We compared Dell Powerstore and HPE Primera based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Dell EMC Powerstore seems to be the slightly superior solution because it is easier to use.
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"It has its own file formatting protocol, which saves a lot of space."
"Reliable, with comprehensive features and a well-established support base."
"The deduplication functionality provided by the solution is fairly good. The speed offered by the product is enough for our organization."
"Dell EMC PowerStore is scalable."
"It is very easy to use. Access is very friendly. It shows you a lot of important information at the first glance. It has been very easy to use."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"HPE Primera has good integration. All the users are using HP servers and some systems, such as Synergy, which integrate well into the solution."
"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."
"The performance is very good."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The product is stable."
"HPE Primera is an all-flash storage product that's very stable and has a higher storage capacity. It can also give better ROI compared to NetApp."
"When taking into account the price, maintenance required, and performance of HPE Primera, it is an effective solution."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"The price is on the higher side."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"You cannot delegate permissions."
"The only area I can highlight for improvement is that the 4:1 data reduction target has not been reached. This may be due to an issue with Dell EMC's initial analysis of data compression. As a result, we have had to add new physical disks to reach our goal of total available disk space."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"Dell PowerStore is a good solution overall, but some models could support hypervisors better by allowing for more customization and flexibility for customer needs."
"The customer service and support are bad."
"The NAS part is very poor. It's very basic. Even Dell EMC has said that to us. We are waiting for version 3 of PowerStore for that. This must be improved and it is in the roadmap."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"There are certain features that require engineering-level access, which should be accessible to storage admins as well."
"Some application solutions can be more acceptable on the HPE Primera site."
"The file server embedded in Pure, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage."
"The product’s price needs improvement."
"We have not had a good experience with support from HPE Primera. They can improve."
"The IOPS and throughput could be better. That's the only drawback compared to other vendors."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 37 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 19 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "Saves us power and floor space, and we can quickly assign new data stores for our developers' VMs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A tool that offers quality, stability, scalability, and features that are good for storage purposes". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Dell SC Series, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem and Dell Unity XT. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE Primera report.
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