"The Dell warranty is the most valuable feature."
"Dell PowerVault is cheap."
"I find this solution to be cost-effective in providing data storage for clients."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is easy to manage and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its ability to provide small to medium-range storage. It doesn't have any specific standout features, but it's great for applications, such as surveillance where a large number of videos need to be recorded and performance isn't a priority."
"The solution is reliable and stable."
"The initial setup was easy and simple."
"The most valuable features are stability and response time."
"There have been no fail-stop failures for the last five years."
"It is very stable."
"The solution's most valuable feature is storage provisioning, which allows me to easily provision the disk space on the servers."
"HPE has reliable support for HDD replacement."
"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."
"The tool needs to improve its UI."
"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."
"Dell PowerVault could improve by having a higher cache and file protocol support added."
"There have been situations when our customers requested professional support and the price of that feature is quite high."
"The high prices of the solution are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"PowerVault doesn't integrate with Active Directory. Other storage solutions offer SAN and NAS unified storage in a single appliance, but PowerVault is only SAN."
"In the next release, I would like the deduplication and compression included, as well as the flash technology. It doesn't currently use it."
"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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