We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The greatest advantage is the support when we encounter incidents, as HPE's support is highly responsive."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"HPE Primera is scalable."
"Primera's main advantage is its support for NVM drives and normal flash drives. It has some sort of AI analysis that automatically tells us how to optimize the performance."
"The performance is very good."
"HPE Primera is an all-flash storage product that's very stable and has a higher storage capacity. It can also give better ROI compared to NetApp."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance of the database access."
"One of the most valuable features is the overall performance it provides. You're able to throw a pile of IOPS at it and it will handle that without much issue."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"Some of the valuable features include MetroCluster switchover, in terms of disaster recovery, it is easy to use, and flexible."
"The benefits are better up-time, better response time."
"This storage solution is both stable and scalable, and it works for our needs."
"The main advantage of this solution is performance."
"The hardware and software of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy for us to use."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"It is on the expensive side."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market."
"Primera should be more user-friendly."
"The IOPS and throughput could be better. That's the only drawback compared to other vendors."
"On the controller side, I would like to see NAS capabilities."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"There are certain features that require engineering-level access, which should be accessible to storage admins as well."
"HPE Primera's pricing model is an area of concern and can be considered for improvement."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"This solution has limited storage."
"This solution does not have any compression or deduplication."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate data between All Flash and other NetApp storage systems."
"The management interface, while very reliable, it seems a little old now and could maybe use a little modernization."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
"We need a center related to NetApp in Egypt so that we can deal with them directly."
"There could be an improvement when it comes to SLA support, it could be faster."
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HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Dell Unity XT, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our HPE Primera vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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