We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and HPE Primera based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The Unity XT box is very strong. It doesn't break. The MTBF time is very large so you don't have to worry about faults or outages in your operations."
"We just started doing a bunch of automation where, if an end-user's home directory or departmental share gets filled, I can set certain things through a Unity API so that if it reaches 95 or 98 percent full, it will automatically expand. Now, instead of our getting a ticket and having to go in and do it manually, it does that for us."
"Being all-flash makes everything super-fast. It's also great to manage. That's the easiest part. We also have another SAN, from Pure, and the Unity is easier to manage than the Pure."
"Dell Unity XT is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The technical support is very professional and provides quick responses."
"The All-Flash models are pretty fast for the vast majority of our remote workloads."
"We have simplified it down to where we're using one storage pool inside the Unity, whereas on the VNX, we had multiple storage pools. This has simplified that aspect for us. It would depend on each organization. We're heavy into VMware and this ties into it so simply. It's made it a lot easier for us. I create a datastore inside Unity, it just shows up in VMware. I love that tie-in."
"The most valuable features include snapshots, Thin Clones, and deduplication and compression."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the artificial intelligence for the storage inside of the software and firmware because customers do not like functionalities which require manual interruption."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. It's not overly complex."
"The most valuable feature of HPE Primera is its performance and simple replication."
"All of the capabilities of the hardware such as replication, snapshot, and the specific features are all included from the start as opposed to being on another license."
"Primera's main advantage is its support for NVM drives and normal flash drives. It has some sort of AI analysis that automatically tells us how to optimize the performance."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"The most important thing that we had found when we purchased this product around six months back was its 100% availability and uptime."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"Software updates have to be downloaded to the root of the device. This pushes the available space to 95% utilization."
"Problems with I/O modules, with bugs that came out that really should have been caught before the product was released."
"The product’s pricing should be improved."
"We'd like to see a cheaper version of an all-flash array in that footprint."
"The support portal needs fixing. Accessing a service request on the support portal seems to be a bit difficult, as opposed to just calling the 800 number."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say its capacity and its connection."
"Support Responsiveness & time to fix bugs should be improved."
"Scalability is not good. We have a Unity 300, now we have to do a data-in-place conversion for the next upgrade because only 150 slots are supported, not drives, only slots."
"Increasing the IOPS and throughput values would make the product even better. Improving the scalability of HPE Primera is also recommended."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"HPE Primera's pricing model is an area of concern and can be considered for improvement."
"This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market."
"The IOPS and throughput could be better. That's the only drawback compared to other vendors."
"One of the drawbacks of the model we purchased is that it is not running NVMe drives. Even though they say that it is NVMe-ready, it is still on the SSD drives. The model that we purchased has only eight hard drives, and only the ones on the top could work on NVMe. The rest of them are still on the SSD. Its competitors, such as EMC and Pure Storage, are moving or have already moved to NVMe. HPE should improve this solution for NVMe. HPE should also improve IOs in this solution. IOs in HPE are weaker than Hitachi and Pure Storage."
"We used to receive hardware errors a lot of times. The ambient temperatures rise rate was approximately 35 to 55 degrees, but when it was approximately 27 or 28, we used to get errors a lot."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly in that sense that installation and management are still a bit on the high end."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 189 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Dell Unity XT vs. HPE Primera report.
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