#1 most frequent
United States of America
30.6%82 installations of 268
What is HPE StoreOnce?
HPE StoreOnce is a backup and recovery hardware solution from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, providing disk-based backup, deduplication, and long-term storage. StoreOnce offerings can support virtual and cloud environments for small business, mid-size organizations, and enterprises.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Universal recovery
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
Category average: 8.4
Instant recovery
Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly
Category average: 8.6
Multiple backup destinations
Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location
Category average: 8.4
Areas for Improvement
Business application protection
Protection of all applications running in the data center
Category average: 8
Flexible deployment
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
Category average: 8.3
Management dashboard
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
Category average: 8.6
Who Buys & Uses HPE StoreOnce
#2 most frequent
France
8.6%23 installations of 268
#3 most frequent
Turkey
6.7%18 installations of 268
The best vm and agent backup storage system there is
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use HPE StoreOnce for vm and agent based backups for Veeam. It is a wonderful product that works amazing well with top notch performance both in backups and in restoring content. We use this product across our entire IT infrastructure for all virtualization backups and agent backups. It is so successful we have upgraded from a previous model to this model due to its high quality backup functionality.
Pros
- vmware vm backups
- windows agent backups
- hyperv vm backups
Cons
- file share based backups
- larger drive options for the storage system
- somewhat dated on network connectivity parts to have the fastest network connections
Return on Investment
- It is extremely expensive compared to other backup systems for vms
- it is overly expensive based on the hard drives and storage per tray cost in a HPE StoreOnce. Needs drive size optionality
- we recovered from a ransomware event years ago and we did it in a few days which we've heard of all kinds of poor recovery efforts from smaller companies on other backup system devices and software. Extremely happy with this
- incremental and file based recoveries have been bullet proof with this backup system
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Barracuda Backup, NetApp E-Series, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Avamar, Dell Unity XT Unified Storage and QNAP NAS
Other Software Used
NetApp E-Series, QNAP NAS, Pure Storage FlashArray, Barracuda Backup
Smart Backup Server that helps reduce size on disk
Pros
- We really like the deduplication feature of HPE StoreOnce. It helps reduce storage footprint by 1:3 to 1:10 depending on type of files being stored.
- It's easy to manage files on HPE StoreOnce servers using command line options.
- We use Veeam Backup Server software to manage our backups on HPE StoreOnce.
Cons
- StoreOnce to StoreOnce Replication is not real time. It needs to be setup as copy jobs with specific time interval.
- There is not StoreOnce Catalyst Stores Replication between two HPE StoreOnce servers.
- Navigating through large number of files on the server is slow and sometimes causes GUI interface to hang.
Most Important Features
- StoreOnce Catalyst Stores
- CIFS shares
- Deduplication
Return on Investment
- It has helped us reduced our overall backup storage footprint
- It provides faster backup and restores compared to tape devices.
Alternatives Considered
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery
Other Software Used
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Veeam Backup & Replication, HCL BigFix (formerly from IBM)
HPE StoreOnce has nothing but great usability and superb support
Pros
- It handles the storage on a DRP quite well.
- It was not that hard to implement it, even though 3Par was easier.
- Setting it up on vSphere was painless.
- It was easy to link the paths on a couple VIOSes.
Cons
- Could be more user-friendly when deploying.
- Cost is as friendly as Pure Storage Array.
- HPE does well support this technology.
Return on Investment
- Well, HPE is our partner so we support the product directly, which means it gives us a slice of the contract as long as the client is happy, which they are.
- At first, our client was not happy about the deployment, which took some time, which could be a starting point for HPE.
- The management console is easy to handle and very intuitive; we really like it.
Alternatives Considered
NetApp FAS series, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell EMC Unity and IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
Other Software Used
Pure Storage FlashArray, IBM Storage Insights, Dell EMC Unity, HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, NetApp FAS series
Usability
An awesome backup infrastructure solution
Pros
- Backups to HPE StoreOnce device is very efficient. This is particularly because we are using all SSD (flash ) devices in our HPE StoreOnce infrastructure.
- The compaction ratio with HPE StoreOnce is amazing which reduces our total storage footprint by upto 95%.
- It supports both block storage and file system storage. This is especially beneficial since we wanted one backup infrastructure for both our application and database backups.
Cons
- We had a little trouble sending backups of physical servers using SMBv1 protocol to SMBv2 CIFS shares. We had to implement a work around but it would have been nice if StoreOnce could be smart enough to take care of SMB version automatically.
- There is no native Catalyst Store replication from one StoreOnce device to another StoreOnce. The replication has to be handled by the backup software which is backing up to one StoreOnce device. This puts an extra overhead on the source.
- HPE StoreOnce command line is a little complicated for beginners. It takes a little while to get familiar with how to leverage it.
Return on Investment
- We are pleased to use HPE StoreOnce for our backup infrastructure. We did not had to hire a separate storage folks and this has greatly cut down on our cost.
- HPE StoreOnce is very fast and efficient. We have not had any complaints of backups going slow.
Alternatives Considered
NetApp FAS series
Other Software Used
Oracle Database 12c, Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware ESXi, VMware Site Recovery Manager, Windows Server, Azure Active Directory, JIRA Software, Control-M, Oracle GoldenGate, ClickUp, Slack
Usability
Versatile backups. ease of administration and amazing compaction ratio
Pros
- File uploads and querying the backup repository is quite fast, given that we have so many backups and a good retention period.
- A free add on "HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Plugin for RMAN" was a great benefit. We saved the cost of buying an additional backup infrastructure for our databases.
Cons
- HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Stores do not have a native replication. You will have to rely on third party software to backup your backup files from primary StoreOnce to secondary StoreOnce.
- We also see disconnects in the HPE StoreOnce Catalyst RMAN Plugin. We are still trying to figure out if this is a StoreOnce issue or something with our network.
Return on Investment
- HPE StoreOnce doesn't require a lot of technical knowledge for day to day administration and management. This helps reducing IT support staff cost.
- It provides an amazing compaction ratio and saves you a lot on the storage side.
Alternatives Considered
Barracuda Backup
Other Software Used
Apple iCloud, Google Drive, MS SharePoint