The most valuable features for us are the ease of use, the reliability, and the exceptional deduplication that we get across that data that we store on those devices.
I'm impressed with their support structure, call availability, understanding, flexibility in scheduling remote sessions, and accommodating customer timeframes.
Head of Hosting & LAN Services at Lanka Communication Services (Pvt) Ltd.
Apr 13, 2021
Deduplication and compression are in a good ratio. It supports the HPE Catalyst protocol, which is much faster than NFS and other protocols. We use CommVault and Veeam, and these two solutions support the Catalyst protocol very well and are integrated at high speed. It is faster than normal access.
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.
IT Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 18, 2019
The appliance doesn't have the global deduplication, it has StoreOnce deduplication. It does not deduplicate across the appliance, it will deduplicate in one particular store. With the global deduplication, I could store more data.
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 501-1,000 employees
Jul 8, 2016
We archive our backups on tape, so I feel like if we could somehow plug our tape drive directly into the StoreOnce device and set it up to where it would archive based on, if some kind of rules based engine or what have you, that would really be an improvement for us.
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.
Head of Hosting & LAN Services at Lanka Communication Services (Pvt) Ltd.
Apr 13, 2021
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.
