We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and HPE StoreOnce 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."Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"In my opinion, HPE is making good progress and moving ahead with InfoSight, which is predictive analytics and artificial intelligence."
"HPE Primera provides me with system reliability and 100% data reliability. The storage is good and is consistently reliable and scalable, allowing me to use it whenever needed. The overall performance is great. The product is stable. The customer service and support is excellent. It's a commendable solution, especially suitable for online transactions. It is reliable in meeting data requirements."
"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."
"HPE Primera is stable."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of deployment."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"Technical support is quite good."
"The product's most valuable feature is stability."
"We also really benefit from the GUI capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of HPE StoreOnce is the virtual drive."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature."
"It's easy to backup data, manage. A"
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"Automation could be simplified."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"The solution is not cheap."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"We face challenges with false alarms, particularly daily alerts related to replication link breaks. I'm not happy with the customer service and support."
"There really isn't any aspect of the solution that needs improvement for the customer other than its price."
"HPE Primera's pricing model is an area of concern and can be considered for improvement."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"We used to receive hardware errors a lot of times. The ambient temperatures rise rate was approximately 35 to 55 degrees, but when it was approximately 27 or 28, we used to get errors a lot."
"One of the drawbacks of the model we purchased is that it is not running NVMe drives. Even though they say that it is NVMe-ready, it is still on the SSD drives. The model that we purchased has only eight hard drives, and only the ones on the top could work on NVMe. The rest of them are still on the SSD. Its competitors, such as EMC and Pure Storage, are moving or have already moved to NVMe. HPE should improve this solution for NVMe. HPE should also improve IOs in this solution. IOs in HPE are weaker than Hitachi and Pure Storage."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"We have not had a good experience with support from HPE Primera. They can improve."
"HPE should have more options so customers can choose from a wide range of products with small to big capacities."
"Hardware maintenance involves some downtime for backup destination storage which can be a problem for some."
"This product would be improved with the inclusion of more features to security or WORM."
"improvement? HPE StoreOnce has a limitation with respect to controllers. Other tools offer more than one controller. I feel that the high availability of the view controller should be redundant. The tool’s control and UI part should be improved and made more advanced. The feature that helps with the manual movement of tapes should also be improved."
"They could provide more options for storage capacity."
"I would like to see an emphasis placed on making data deduplication and compression more powerful."
"While StoreOnce has many features, it needs to focus on integrating with third-party backup software solutions."
"The web interface, ease of use, and GUI all need to be improved."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. 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 HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE 3PAR StoreServ. See our HPE Primera vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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