cache and file protocol support added."
"Dell PowerVault is block-oriented storage only."
"The product is generally stable, but there have been instances, to my knowledge, where we faced issues in the controller during software upgrades. The availability is not at the desired level during these upgrade processes, as we sometimes need to shut down both controllers. This could be an area for improvement."
"We need higher performance and more reliable storage."
"Sometimes integrating into a cluster can be difficult as you have to do it manually."
"In most instances, clients are using Dell PowerVault with tape drives, but we want to transition them away from tape drives due to the risk of data loss."
"I faced some issues during the disk replacement process in HPE EVA."
"Performance could probably be improve with faster controllers, but it is already an old device. We do have performance problems now, but it is a rather old device, so we have what we have."
Dell PowerVault is ranked 1st in Fibre Channel with 23 reviews while HPE EVA is ranked 4th in Fibre Channel with 4 reviews. Dell PowerVault is rated 8.4, while HPE EVA is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerVault writes "Easy to use with good integrations and reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE EVA writes "Has the ability to automatically deal with faulty disks". Dell PowerVault is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Huawei OceanStor SNS, Lenovo Storage V Series and ExaGrid EX, whereas HPE EVA is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE StorageWorks MSA.
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