We performed a comparison between HPE Primera and Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"It simplifies storage."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"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."
"For over a year, I have not seen any downtime in the product."
"The greatest advantage is the support when we encounter incidents, as HPE's support is highly responsive."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable 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."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to provide the IOPS ratio which is required by a lot of our customers."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of deployment."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"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 was not proactive communication."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"Some application solutions can be more acceptable on the HPE Primera site."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"I would like to see improved training offered with HPE Primera."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"On the hardware side, you should have the ability to expand capacity to larger numbers."
"HPE Primera is not good enough as a storage solution as it does not provide a good NAS storage."
"The solution could prove the reporting."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
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HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is rated 9.4. 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 Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array writes "Good support, improves performance, scales well, and boosts team efficiency". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Dell Unity XT, whereas Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is most compared with Pure FlashArray X NVMe.
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