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The HPE MSA is best suited for basic SAN requirements. Having dual controllers provides redundancy and allows for firmware upgrades without incurring downtime to the environment. It provides enough IOPS for most workloads be it VMWare or servers requiring storage. For applications such as MS SQL or Exchange, other SAN solutions would be better. Plus the lack of storage snapshot capabilities is also a detriment to the product line. Lack of any reporting capability is also an issue especially when determining workload capabilities.
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Best suited for virtualization and multi-environment implementations. Bare metal deployments have a few more limitations.
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Functions well as a disaster recovery cluster repository Since the space is a spinning disk, it is inexpensive All of our VMs are stored in a mass storage repository on the system, but we could carve out specific LUNs if needed. Read full review Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Nearly instant configuration of applications according to specific requirements within a single pool Deployment, updating and monitoring via a single interface Updates and redeployment with minimal service interruption Support for virtual, bare metal and containerized workloads Read full review Cons Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Firmware upgrades. We have had major issues on two occasions, causing extended downtime. HP was quick to help and resolve, but I am not sure why our simple implementation caused an issue that should have been picked up by testing prior to release. Once was bad, twice painful. The end result is that we purchased a unit solely to test firmware upgrades on, not really great for us! Support life span. Units go end of life support after around 4 years, a little too short for us. Read full review Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Firmware repository size limitations could be larger (was increased recently but still is only room for a few SPPs) Profile template updates flag all machines that haven't had their profile updated from the template, causing the dashboard to go red with warnings and can cause unnecessary concern OneView, while powerful isn't as user friendly as it could be Read full review Likelihood to Renew Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It is a functioning Replication system for us and checks all the boxes that the auditors are looking for. Further, it is inexpensive and the storage we purchased was cheap. HP has a good reputation in the industry that plays into the decision also.
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The hardware has fulfilled all of the promises that it made when we first acquired it. The only thing that would preclude this would be if the organization decided to holistically switch hardware vendors for reasons other than performance and feature sets.
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The dual controller configuration of the HPE MSA trumps the
Synology DiskStation 's single controller configuration. For that alone, I would select the HPE MSA. Without that setup, any controller issue or firmware upgrade is disruptive to the systems the SAN is providing storage to. Furthermore, HPE's support is better than what Synology currently provides. The lack of phone support on Synology's part slows down the troubleshooting of issues compared to HPE. Furthermore, HPE's engineers are able to do a remote session and can work on the problems directly compared to Synology's support.
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While all similar offerings can achieve basically the same thing, HPE Synergy stands out against Cisco and Dell offerings with respect to manageability, ease of use and flexibility - HPE Synergy offers configurations groups of chassis to create logical enclosures that can be managed as a single entity and also blades in any slot can be plumbed and allocated as necessary to multiple uplinks. This is one level more flexible than the others which limits configurations of blades in a single chassis to similar uplink settings. Also, the HPE Synergy chassis itself supports 12 blades vs 10 in competitive offerings.
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Increased up time. Better user experience. Good value for money. ROI high. Peace of mind. Just knowing that you rely on the solution to meet storage performance needs is great. Read full review Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Eased concerns for go-live of a huge new deployment as we knew we could respond to any scaling concern swiftly and thoroughly Hardware has been rock solid since implementation Limits to initially deployed logical enclosure configurations have been addressed rapidly by the introduction of new hardware with fast speeds/additional management ring connectivity options Read full review ScreenShots