We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and SolidFire 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."It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"It worked flawlessly."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"HPE Primera is scalable."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"It is stable and reliable."
"When taking into account the price, maintenance required, and performance of HPE Primera, it is an effective solution."
"The initial setup is simple."
"It serves as the primary storage in my production environment."
"In my opinion, HPE is making good progress and moving ahead with InfoSight, which is predictive analytics and artificial intelligence."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"The simplicity of it."
"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"It needs to improve its price."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"It is a bit expensive."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"Increasing the IOPS and throughput values would make the product even better. Improving the scalability of HPE Primera is also recommended."
"We face challenges with false alarms, particularly daily alerts related to replication link breaks. I'm not happy with the customer service and support."
"There really isn't any aspect of the solution that needs improvement for the customer other than its price."
"HPE Primera is not good enough as a storage solution as it does not provide a good NAS storage."
"The pricing is very high."
"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."
"This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market."
"I would like to see improved training offered with HPE Primera."
"They could do a file-based NAS: SolidFire NAS-based. It's probably not its niche, but that is our direction, not to use block, and it's block. Solid state block is what it is."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"SolidFire should start from two nodes instead of the four nodes. That's the only thing. In a lot of solutions, we have to use four nodes, that's the better thing. But as a starting point, two is better. That's why their starting point is expensive."
"This solution would be improved if it were made to be more compatible with other products."
"The user interface needs to be improved. Much of the client feedback involves comments such as "Oh, it's hard to navigate through.""
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our HPE Primera vs. SolidFire report.
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