"Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage."
"The stability is quite good. Once you deploy all the equipment, it's very stable."
"PowerVault comes with free software that performs functions like data deduplication and replication, which is cost-effective and delivers added value to the product."
"The storage has been good."
"It is an inexpensive storage solution."
"For us, the initial setup was easy."
"Dell PowerVault is cheap."
"Dell PowerVault is user-friendly and easy to deploy."
"HPE has reliable support for HDD replacement."
"There have been no fail-stop failures for the last five years."
"It is very stable."
"We need higher performance and more reliable storage."
"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 high prices of the solution are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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 could improve by having a higher cache and file protocol support added."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user interface."
"There have been situations when our customers requested professional support and the price of that feature is quite high."
"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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