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.
"Technical support is good."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The valuable features of Unity include that it's flexible, has a friendly user-interface, and provides good performance."
"All-flash performance, Snapshotting capabilities and replication are all valuable features."
"The ease of management and “user-friendly” management environment (GUI)."
"It is easy to manage overall. It is all web-based. It has a an easy, nice dashboard. I receive emails if there are issues. When there are any updates, I receive emails. I can either do them on my own, but normally I schedule them with Dell EMC and they remote in, then it's done."
"Its main advantage over vSAN was the rebuild, the intelligence of the restoration in the event of a hardware drive failure and, of course, the all-flash solution."
"A lot of the Unisphere interfaces are greatly improved in terms of monitoring capabilities, alerting, and ease of use. Setting up the storage and the file system are all just a few clicks away."
"The most valuable features include snapshots, Thin Clones, and deduplication and compression."
"We like the way it integrates with our environment. These features help us use multiple soft applications. The new features of going off the grid and replicating really help us. They give us an advantage versus traditional storage resources."
"HPE Primera is scalable."
"HPE Primera has good integration. All the users are using HP servers and some systems, such as Synergy, which integrate well into the solution."
"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 initial setup is very straightforward. It's not overly complex."
"The interface is simplified."
"HPE Primera provides me with system reliability and 100% data reliability. The storage is good and is consistently reliable and scalable, allowing me to use it whenever needed. The overall performance is great. The product is stable. The customer service and support is excellent. It's a commendable solution, especially suitable for online transactions. It is reliable in meeting data requirements."
"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."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"It could be a little easier to attach it to a network file system."
"Unity only does compression. It would be nice if there was a deduplication feature as well. At my previous job, we used XtremIO and that was deduplication and not compression, and I think we got more out of it because the more OSs you have that are the same, the fewer copies it needs to keep of all that data. So, the deduplication would be a nice feature to have."
"Since Dell took over EMC, the support has been very bad. Before, the support was fine. Now, the support is slow or they don't react."
"I would like to see better compression, better dedupe. It's not nearly as good as what is built into the XtremIO. I understand why that is the case, but if they can take some of that technology and leverage that a little bit better in the Unity array, that would be great."
"The interface can be a little challenging for someone new."
"Support Responsiveness & time to fix bugs should be improved."
"It could always use native replication. Then I could get rid of RecoverPoint."
"You can't use every feature, because it costs in performance. Therefore, you have to choose which features to use to achieve a better environment. That is why customers do not use every feature in Unity."
"The solution could prove the reporting."
"We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data."
"HPE Primera's pricing model is an area of concern and can be considered for improvement."
"Increasing the IOPS and throughput values would make the product even better. Improving the scalability of HPE Primera is also recommended."
"The cost of HPE Primera could be lower."
"Primera should be more user-friendly."
"They could work to make scalability easier."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 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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