HPE StoreOnce has nothing but great usability and superb support
Updated December 04, 2020
HPE StoreOnce has nothing but great usability and superb support
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with HPE StoreOnce
We don't currently use it at our home office, but we have deployed it with two customers as a DRP backup for vSphere infrastructure and a couple of IBM LPARs running RMAN.
- 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.
- Could be more user-friendly when deploying.
- Cost is as friendly as Pure Storage Array.
- HPE does well support this technology.
- 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.
- NetApp FAS series, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell EMC Unity and IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
Price mostly. Netapp has some not so good quirks about it's licensing, which aren't there with HPE. The rest are good but the ROI is not that well since they seem overpriced sometimes.
Do you think HPE StoreOnce delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with HPE StoreOnce's feature set?
Yes
Did HPE StoreOnce live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of HPE StoreOnce go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy HPE StoreOnce again?
Yes
HPE StoreOnce Feature Ratings
Using HPE StoreOnce
120 - Storing all the network shares for users and iscsi volumes for hyper-v and vsphere
3 - Service engineers mostly and myself a sysadmin
- VM storage
- user shares
- IT repositories
- nothing really, it just works as a storage backend for VMs and user shares
- Replication DRP
- repositories for IBM Power systems
Evaluating HPE StoreOnce and Competitors
Yes - Dell EMC Unity and a couple synology NASes
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
We used with another client and the needs for this new client were basic, so it was no brainer to pick this well known system from HPE
Well, definitely HPE support needs to improve its timing on reaching its clients, sometimes it takes too long, although this happens too on other division at HPE, so I would definitely not change my selection on choosing HPE StoreOnce again
HPE StoreOnce Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Yes - Yes, migration, deployment, QA and production analysis
Change management was minimal
- Nothing really we are used to implement new features and new systems
HPE StoreOnce Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed Support cares about my success | Need to explain problems multiple times Slow Initial Response |
The first time we set it up, it was fast to get support, the second time wasn't that fast
Using HPE StoreOnce
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Create datastores
- setup users
- adding more storage ends
- installing the administration console
- creating an iscsi target
- setting up network shares for windows