We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and HPE Primera 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."I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"It's actually very stable"
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"Setup is simple."
"I like how it separates the iSCSI drives from the standard shares. It has two different routes to it. I know most of the other solutions do this, but I just like the way that Dell EMC does it."
"Dell Unity XT is user-friendly and easy to use."
"It is lightning fast, low on power and heat, and has a small footprint with great performance."
"It is nice the way ESRS works with remote support, being able to remote in and take a look at problems proactively."
"The most valuable feature is that the solution is a hybrid system, so you can do both block and file storage."
"The complete block and file sharing are the most usable features."
"When I have an issue and need technical support, I reach out to them either through chat or by submitting a service request, and the response is good."
"The most important thing that we had found when we purchased this product around six months back was its 100% availability and uptime."
"The most valuable feature of HPE Primera is its performance and simple replication."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the artificial intelligence for the storage inside of the software and firmware because customers do not like functionalities which require manual interruption."
"In my opinion, HPE is making good progress and moving ahead with InfoSight, which is predictive analytics and artificial intelligence."
"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."
"Our customers have given very positive feedback about InfoSign, which is the management software for this solution."
"We sold Primera to a public university, and they're happy with it. They have been using it for about four months with no significant problems."
"HPE Primera is scalable."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"They should update to the cloud."
"The only issue is with the product's scalability because it's not as scalable as the other polished tools in the market."
"The iSCSI and the VMware integation using vSphere could be less confusing."
"Dell EMC Unity is not sexy. It doesn't have all the flash and pizzazz of some of the other storage vendors."
"The product’s pricing should be improved."
"More integration with VMware would always be helpful, plugins that go directly into the vSphere management. A single pane of glass is always beneficial."
"Dell Unity XT could improve the compatibility of some of the features. Some of my customers had some problems. Additionally, it would be beneficial for the solution to have advanced AI and ML features."
"We did encounter a firmware bug which actually caused loss of data. There was some heartburn around that. But in general, it has operated as expected, except for that bug."
"The file server embedded in Pure, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage."
"Like most storage, we want to see flash become more and more stable. Like any flash that uses MLC or TLC techniques, over time, the more writes you have, the less usable the storage becomes. They try to plan for this and have a lot of extra space in the arrays, but over time, their performance does degrade. This is true for any flash storage."
"The price of the product is an area of concern. From an improvement perspective, the solution should be made more affordable in terms of price."
"This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"The pricing is very high."
"HPE Primera's pricing model is an area of concern and can be considered for improvement."
"Increasing the IOPS and throughput values would make the product even better. Improving the scalability of HPE Primera is also recommended."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 189 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". 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 Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Dell Unity XT vs. HPE Primera report.
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