We compared Dell Powerstore and HPE Primera based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Dell EMC Powerstore seems to be the slightly superior solution because it is easier to use.
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"The most valuable features of Dell PowerStore are the support for NVMe and SCM, which provides end-to-end performance and high IOPS, minimizing latency. It is a full-fledged storage solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The deduplication functionality provided by the solution is fairly good. The speed offered by the product is enough for our organization."
"This solution is very useful to us as we use it internally for all of the services that we need. We use it as a lab and we showcase new technology to the customers and how it can help them going forward."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"There has been a lot of changes in HPE Primera OS, and most of the time any package related to it is simple to upgrade. It does not require any support for the operation. The customer can easily deploy any code directly from the GUI which is very good. Additionally, we have individual storage we can allocate and easily manage."
"Our customers have given very positive feedback about InfoSign, which is the management software for this solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"When taking into account the price, maintenance required, and performance of HPE Primera, it is an effective solution."
"The most valuable feature of HPE Primera is its performance and simple replication."
"The most valuable feature of HP Primera is that you don't have to buy an additional product for application replication. It's a stable product. The tool is scalable. I recommend HPE Primera because it's one of HP's most stable product."
"For over a year, I have not seen any downtime in the product."
"The file functionality could be better."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"More demonstration and training options are needed."
"The setup process could be improved. We had some issues regarding configuration and the time it took to do things. It wasn't specifically the people we worked with, but more the process and how it's done. They can work on that."
"The NAS part is very poor. It's very basic. Even Dell EMC has said that to us. We are waiting for version 3 of PowerStore for that. This must be improved and it is in the roadmap."
"After the smooth launch of the product in our company, only the areas around upgrades are a bit problematic. In our organization, we face difficulties when updating the product."
"The solution only does thin provisioning."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"We would consider this solution if the pricing is competitive with other options, as it offers a very good solution. However, the current price is slightly higher than the competition."
"The solution could prove the reporting."
"They could work to make scalability easier."
"Increasing the IOPS and throughput values would make the product even better. Improving the scalability of HPE Primera is also recommended."
"HPE Primera is not good enough as a storage solution as it does not provide a good NAS storage."
"There really isn't any aspect of the solution that needs improvement for the customer other than its price."
"Some application solutions can be more acceptable on the HPE Primera site."
"On the controller side, I would like to see NAS capabilities."
"The IOPS and throughput could be better. That's the only drawback compared to other vendors."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Dell SC Series, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE Primera report.
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