"The solution is reliable and stable."
"Dell PowerVault is user-friendly and easy to deploy."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to set up PowerVault. I also like the provisioning of storage."
"The Dell warranty is the most valuable feature."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its performance."
"The initial setup was easy and simple."
"For us, the initial setup was easy."
"HPE has reliable support for HDD replacement."
"The solution's most valuable feature is storage provisioning, which allows me to easily provision the disk space on the servers."
"There have been no fail-stop failures for the last five years."
"It is very stable."
"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."
"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."
"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."
"Dell PowerVault could improve by having a higher cache and file protocol support added."
"In the next release, I would like the deduplication and compression included, as well as the flash technology. It doesn't currently use it."
"The product could support an NVMe hard disk."
"If the solution came with a synchronous application, it would be particularly advantageous for small businesses operating across multiple sites."
"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."
"I faced some issues during the disk replacement process in HPE EVA."
"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 with 4 reviews. 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 "Has the ability to automatically deal with faulty disks". 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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