We performed a comparison between HPE StoreEasy and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I can use both the on-premises and cloud storage options. I need to have an APR extension from StoreEasy, and it's that simple."
"I like the tool's provisioning feature and OneView."
"I like the user quotas, integrations, and separations for storage."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the duplication."
"This solution allows me to better and more easily manage user data without impacting my primary storage."
"The most valuable feature of HPE StoreEasy is the storing of virtual machines."
"We've found the solution to be very stable so far."
"Over the years, it has become increasingly user-friendly."
"The Flash core models offer amazing performance."
"The performance of the All-Flash System is very good. There is more enhanced performance and data production in the solution, which I appreciate."
"The most valuable features are, of course, the virtualization of the storage, the performance, and the compression."
"The most valuable features in IBM FlashSystem are IOPS, performance, duplication, and compression."
"IBM's technical support do excellent work."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and performance."
"When I configure the StoreEasy in a complex environment I have problems finding compatibility with all the software."
"The support of HPE StoreEasy can improve its responsiveness. Dell support is better."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. In the next release, I would like to access some Microsoft Windows storage server features. I guess the newest version of Windows Server has some restrictions."
"The cluster service is not available in the latest version of HPE StoreEasy."
"We need some monitoring tools and it would be helpful if they were included."
"I would like to improve the tool's technical support. I would also like to see the product's hybrid cloud version."
"AHV is Acropolis Hypervisor – A relatively new Hypervisor, robust and stable as VMware vSphere, has built-in advanced analytics and powerful operations, Self Service Portal and components for DevOps included, managed by a single pane of glass (Prism) via HTML5 and it is free of charge – That is why Nutanix is so advanced and revolutionary."
"They can improve its initial configuration. The initial configuration is currently very difficult. There are multiple choices or alternative ways to configure based on the use case and what you are targeting out of the device, that is, more capacity or more performance. These multiple alternatives cause a lot of confusion. They should increase the processing part of the nodes. Currently, you can cluster up to eight nodes. From my experience and the workload that I am facing in my environment currently, I would like to see either a bigger or stronger node or a larger number of nodes that can be clustered together. We formally communicated to them that we need to see either this or that, and they are working on something."
"This solution needs a management console where we are alerted to issues and can report them, or escalate them through email or another method."
"The solution is not able to replicate data in one-to-many scenario."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
"I have looked at a few pages of a report I download and I saw a graph there regarding software-defined vendors. IBM is not in a good position on this graph. I know that they are working very hard on this, to make it much better and to get to a level where it's not only hardware but also software to provide a complete solution."
"If you want to expand, you cannot expand the disc enclosure. You have to buy a total individual node. Sometimes, this is difficult because we are just looking for capacity and not a node."
"Product support is restricted to IBM only. It must be decentralized to IBM partners as well."
HPE StoreEasy is ranked 8th in NAS with 7 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews. HPE StoreEasy is rated 8.2, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE StoreEasy writes "Good backup solution for applications that is also scalable and stable ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". HPE StoreEasy is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp FAS Series, Qumulo, FreeNAS and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF. See our HPE StoreEasy vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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