We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"The high availability was most valuable because they come with what's called 100% data availability. With special terms, they license and guarantee 100% data availability. That was probably one of the key features or components that HPE was offering with that model."
"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."
"All of the capabilities of the hardware such as replication, snapshot, and the specific features are all included from the start as opposed to being on another license."
"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."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The performance of the solution is good."
"In my opinion, HPE is making good progress and moving ahead with InfoSight, which is predictive analytics and artificial intelligence."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The replication and mirroring features are very good."
"The management software is very good."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"The stability, speed, and reliability are the solution's best features. The information is also very secure."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"The software layer has to improve."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"We need better data deduplication."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"The product's stale snapshots feature needs improvement."
"The reporting console can be improved with out of the box reports."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"Price is always important in Turkey, so HPE could lower the price to keep it competitive. It's not as competitive as other solutions in this market."
"The product’s price needs improvement."
"The cost of HPE Primera could be lower."
"On the controller side, I would like to see NAS capabilities."
"Some application solutions can be more acceptable on the HPE Primera site."
"The pricing could be cheaper and it should have documentation in more languages, specifically, Russian."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T"
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
"The solution's technical support is not as good as it is supposed to be since you have to push them to get support."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"The management interface, while very reliable, it seems a little old now and could maybe use a little modernization."
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HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Dell Unity XT, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE Primera vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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