We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and IBM FlashSystem 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.
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The scalability is good."
"When taking into account the price, maintenance required, and performance of HPE Primera, it is an effective solution."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. It's not overly complex."
"The performance is very good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"There has been a lot of changes in HPE Primera OS, and most of the time any package related to it is simple to upgrade. It does not require any support for the operation. The customer can easily deploy any code directly from the GUI which is very good. Additionally, we have individual storage we can allocate and easily manage."
"HPE Primera is stable."
"For over a year, I have not seen any downtime in the product."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"It is simple to make an update."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"The solution allows for easy migrations from previous products or vendors via its embedded storage virtualization function."
"The initial customer technical support was efficient and effective."
"One of the valuable features is the performance, it is one of the best in the market."
"The most valuable features in IBM FlashSystem are IOPS, performance, duplication, and compression."
"IBM FlashSystem has been stable in our operations."
"The Flash core models offer amazing performance."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"There are certain shortcomings in the technical support offered by HPE where improvements are required."
"There are certain features that require engineering-level access, which should be accessible to storage admins as well."
"Price is always important in Turkey, so HPE could lower the price to keep it competitive. It's not as competitive as other solutions in this market."
"On the hardware side, you should have the ability to expand capacity to larger numbers."
"We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data."
"Like most storage, we want to see flash become more and more stable. Like any flash that uses MLC or TLC techniques, over time, the more writes you have, the less usable the storage becomes. They try to plan for this and have a lot of extra space in the arrays, but over time, their performance does degrade. This is true for any flash 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."
"Increasing the IOPS and throughput values would make the product even better. Improving the scalability of HPE Primera is also recommended."
"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."
"I think the only thing the developers can look at, is that it is limited to 25 gigabytes currently. In the next release they might want to increase that."
"The support could improve by allowing you to speak to someone when you call rather than them calling you back. However, once we do have contact with one of their technicians they are excellent."
"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."
"GUI interface should be enhanced more as there is some issues in copy services."
"The customer's expectations are what they get on the cloud, they're expecting even in the on-premises deployments, going forward."
"The installation is not easy. You need to have extensive knowledge to handle it."
"The storage capacity of this solution could be improved."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". 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 Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series. See our HPE Primera vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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