"PowerVault comes with free software that performs functions like data deduplication and replication, which is cost-effective and delivers added value to the product."
"Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is easy to manage and easy to use."
"It is an inexpensive storage solution."
"Dell PowerVault is cheap."
"The stability is quite good. Once you deploy all the equipment, it's very stable."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its performance."
"The Dell warranty is the most valuable feature."
"HPE has reliable support for HDD replacement."
"There have been no fail-stop failures for the last five years."
"It is very stable."
"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."
"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."
"We need higher performance and more reliable storage."
"I would like Dell to improve on the configuration of the disk groups. Only one group is expandable. Once you configure the other disk group types, you cannot expand them. It limits scalability. If you want maybe to grow a disk group, you lose information, and then you need to build it up again, which is not a good use case for customers."
"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."
"Dell PowerVault is block-oriented storage only."
"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."
"The price of the solution could be lower."
"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), Lenovo Storage V Series, Huawei OceanStor SNS and ExaGrid EX, whereas HPE EVA is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE StorageWorks MSA.
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