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."Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"The technical support is very good."
"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 most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"It is scalable. Customers are going more into distributed architecture, so the Unity definitely has a scalable architecture built into that."
"We use replication for disaster recovery (DR), making our DR process much easier."
"Unified block and file storage without the need of control stations and data movers. This simplifies administration and deployment and requires less rack space."
"We can put all the virtualized servers in one place, so our customers can share and manage the devices very easily."
"It is simple to use and easy to manage. We don't touch it after we set it up."
"For sites that we use it on, it gives us more flexibility and high availability solutions. It is easier to expand the site, if needed."
"It gives me the flexibility with its ability to replicate to itself and the ability to use the Dell EMC Cloud as an option. That's always sitting there and waiting if we need it."
"It has a very intuitive web console that runs in HTML5 and makes navigation and administration fairly easy."
"The most valuable feature of HPE Primera is its performance and simple replication."
"The most valuable feature of HP Primera is that you don't have to buy an additional product for application replication. It's a stable product. The tool is scalable. I recommend HPE Primera because it's one of HP's most stable product."
"The performance of the solution is good."
"Our customers have given very positive feedback about InfoSign, which is the management software for this solution."
"In my opinion, HPE is making good progress and moving ahead with InfoSight, which is predictive analytics and artificial intelligence."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"When taking into account the price, maintenance required, and performance of HPE Primera, it is an effective solution."
"The most important thing that we had found when we purchased this product around six months back was its 100% availability and uptime."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"They could improve the price."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"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."
"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."
"The solution can use improvement with the patch cluster like the Synchron and Active replication."
"Recently, they released products, sometimes without proper testing, it seems."
"Dell EMC's competitor has a clustering technology. In the next release, it would be nice if they could build that into the product."
"I miss storage groups. Now, if I have to add a LUN to a cluster, multiple host, I have to know which host is in that cluster. I have to write it down and that makes it hard. In VNX and earlier, I could simply put a LUN on a storage group and every host in the group had the LUN. This lack bothers me a lot because it takes a lot of time and mistakes are made. Sometimes, a Hyper-V host gets a VMware LUN and vice-versa. Not good."
"It's very frustrating that it's not backward-compatible with the previous platforms, so it's a struggle for a lot of our customers."
"The VNX reporting is much more granular, versus the Unity reporting."
"The IOPS and throughput could be better. That's the only drawback compared to other vendors."
"The price of the product is an area of concern. From an improvement perspective, the solution should be made more affordable in terms of price."
"The product’s price needs improvement."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"On the controller side, I would like to see NAS capabilities."
"On the hardware side, you should have the ability to expand capacity to larger numbers."
"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."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 29 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 19 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Price / Quality ratio is good and since OE 5.03 code the array family reached a rather good maturity level". 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 Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, 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.
See our list of best All-Flash Storage vendors.
We monitor all All-Flash Storage reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.