HPE StoreOnce Reviews

The most valuable feature would be the high deduplication ratios, capable of 20 or more to 1 dedup ratio in a real-world backup environment. It seems to work very good for long retention times, even if there is little use, but sometimes you have to do it due to legal reasons, and that is where it shines.

In my previous organization, it removed the need for manual tape swapping. Hence, it removed the need for actual tape changers to be at 50 separate remote sites, leading to huge savings for the company.

Also, offsite tape storage is replaced by replication to a different/central site/device such as StoreOnce B6200/B6500 or even some lower-end one, such as 4900.

I would like to see them add the ability to turn on/turn off global deduplication and etc.

Currently, only VTL-level deduplication is supported properly, while there seems to be some part of global deduplication working. However, in some rare cases, I saw data being removed on untouched VTL while you were deleting some particular cartridge within a separate VTL. It has probably been fixed by the most recent StoreOnce OS upgrades.

I have been using it for 4+ years.

I have not encountered any deployment issues.

Some models are shipped with one power supply by default, even when redundant PSUs are supported in pairs; be aware of that.

As long as the architecture was done correctly, I did not encounter any scalability issues. If an entry-level StoreOnce device is placed on a “soon to grow“ site, that is a planning mistake, not a scalability issue.

Customer service is great.

Technical support is great.

We switched because of company policy, the tapes aged, etc.

Initial setup was straightforward.

I was within support team, which did implement as well as support the solution.

Huge. Simply eliminating the need for tape changers returned the cost of the hardware within less than half a year.

Get an expert who knows the products, so you can get the best prices possible for both DP and StoreOnce. Because there are some things that can work for the same solution in different ways, hence they are differently licensed as well as priced.

Make sure architecture is planning properly, e.g., centralised or decentralised HPE DP Cell Managers give you some quite different options and etc.

Our customers use the solution for data backup scenarios.

The solution's most valuable feature is the ability to write multiple data backups simultaneously.

They should improve the solution's pricing. Also, the customer support service could be faster.

We have been using the solution for thirteen years.

The solution's stability is impressive; I rate it as a ten. We came across disk failure issues only once.

It is a very scalable solution for SMEs. It is possible to store additional data on the server using it. I rate its scalability as a ten out of ten.

I am satisfied with the solution's customer service, but they should respond faster. The last time we contacted them for some issue, they took around one week to resolve it.

The solution's initial setup is pretty straightforward. I rate the setup process as an eight. The time required for deployment depends on the workload. As far as the integration part is concerned, it takes a day to complete.

It requires two or three engineers to deploy the solution.

The solution's cost is above average. I rate its pricing as a seven. We purchase an annual subscription for its on-premises version. It is around 30% of the solution's cost. There are no additional costs apart from the standard license.

The customers can raise the solution's maintenance ticket for three years initially. It requires one executive to complete the process. Apart from it, they can raise tickets for technical support as well.

I recommend the solution to others and rate it as a ten.

HPE StoreOnce is used for archiving data and backup data.

By using HPE StoreOnce it can help organizations function.

HPE StoreOnce has high performance.

The user interface of HPE StoreOnce should be more user-friendly. Additionally, the configuration and troubleshooting could be better.

I have used HPE StoreOnce within the past 12 months.

HPE StoreOnce has been stable.

Some models of HPE StoreOnce are scalable and some are not.

My advice to others thinking about implementing this solution should look for newer upcoming technologies, such as ones on the cloud.

I rate HPE StoreOnce a ten out of ten.

HPE StoreOnce was being used as our backup and recovery solution. The software we were using was HP NetBackup, which is Symantec NetBackup.

The IT infrastructure we back up consists of close to 20 servers includes database servers, a web email server, and a REST application. This is a tape backup solution.

We didn't like anything about this product. For example:

• It is not easy to restore data on the fly. The backup and restore processes are very complex.
• Backing up data is slow, as it is a tape backup system
• The web interface, ease of use, and GUI all need to be improved.
• It needs better integration with other products, such as the ability to store backups in the cloud or in Microsoft Azure.
• They lack reporting functionality. All of the reports are just CSV files and you have to compile your own reports. When you look at other backup solutions, they have reporting and alerting built-in. You can also create customized reports with them, but not with StoreOnce.

We were using HPE StoreOnce for almost three years.

The stability is not very good. It is not software-driven, but hardware-driven.

If you have a large enough storage capacity then you can take an ample amount of data. That's about it, in terms of scalability.

There are five or six people in the IT team who were using it.

The support from HPE is terrible.

Prior to using this product, we were using Microsoft Backup, as it is built into the operating system.

A reseller was used to assist with the deployment.

When it comes to deployment, maintenance, and support, it used to cost at least 20% of the price of the hardware. That is simply not feasible.

The cost of HPE StoreOnce is very expensive.

Of my friends, colleagues, and peers, I don't know anybody who is still using HPE StoreOnce. They are typically using software-driven backup solutions like Acronis. I would not recommend this product to anybody.

I would rate this solution a three out of ten.

Compression of storage. Based on the amount of history that we've got to keep, it limits the amount of storage that we have to purchase.

It's more of a backup functionality. Backup really doesn't make a business do any better or any worse. It's really just storage of data. It's not a user interactive type process. They all go through and store data fine and they all go through and restore data fine. Is there really any business advantage of StoreOnce over some of the other vendors? Not really. It's just that we chose to work more with one vendor, so we get a better cost when we actually purchase stuff.

The beef I have not only with StoreOnce, but also all the Ops Bridge, the people who will be managing these things are going to be more your system administrators. They're not Java programmers. They want to try to do all the API's where people have to know Java to interface with them.

Whereas system administrators, they want to script stuff and so they're starting to turn a lot of their API's into command lines, which are wrappers around the Java API's. Lack of foresight of that is probably one of my biggest irks with HP on that.

I have no data on it as it's too soon in our use.

We've used NetBackup, then there's been some home-grown ones that people have done. StoreOnce is a backup solution with Data Protector in DDD and streaming through offsite storage. It works just fine. The big thing again, we come down to, is by having those products primarily with one vendor, we get a much better cost point.

We had no issues deploying it.

It works well with Data Protector. It works well with 3PAR and that's our environment and so it's a vendor specified solution.

For StoreOnce, we are using it in order to backup some databases. It works fine, and I think it's not a production device, but it still works fine. The time to do the backups is great for us because the last backups we used to have took at least 8 - 10 hours and at the moment the backups takes one hour or less.

It helps us with the backups of our corporate database in order to have the information backed up in case of disaster. It's great for us to take the information in minutes, instead of hours.

It's not big, but it could be smaller and take up less space in the data center. I saw some devices here that are smaller with more power, and I think that StoreOnce could be the same.

I think that we've had it for two years and it doesn't have any issue at this moment.

I've never had to contact tech support.

We had an EMC Data Domain device, but I don't remember the model of it. We switched because HP promised us that it would be easier to manage, easy to implement with the technicals details we use each day.

It was quick and easy to install.

The time to implement, the time to acquire the solution, integrating with our infrastructure was easy and the price was very good.

You need to work with a partner that knows the solutions deeply in order to implement the services and the solution well. It allowed us to provide the services that our customers needs.

• Redundancy
• Ease of use
• Scalability
• Disaster recovery

The greatest benefit to us has been lowering costs.

I'd like to see the following features added in:

• More detailed reporting
• More granular reporting
• More features in the CLI

Excellent.

Excellent.

Excellent. There has been an integrated partnership with the ability to answer any and all questions.

We were using a different solution, but it was too costly so we needed to switch.

The initial setup was straightforward. HP took a hands-off approach, which was good, and they let us do a lot of it on our own. We therefore didn’t have to do cross-training and we were able to do a lot of trial and error, which was good for us as well.

We also looked at EMC.

Most important criteria to look for includes:

• Price
• Features
• Functionality
• Ease of use

Definitely look at this solution as a viable option as it is cost effective and reliable.

It's fast and reliable when compared to tape solutions.

Over 51TB of data is backed up and replicated off-site every week quickly and reliably, compared to the laborious tape archiving solution we had in the past.

The web-GUI is not intuitive enough for basic users and offers fairly limited functionality compared to a backup solution such as Veeam or Backup-Exec.

I've used it for 15 months.

No issues encountered.

Rarely have issues with stability.

No issues when you need to scale up. It's as simple as 'chucking more disks' into the array when the space needs expanding.

Good from HP, as usual (on a contract).

Good from HP, as usual (on a contract).

We previously used Symantec Backup-Exec to LTO-4 tape. We switched because we needed a more scalable solution that was faster and allowed replication off-site nightly at a much quicker rate.

Simple, it was handled by HP.

We had HP do the implementation, with a third party consultancy firm called System Professional. They had exceptional understanding of the entire platform.

I cannot put a price on this investment. Suffice it to say that the countless number of man-hours saved not having to deal with tapes every day/week/month is invaluable.

£100,000 including installation, support and maintenance contracts. This also includes two StoreOnce devices - one at our datacentre, and one replica at another campus.

No, we have an extensive support contract with HP and were given a heavily discounted educational agreement as opposed to what other vendors such as EMC were offering.

If you work for an educational institution (as I do), the potential long-term savings will easily add up compared to the short-term initial investment. Do your homework and look elsewhere and you will find it difficult to beat the product/service in terms of cost and performance