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.
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"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."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"It simplifies storage."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution for me is the deduplication part, especially since most of the servers in our organization are Windows-based servers."
"Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"It has its own file formatting protocol, which saves a lot of space."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"The supportability of SCME drives for faster data access from the PowerStore and is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is simple."
"For over a year, I have not seen any downtime in the product."
"In my opinion, HPE is making good progress and moving ahead with InfoSight, which is predictive analytics and artificial intelligence."
"The most important thing that we had found when we purchased this product around six months back was its 100% availability and uptime."
"Our customers have given very positive feedback about InfoSign, which is the management software for this solution."
"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."
"The product is stable."
"We sold Primera to a public university, and they're happy with it. They have been using it for about four months with no significant problems."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"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."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Data reduction needs improvement."
"We would consider this solution if the pricing is competitive with other options, as it offers a very good solution. However, the current price is slightly higher than the competition."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"There are certain shortcomings with the technical support team of Dell PowerStore, where improvements are required."
"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."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster."
"I would like to see a Snapshot feature. Currently, it is unable to occupy the capacity."
"Some application solutions can be more acceptable on the HPE Primera site."
"This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market."
"We've encountered issues in the past where maintaining a read-only state is essential to prevent data encryption when VPN access is impacted."
"There are certain features that require engineering-level access, which should be accessible to storage admins as well."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"The product’s price needs improvement."
"The reporting console can be improved with out of the box reports."
"The solution could prove the reporting."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". 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 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 Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE Primera report.
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