The ability of HPE StoreOnce to scale is strong when more sizing options are available. We have lost some market due to the minimum capacity now being 80 terabytes. Previously, we discussed 24, 48, and 80 terabytes. I stocked 20 units of the former sizes, and they sold within 3 to 4 months as they met the needs of small and medium customers. Now that the minimum is 80 terabytes, we no longer cater to this category effectively.

The scalability of HPE StoreOnce is very good. I would rate it an eight out of ten as, although it's easy to add more units, the cost is still relatively high.

It is not as scalable as being backup.

Scalability is an issue. We cannot scale to a huge setup. We need to add the multiple StoreOnce to scale that.

Six to seven medium and enterprise 

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

It is scalable and offers good storage. 

I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. 

In terms of HPE StoreOnce's scalability benefits for our organization's growth, I would say that it is possible to scale up as and when there are requirements coming in from our customers.

The tool is scalable. We use the tool to take backups for the whole company. Our company is big. Two administrators work on the solution.

It is a scalable solution.

Though the product is scalable, there are a few limitations when it comes to certain models of the product. I have to go for HPE StoreOnce 3660 to be able to use 80 TB. If I need only 50 TB, meaning I need only low capacity to store data, then I need to choose a product that offers TB space meant for mid-size purposes. There is no model that provides a very small amount of capacity to function when it comes to HPE StoreOnce. If I go to purchase the license, then I need to pay a high price.

In terms of scalability, it's satisfactory as we can expand the StoreOnce solution as needed. Our clients range from medium to large enterprises.

It's not scalable. It's the same as Data Domain. When upgrading, it has a limited number you can upgrade by. I recommend it for smaller companies.

It is scalable for the model number we have acquired and it is still within our requirement. It is used at the enterprise level.

Small, medium and large organizations can take advantage of the tool’s capacity and performance.

We have 400 users in our organization. We have only one administrator.

HPE StoreOnce is a scalable solution. HPE StoreOnce is a backup tool, and we have configured it on around 500 nodes for backup. We have plans to increase the solution’s usage over a period of time.

The solution is definitely scalable, to the extent that we need it. For our purposes, it is definitely scalable enough. It's modular enough. You can add, with the 5260, 192 terabytes of raw capacity that you can extend one shelf at a time.

We have 300 HPE StoreOnce users. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

You can't increase the hard disk size. We bought two units. We have one unit connected to another unit. We have got ample capacity so far, and there is no need to increase it.

Currently, we have around 15 users. We have bought it for the backup of our customers. When it comes to customers, there are hundreds of customers.

The platform is suitable for enterprise companies. I rate the scalability a seven out of ten.

The product is easy to scale. It is suitable for SMEs and large-scale enterprises as well.

The scalability depends on the module. They have a lot of modules for the product and some are expandable while others come with a specific maximum capacity.

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.

The scalability of HPE StoreOnce is excellent.

I am the only one using this solution in my organization. 

HPE StoreOnce is scalable in general, but it all depends on your requirement. If this solution was to be used in a large environment with many queries it would have difficulties.

We have just reached capacity and we are now trying to get a new box.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. In my company, we work in an SME-type environment, which is not really large.

catalyst integration can give you unmatchable performance.

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

With StoreOnce, there are many different options for increasing the storage. I believe it's a good solution if a company needs more space for a reasonable price — it's easy to scale this solution.

The solution is scalable. 

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.

HPE StoreOnce has the highest scalability in the market. It is very good compared to products such as Dell Data Domain.

In terms of expanding, it depends on the type of license you have.

You have to purchase the license before you can add additional storage and space to expand.

The is an easy solution to scale.

There are several models of this device, and we have supplied our customers based on their requirements. Up to this point, they are still using the same models and we have not had to assist anyone with scaling this solution.

Scalability is good. When we bought the current model, 6500, we bought around 200 TB of capacity, and we are using more than three TB of data. In terms of scalability, we can go from 200 TB to 400 TB to 600 TB, or more. They also provide cloud banks, but I don't think we will be requiring that amount of storage in the future. Because of deduplication, we don't have to add so much physical capacity. Even if I add 32 TB or whatever the minimum capacity is, it can still hold lots of terabytes of data.

We have 1,300 users and three admin who are maintaining the solution. We use the solution every day to run backups.

We did some calculations on, when it says in the sales sheet that we got this number of terabytes, but the system itself uses some terabytes. So what we ended up with was having 10 or 11 terabytes less than HP actually said that it would contain. We had a lot of discussion about that with our distributors and sales persons. That's just how it is.

No.

We're able to scale it out to other centers.

Scalability, we bought the device with one external expansion option, and I think it'll scale up to four. For the next five to seven years, it should scale out for all of our needs. It's very good, we're a mid-size enterprise, so it will more to meet our needs unless something disruptive happens.

The scalability is very high and you can get more space if you need to grow.

We started small and it's grown exponentially since then. I'm not sure how much bigger we're going to get, but it is scaled greatly and performance hasn't decreased.

It's not necessary to scale the smaller equipment, and we haven't had to scale the larger equipment as our customers aren't there yet.

Scalability is fine.

Scalability is something that we haven't really needed to utilise but that was one key factor when we chose it over the other solutions. We haven't had to do any scaling yet. We have in the range of 10 to 20 TBs.

Scalability is very good.

When we started, it was already quite large, about 200 TBs. So far, we haven’t had any need to scale up.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

StoreOnce scaling has been good. We've done a couple of field upgrades, we've had three different generations, actually we're down to two now, we retired one of the out already. But we've done a field upgrade of both of those which went really well. As far as the top end capabilities, we're not there. Both of our current generations still have headroom for growth.

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.

The product did not scale well and had several issues where it bogged down under load. When used with a non HPE backup product, you really need to optimize the StoreOnce and your backup product to work well together.

We're currently using StoreOnce 2620 & 2700 on our 175 remote sites which are replicated on a Storeonce 4700 in our datacenter. The thing that I was afraid of when we chose StoreVirtual was the huge number of sites and therefore the number of StoreOnce units.

When it comes to scalability, expansion shelves are available for all models and HP provides a VSA version of StoreOnce, which is free of charge up to 1TB, so it is satisfying for us.

I have not yet encountered any scalability issues.

It's good. You can scale out if you have the money and you can add a lot to it.

I think that what other products or other competitors are lacking is the use and the adaptation for other applications within Microsoft. If you wanted to backup SharePoint or SQL or clusters or other kind of features within Microsoft products with other backup companies or other partners they don't necessarily have that compatibility. If you have a large environment with a lot of diverse applications and systems and configurations, Data Protector definitely covers that and obviously StoreOnce is backing that.

It's a good product to scale out because we can just buy more appliances and then we'll easily have more space.

We've had no issues with scalability.

We're not using anywhere close to what we have. We've designed it to allow for our five-year growth. We're not there yet.

We haven't had scalability issues. Again, we're able to store more data in a smaller space.

I just say I need X terabytes and I'm done. At the moment, we have around 150TB and we expect to grow because we're going more and more to video. We have four newspapers and an online presence with videos embedded in our stories.

We've got four trays of discs, and I think we can add another X number of trays, so it's not going to be endlessly scalable, but it's going to be scalable up to X.

We have not had any problems with the scalability of the B6200.

Scalability can become an issue once you grow past the capacity of a single cluster pair. This will mean additional controllers and licensing and can be fairly costly.

Scalability, that's one of the other features that I really like about it, especially in the virtual plans. All you do is if you run out of space, you add another VMDK and it just scales up seamlessly. You don't even have to reboot.

VMware changed something when they went to 6, even Comvault was a week behind, but while Comvault provided a solution, HP just released their updates a week or two ago in the new version – we now have to go to DP9.

My impressions of scalability would be- I’ll never need to much add more space. They did a great deal with me, they doubled the space I asked for. I have enough room for years, but it also is very easily scalable. If I need to put in more trays I can.

From a scalability perspective, some of the things that are intriguing to me are we have the ability to scale as the business needs and we can also contract, so we can be fluid. We can move when the business needs us to move, we can back up, we can make sure that we have all the pertinent data that the organization needs, and also have the ability to restore it quickly, and not tie up production systems and production storage while doing that.

It's 10/10.

Came with two additional enclosures to put the drives in and you can add another one. We ordered the additional enclosure, it arrived, we racked it up, connected it into the VTL and ran a command to say ‘recognise this enclosure - expand to this enclosure’ and it just did it. You don’t lose anything because the data that is on the existing enclosures just spreads out across the new enclosure.

We recently added more and it went very well. It's easy to add to this product.

Excellent.

It was not able to scale for us; we had to buy another solution (X9000) to store copies.

No issues encountered.

No issues with scalability. We purchased an additional 20TB shelf with the 4430 device (which came with a 20TB shelf included in the package we purchased).

We're unable to expand our storage capabilities smoothly.

No issues scaling the product.

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

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues with the systems size from VSA (Virtual appliance) to a four couplet system.

We have had to expand the capacity and there were no issues.

The scalability is something you need to plan for ahead, the amount of TB you're looking to backup now and how much it would grow in the future. Depending on the outcome of your calculation you need to choose the model accordingly (the higher models allow for more scalability - read higher amount of TB that can be stored).

768 TB raw (512 TB useable). Good enough for enterprise wide backup solutions.

No. This is an entry level model, and this one cannot be scaled.

The product can scale if you need it to.

We have 50 or 60 clients using the product.

The tool is a scalable solution, and it often works with Data Protector, a software that initiates the backup process. I rate it a ten out of ten.