"The initial setup was easy and simple."
"The most valuable features are stability and response time."
"The stability is quite good. Once you deploy all the equipment, it's very stable."
"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."
"Dell PowerVault is cheap."
"PowerVault comes with free software that performs functions like data deduplication and replication, which is cost-effective and delivers added value to the product."
"There have been no fail-stop failures for the last five years."
"It is very stable."
"HPE has reliable support for HDD replacement."
"There have been situations when our customers requested professional support and the price of that feature is quite high."
"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."
"We could set up the installation through a web server, but it's not very reactive on the web server. For example, when you launch a task, and you don't know exactly if the task has begun or if the task is in progress, or if it's finished. You have to wait for three to five to ten minutes to be sure that the task is running or in progress or finished. So at that point, it's not very good."
"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."
"The product could support an NVMe hard disk."
"Dell PowerVault is block-oriented storage only."
"Sometimes integrating into a cluster can be difficult as you have to do it manually."
"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."
"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."
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Dell PowerVault is ranked 1st in Fibre Channel with 23 reviews while HPE EVA is ranked 4th in Fibre Channel. 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 "There is reliable support for HDD replacement". 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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