HPE Primera Reviews

I work with an HPE authorized partner in Malta and we offer storage solutions for customers. HPE Primera is one such product that I have experience with.

We have noticed that these days, most of the customers are implementing a solution that is a hybrid between Nimble and Primera All-Flash. There are both spinning disks and flash, where flash is used as the cache, which makes the price more competitive.

The customers are primarily using it for disaster recovery. They have their cluster and they are replicating one another to provide business continuity and disaster recovery applications.

In my opinion, HPE is making good progress and moving ahead with InfoSight, which is predictive analytics and artificial intelligence. I think that this is one of the selling points for their storage products and it comes at no extra cost.

InfoSight is built by gathering intelligence from all of the storage solutions, worldwide.  If the AI is being used here in Malta, locally, as it would with InfoSight, then it would use baseline data from the whole world to make predictions. It is really robust.

Cases are opened automatically and they give you trend analysis as well.

Anything that helps administratively for a data center is important, and Primera gives you both efficiency and effectiveness.

The interface needs to be more user-friendly in that sense that installation and management are still a bit on the high end. It needs to be simpler.

I have been working with Primera for about two years.

Primera is really robust, effective, and cost-saving as well. It has 100% availability, which is quite a lot.

This is a scalable product.

The price of Primera All-Flash is going down, although this is more relevant for high-end customers. For small to medium-sized organizations, we are offering a hybrid solution.

We work a lot with HPE technical support and they are very good. We are very satisfied.

The initial setup is straightforward and the deployment should not take more than an hour.

Our in-house team is responsible for deployment and maintenance.

Malta is small, with a population of 450,000. Our company has 12 system engineers for enterprise clients.

Primera is still new, and it's in its inception phase. There are still not many installations around. My advice to anybody who is implementing this product is that they have to keep updated as technology advances. It's not a question of "it works, leave it there and don't take care of updates". You have to keep up to date with what is happening with the technology. Sometimes, we encounter customers that stagnate in their technology because they concluded that if it works then you don't have to do anything. That is not a good approach because it's a continuous transformation.

In summary, this is a good solution and my only complaint is about user-friendliness. I am sure that in the future, and with InfoSight, things are going to get better. This is similar to what has happened to this point, where limitations that were present in previous versions have been enhanced. Personally, I have not encountered any limitations.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We use the product for file and document management services.

HPE Primera is more stable than one of its competitors.

The product’s price needs improvement.

We have been using HPE Primera for a few years.

The product has good stability.

We have ten to fifteen HPE Primera users in our organization. It scales up to the maximum level.

The technical support services are good.

The initial setup is simple. It is easy to deploy for a specialist or a certified engineer. The deployment time depends on the scope of work and environment. It takes more than one or two weeks.

HPE Primera is an expensive product but has competitive pricing. It is based on performance, product quality, technology, and other features. We have purchased its yearly license.

I rate HPE Primera an eight out of ten.

HPE Primera is used to expand our VMware Cloud Service.

When taking into account the price, maintenance required, and performance of HPE Primera, it is an effective solution.

The solution has good performance but it could improve further.

When we compare HPE Primera to Huawei, Huawei is a better solution. However, here in Sri Lanka, the support is not that good for Huawei.

I have been using HPE Primera for one and a half years.

HPE Primera has been stable in our usage. It has been working for almost two years without any problems.

The solution is scalable.

The support of HPE Primera is good.

HPE Primera service is cost-effective.

During our evaluation of solutions, such as Huawei, we found most of the equipment is the same. We chose HPE Primera because it was priced well.

I rate HPE Primera a seven out of ten.

One of our customers is using a Telco system and they are using Primera for storage. There are customers who ask for cloud infrastructure which they are providing.

The performance of the solution is good.

I have been using the solution for approximately one year.

The solution is stable and the performance is good.

HPE Primera is highly scalable.

We have one customer for this solution.

HPE Primera's technical support has been responsive.

HPE does the installation for us and it took approximately two hours.

We used HPE to do the full implementation of the solution. 

We have two engineers for the maintenance of the solution.

There is only a one-time license purchase needed and no additional costs.

If HP could reduce the training cost, then that would be advantageous to the seller.

I would recommend this solution to others. It is a tier zero solution with high performance.

I rate HPE Primera a nine out of ten.

The cost of HPE Primera could be lower. 

I have been using HPE Primera for some three months now. 

HPE Primera is stable. 

HPE Primera is scalable.

I did not previously use a different solution. 

The initial setup was simple. It was easy to manage. 

At the moment, I can't say much about the price except that it is reasonable. 

I have been using this solution for a few weeks — we're in the testing phase. 

I believe HPE Primera and Pure Storage are similar in price. 

We're also testing Pure Storage. They're almost the same, but Pure Storage is fancier, easier to use, and offers more features than HPE Primera. The embedded file server, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give HPE Primera a rating of seven. 

We sold Primera to a public university, and they're happy with it. They have been using it for about four months with no significant problems. 

I've used Primera in the past 12 months.

Primera is stable.

Primera is scalable. 

We haven't had any problems with HPE support.

Price is always important in Turkey, so HPE could lower the price to keep it competitive.

I rate Primera eight out of 10. It's not as competitive as other solutions in this market. 

HPE Primera is being used for server virtualization and critical applications. We have customers in Egypt and they use it for a billing system and an infrastructure database system.

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 solution could prove the reporting.

I have been using HPE Primera for approximately nine years.

HPE Primera has high availability and is stable.

The solution is scalable.

The price of HPE Primera could improve, it is expensive.

HPE Primera is useful for banking systems.

I rate HPE Primera a nine out of ten.