We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and Pure FlashArray X NVMe 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."The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Support has been helpful."
"Our customers have given very positive feedback about InfoSign, which is the management software for this solution."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. It's not overly complex."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the artificial intelligence for the storage inside of the software and firmware because customers do not like functionalities which require manual interruption."
"HPE Primera is stable."
"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."
"HPE Primera has good integration. All the users are using HP servers and some systems, such as Synergy, which integrate well into the solution."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"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."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"The latency is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"The reporting console can be improved with out of the box reports."
"We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data."
"HPE Primera is not good enough as a storage solution as it does not provide a good NAS storage."
"HPE Primera's deduplication area is not as good as the one offered by Dell PowerStore, making it an area where improvements are required."
"I would like to see improved training offered with HPE Primera."
"Price is always important in Turkey, so HPE could lower the price to keep it competitive. It's not as competitive as other solutions in this market."
"The solution could prove the reporting."
"The solution could improve by having seamless migration from other storage systems. The process should be made easier."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"Right now, the box itself is just strictly working as a backend storage system. It would be fantastic if we could access it directly like a NAS device through network access or SIS drives. I think they have an interface, but I am not sure how good it is. If we could address a box directly on the network without having to go through a server, it would be great. The replication schemas could be improved. We are not using replication on the storage level right now. We use a different type of replication. If their replication would be as good as the one that we have, I would probably run the replication schema because it might be faster, but I don't know that for a fact. So, I cannot say that they have good replication. All I can say is that they need to inform us better."
"It is on the expensive side."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is ranked 14th in All-Flash Storage with 28 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure FlashArray X NVMe writes "Works well, is easy to implement, and has upgrade analysis capabilities". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Pure FlashArray X NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our HPE Primera vs. Pure FlashArray X NVMe report.
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