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HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. Hitachi NAS Platform
May 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Hitachi NAS Platform and HPE 3PAR StoreServ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Featured Review
Anonymous User
Researched HPE 3PAR StoreServ but chose Hitachi NAS Platform: Good pricing and works well, but it is old-fashioned and should be replaced with something new
Anonymous User
Researched Hitachi NAS Platform but chose HPE 3PAR StoreServ: Automation of the failover allows the IT department of the hospital to improve the availability of systems.
Automation of the failover allows the IT department of the hospital to improve the availability of systems.
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Pros
"The pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well.""Simple and extremely reliable.""The product’s technical support services are good.""Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload.""The product has valuable features for data migration.""Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable.""The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance."

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"It's advantageous in terms of the cost, in terms of the performance, and taking up less space.""HPE 3PAR has all the common storage features like cell provisioning and deduplication. Usually the solution is chosen by the customer as they have a preference, or the setup is already in their environment.""The deduplication functionality is great. We have seen a lot of benefits in the deduplication ratio. So, it has proven that it is a good cost savings.""The most valuable feature of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is its online upgrades.""The most valuable feature of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is its storage capabilities.""With the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, we can grow as required.""The new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly.""This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."

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Cons
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product.""I do not like Hitachi NAS because it's an old-school NAS solution, compared to the other, newer-type solutions such as Isilon from Dell or Qumulo.""Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive.""The monitoring tool is not well developed.""Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors.""Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface.""I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."

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"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution.""I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL.""HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper.""We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly.""The hard part with the initial setup was that we were on EMC VNX and trying to get those converted over into the HPE 3PAR, that process took awhile, along with scheduling downtime to get some of the physical stuff migrated over to the new device.""I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today.""We would like to see better support for iSCSI.""Would like to see ​some management functions through a web interface.​"

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This solution is priced well and there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
  • "Costs are based on the features and it is a considerable amount."
  • "Hitachi NAS Platform’s price is high and depends on SCSI disc capacity."
  • "I would rate the solution's pricing six to seven out of ten."
  • "It is a highly-priced product."

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  • "It's very reliable and it was cost competitive with other arrays at the time that we purchased it."
  • "The main issue with 3PAR right now is its cost problem. Right now, there are some other storage cabinets that can do what 3PAR can do. Now, they can do it as well with a more revised budget."
  • "To be more competitive, as customer, we need a more aggressive price that includes all the licenses available."
  • "Nowadays, from a storage point of view, there are so many vendors in the market. So cost is one of the factors that pushed us to go with HPE 3PAR. Cost-wise they're pretty competitive."
  • "As a school, we always have​ low budgets. We are a nonprofit organization. We do not have too much budget, so we care about prices, discounts, and especially about the product quality. The last 16 years, we have been an HPE customer. We are very much happy with HPE products."
  • "It is fairly inexpensive to scale."
  • "Budget wise, 3PAR is a lot of money compared to other solutions, but what is in the 3PAR integration that customers are getting now from the Nimble and InfoSight acquisitions, it is worthwhile."
  • "For the price that we were able to acquire it, we have seen it give us the performance and stability that we require to run our enterprise."

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    Measuring Up: EMC XtremIO and HP 3PAR
    Leading up to EMC World 2015, IT Central Station asked how I would compare EMC XtremIO and HP 3PAR. Until recently, the flash storage conversation in my organization and many others has centered on XtremIO and Pure Storage, the leaders of the all-flash array (AFA) space. To that end, I've written a few posts already. In 2015, though, the HP giant began to rouse and challenge the mainstream status quo with its 3PAR offering. Quantifying 3PAR's platform is different from XtremIO and Pure, though, as it can seem amorphous given the many ways it can be quoted. Are you asking for all flash? 3PAR will give you that and lay claim to the best-of-breed title. Oh, but you want some mass storage akin to archival or virtual tape, too? 3PAR changes jerseys and shouts, "I'm it!" Is it, though? Let's put 3PAR against XtremIO and see how they measure up! Define the Conversation  The hard part about these comparisons and competitive analyses is that we aren't talking about products of the same species or specialization. I struggle to put it properly, but consider it this way. In pre-AFA days (the age of traditional spinners like NetApp FAS3040, EMC CLARiiON or VNX, and even last-gen 3PAR), the contest was like pitting a Toyota Camry against a Nissan Altima. They did most of the same things with minor strengths, weaknesses, and preferences. Talking about XtremIO versus 3PAR 74xx is more of a discussion about construction-grade, heavy-duty cranes versus massive earth movers. They are in the… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Hiachi NAS Platform?
    Top Answer:The product has valuable features for data migration.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hiachi NAS Platform?
    Top Answer:It is a highly-priced product.
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    What needs improvement with Hiachi NAS Platform?
    Top Answer:Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors.
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    What's the difference between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE Primera?
    Top Answer:HPE Primera has many great features but one of the best is that it is very easy to deploy. From an overall perspective, it is reliable, easy to set up, stable, and offers quality block storage. All of… more »
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    What do you like most about HPE 3PAR StoreServ?
    Top Answer:The compression features are good.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE 3PAR StoreServ?
    Top Answer:The tool’s price is higher compared to other products. The solution is 20% more expensive than other storage.
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    Also Known As
    Hitachi NAS
    HPE 3PAR Flash Storage, InServ, Storeserv, 3PAR Flash Storage, HP Enterprise Storage, 3PAR Flash Array, HP 3PAR Flash Storage
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    Hitachi Vantara
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Overview
    Hitachi NAS Platforms help you with file sharing, file server consolidation and application storage for Oracle, Microsoft and virtual environments. Deploy the highest performance per node in the industry. Apply capacity efficiencies that let you actually do more, but with a lot less. Realize significant cost savings for your organization.

    HPE 3PAR StoreServ is an AI-driven storage solution that prevents issues before they occur by learning and adjusting in real time. The solution offers a tier-1 all-flash foundation for mission-critical workloads. HPE 3PAR StoreServ was designed with more than 3M IOPS and consistent sub-ms latency. It aims to transform midrange and enterprise deployments with solutions that scale from a few TBs to more than 20PBs. In addition, the solution is built to modernize data centers and is made to handle unpredictable workloads effortlessly. By implementing HPE 3PAR StoreServ, you gain automated and rapid provisioning, hardware-accelerated deduplication and compression, and a multi-tenant design.

    HPE 3PAR StoreServ Features

    HPE 3PAR StoreServ has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Flexibility: With HPE 3PAR StoreServ, you can easily deploy highly configurable, scale-out storage for multi-tenant workloads.
    • Always-on availability for your data: HPE 3PAR StoreServ includes an always-on resilient storage infrastructure for your hypervisors and applications. In addition, with Peer Persistence, your virtual machines (VMs), hosts, and data can move freely across data centers rather than being constrained by their physical boundaries.
    • Fast, scalable performance: HPE 3PAR StoreServ enables you to accelerate consistent mixed-workload performance and also provides necessary QoS levels that are optimized for your highest priority applications.
    • Performance insights: HPE 3PAR StoreServ helps you gain performance insights in real time, and anticipate as well as prevent issues across the infrastructure stack by utilizing cross-stack analytics.
    • Flash optimized data protection: With tier-1 data services, multi-tenant security, and copy data management, you can avoid downtime.
    • Seamless data mobility: HPE 3PAR StoreServ makes it possible for you to not only experience converged data protection, but also experience seamless data mobility services, at flash speed, from the edge to the cloud.

    HPE 3PAR StoreServ Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing HPE 3PAR StoreServ. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Easy to manage. The web interface to manage the units is a great asset and one that makes managing storage easy.
    • User-friendly GUI
    • Exceptionally fast and well-managed replication

    • Low latency
    • Hybrid storage gives you the ability to assign different roles to different types of storage arrays inside one enclosure
    • Both file-level and block-level replication

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the HPE 3PAR StoreServ solution.

    A SAN Consultant at a tech services company says, “One of the features that I like the most is the data replication element. The reason I like it is due to the fact that it's pretty clean on replicating data over to a second site. The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments. It's easy to make changes without affecting the environment. The solution is very easy to use. The product is very robust and offers very good performance.”

    A Storage Manager at a financial services firm mentions, "There are a lot of screens for easy management where you can change some settings. But after a few years, the important settings were better after an upgrade, and all the vendors have other ways to upgrade their systems."

    A Senior IT Infrastructure & Data Center Operation Engineer at Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) comments, “The adaptive optimization is the biggest feature in 3PAR. 3PAR is very usable with thin volume because it detects zeros while writing. Every time I tell the hypervisor to make the full provisioning, it makes the volume as simple provisioning in 3PAR, not full provisioning.”

    Sample Customers
    Intersect Australia
    Just Energy, Latisys, team AG, DreamWorks, BlueShore Financial, Erasmus MC
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    Computer Software Company13%
    Government12%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Healthcare Company9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Energy/Utilities Company6%
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    Computer Software Company3%
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    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise55%
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    Small Business5%
    Midsize Enterprise84%
    Large Enterprise11%
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    Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 8 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews. Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 6.8, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "Good pricing and works well, but it is old-fashioned and should be replaced with something new". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, IBM FlashSystem and Qumulo, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerStore. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. Hitachi NAS Platform report.

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