"The stability is quite good. Once you deploy all the equipment, it's very stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is easy to manage and easy to use."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to set up PowerVault. I also like the provisioning of storage."
"For us, the initial setup was easy."
"The initial setup was easy and simple."
"The storage has been good."
"PowerVault comes with free software that performs functions like data deduplication and replication, which is cost-effective and delivers added value to the product."
"It is an inexpensive storage solution."
"It is very stable."
"HPE has reliable support for HDD replacement."
"There have been no fail-stop failures for the last five years."
"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."
"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."
"There have been situations when our customers requested professional support and the price of that feature is quite high."
"The price of the solution could be lower."
"If the solution came with a synchronous application, it would be particularly advantageous for small businesses operating across multiple sites."
"Dell PowerVault could improve by having a higher cache and file protocol support added."
"Sometimes integrating into a cluster can be difficult as you have to do it manually."
"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."
"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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