"For us, the initial setup was easy."
"It is an inexpensive storage solution."
"The Dell warranty is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are stability and response time."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its performance."
"I like the tool's CloudIQ feature."
"The initial setup was easy and simple."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its ability to provide small to medium-range storage. It doesn't have any specific standout features, but it's great for applications, such as surveillance where a large number of videos need to be recorded and performance isn't a priority."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"HPE StoreOnce has high performance."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its catalyst mode, along with better performance, backup, and recovery."
"The solution saves a lot of storage capacity."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"The initial setup is simple."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"If the solution came with a synchronous application, it would be particularly advantageous for small businesses operating across multiple sites."
"Dell PowerVault could improve by having a higher cache and file protocol support added."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user interface."
"The product is generally stable, but there have been instances, to my knowledge, where we faced issues in the controller during software upgrades. The availability is not at the desired level during these upgrade processes, as we sometimes need to shut down both controllers. This could be an area for improvement."
"I would like Dell to improve on the configuration of the disk groups. Only one group is expandable. Once you configure the other disk group types, you cannot expand them. It limits scalability. If you want maybe to grow a disk group, you lose information, and then you need to build it up again, which is not a good use case for customers."
"The tool needs to improve its UI."
"The high prices of the solution are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There have been situations when our customers requested professional support and the price of that feature is quite high."
"We would like to see some improvements in the Veeam Backup & Replication integration. It's good, but it has a lot of room to improve. In particular around the inability to easily move data between StoreOnce appliances."
"The latency is a bit high."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"They could provide more options for storage capacity."
"I would like to see better integration with Veeam software."
"HPE StoreOnce Backup to Disk (BTD) is not a good backup solution for NAS devices. It does not have a dual controller, so if one controller fails, the entire system will go down."
"One item I wanted to see is SSD drives as a cache, and that was, for a time, still lacking in StoreOnce, however, they have done it now. It's not available yet, however, it will be shortly."
"When it comes to upgrading, it always goes block-wise. One block is 48 TB raw capacity. It would be good if they can include a smaller capacity for SMB customers. Currently, it is not possible to increase in a smaller capacity. You have to buy the exact same unit. It would be great if they can provide a smaller next block. There are around 20 hard disks, and it would be really helpful if we can add 10 hard disks initially and 10 hard disks later."
Dell PowerVault is ranked 2nd in Enterprise SAN with 23 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews. Dell PowerVault is rated 8.4, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerVault writes "Easy to use with good integrations and reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". Dell PowerVault is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Huawei OceanStor SNS, Lenovo Storage V Series, ExaGrid EX and Cisco MDS Series, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost, Veeam Backup & Replication and ExaGrid EX.
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