"The solution is reliable and 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."
"I like the tool's CloudIQ feature."
"Dell PowerVault is cheap."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The stability is quite good. Once you deploy all the equipment, it's very stable."
"Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage."
"The Dell warranty is the most valuable feature."
"It is very stable."
"There have been no fail-stop failures for the last five years."
"HPE has reliable support for HDD replacement."
"The product is generally stable, but there have been instances, to my knowledge, where we faced issues in the controller during software upgrades. The availability is not at the desired level during these upgrade processes, as we sometimes need to shut down both controllers. This could be an area for improvement."
"Dell PowerVault could improve by having a higher cache and file protocol support added."
"The tool needs to improve its UI."
"The product could support an NVMe hard disk."
"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."
"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."
"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."
"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 16 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 "Offers good stability and simplicity". On the other hand, 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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