HPE Primera Room for Improvement
HPE Primera is not good enough as a storage solution as it does not provide a good NAS storage. The solution's NAS system is a part that is only used during the product's marketing. I think the area revolving around unified storage needs to be a little better at work. To be honest, during the implementation stage of HPE Primera, my company never used NFS or CIFS to create file sharing.
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VijayKumar20
GM at SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant
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. Though I work for a big enterprise-sized business where the cost shouldn't matter much, I feel that HPE Primera is a bit costly.
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reviewer2226111
Head of IT Infrastructure Department at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I would like to highlight the aspect of security, especially when compared to certain other vendors. We've encountered issues in the past where maintaining a read-only state is essential to prevent data encryption when VPN access is impacted.
Some vendors have showcased the functionality of their arrays automatically transitioning to a read-only mode when they detect ransomware or suspicious activity, safeguarding data from corruption. Regrettably, we haven't seen both of these features in the HP ARAs we primarily use.
However, I can't state this with absolute certainty, but it's what we've observed so far. It would be beneficial if your organization could demonstrate any additional functionalities we may not be aware of.
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HPE Primera
March 2024
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Senthil Kumaran
IT Engineer at United Nations
Only HPE can manage the product. There is a single interface to manage multiple servers. The product should allow other low-cost management software to manage HPE Primera. If we have many HPE servers and storage, we must have HPE OneView to avail of all those features. If we don't have HPE OneView, we cannot manage them completely. HPE OneView’s license is expensive. There are other applications available in the market which are cheaper than HPE OneView and can also manage our infrastructure. When we add HPE devices to other applications, it doesn’t give us all the options to manage the infrastructure. The product should allow integration with other solutions.
View full review »HPE Primera needs to improve its command-line interface so that all its users or administrators can work on CLI Command Modes. HPE needs to improve its NAS solutions because it doesn't offer any NAS products.
There are certain shortcomings in the technical support offered by HPE where improvements are required. There is a lot of lag or delay from the end of technical support. In general, HPE's support team should improve on response time as it can be better.
HPE Primera needs to offer NAS solutions because it doesn't offer them currently. The CLI Command Modes need to be improved.
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reviewer1798086
Enterprise Account Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I haven't encountered any areas that need improvement since I consider HPE Primera a great solution.
HPE Primera's pricing model is an area of concern and can be considered for improvement.
We face challenges with false alarms, particularly daily alerts related to replication link breaks, indicating link code downtimes. However, upon checking, the link is consistently up. We have even carried out load testing. Despite escalating the issue to the highest level at HP, the response is attributed to a bug. We have also upgraded to the next version, yet the problem remains unresolved. These daily false alarms about application link breaks generate around five to six tickets.
The other aspect is that the alerts occur at different times throughout the day. It becomes challenging to justify to senior management, who may lack the technical understanding to grasp the reasons behind the high ticket count.
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reviewer1846275
Service Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I'm very satisfied with HPE Primera, so I can't think of an area for improvement, but if they could increase the value of the IOPS and the throughput, that would be good.
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SushilKumar1
Security Officer at Videocon Intelligent Security Private Limited
Everything is up to par. We are happy with the product and do not need extra features.
The pricing is very high. There are other products at much lower pricing.
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Mehmet Inoglu
IT Infrastructure Manager at Yıldız Holding
Some application solutions can be more acceptable on the HPE Primera site because the size is important and costly.
HPE offers a lot of storage solution options but they don't offer matrix storage which is available with some of their competitors like Dell and because of this, they can't meet some customer requirements.
I would like to see improved training offered with HPE Primera. Being the front-end facing the customer, it would be beneficial to understand better how to support the customer with their questions. Currently, the customer reaches out to me with their questions and I take the questions to customer service. It would be better if I had the knowledge to be able to resolve the concerns myself.
View full review »The solution could improve by having seamless migration from other storage systems. The process should be made easier.
View full review »The IOPS and throughput could be better. That's the only drawback compared to other vendors.
View full review »We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us.
Primera should be more user-friendly. It's currently a bit disconnected. Moreover, there should be more availability in Brazil.
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Md Aktaruzzaman
Executive IT at GBEL
The product’s price needs improvement.
View full review »The product's stale snapshots feature needs improvement.
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HPE Primera
March 2024
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