We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and INFINIDAT InfiniBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"The initial setup was extremely simple and straightforward."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"We're able to get higher-density workloads on the same infrastructure, and we have a smaller physical footprint. The performance is excellent – during our test the bottlenecks are never on the X array, it just keeps picking up the pace to match what you need. The real-time visibility is a differentiator in my opinion."
"I think the storage is very good, the way it stores, the thin provisioning it provides, and the data protection. And it's easy to deploy in any environment. We are using VMware. So for me, it's a right click and it's deployed. We can configure and create LUNS very easily with 3PAR management, and the interface is very user-friendly. Easily understandable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing)."
"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."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"It has helped with more than just serving data, but also with recovery."
"After being properly configured, it has been a very stable product."
"We use for our tier one and two apps, so they can do failover, synchronous replication."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"This product has good performance."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"It is on the expensive side."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"Every time I think of something that needs to improve, they're one step ahead, which I love. The only area I wish to see improve, I believe is coming, is in the FlashBlade product. Blade implementation fell short on a few of the services."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"We need better data deduplication."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"If HPE 3PAR could handle NAS and all things related to NAS, you would not need to have a mixture of different storages, storage boxes, one solution could fit all."
"Would like to see some management functions through a web interface."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"I would like them to improve it so I can do firmware upgrades without downtime."
"...sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
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HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerStore, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Dell XtremIO and VMware vSAN.
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I recommend 3PAR Storages. Are very robust and in years I so only some disk replaced compared with other vendors.
Also 3PAR AFA should have best IOPS and Latency performance.
As Anush said you never know what big fish will eat Infinidat and how will be after!
at this games all the constructor think that they are better, the real test is what the real need is the workload otherwise the workload splits in percentage and then either do POC or if you do not have the time to ask you commitment of performance with precise targets
HPE 3PAR All Flash:
Is a traditional AFA that runs the same 3PAROS, the benefits of which are that, data is broken down into chunklets and striped across for performance and redundancy. If you have disparate 3PAR models across sites, you can still replicate etc. 3PAR has great thin provisioning, replication, metro clustering capabilities. Depending on the Storserv model, you can categorize it as a Tier1 storage.
Infinidat:
While I have personally not worked on Infinidat, I have met them and discussed the product. It belongs in the same layer at VMAX, HDS VSP G1000, IBM DS88xx etc. It is intended for mission critical apps and delivers probably the indusstry’s only 7 9s availability. It has been widely adopted by Fortune 500/100 organizations. My concern with Infinidat would be obvious: support across geographies, they are always a candidate for acquisition etc.
In short, you cant go wrong with either. You would want to look at the apps being run (mission critical etc) and probably beyond everything else the cost. Hope that helps.
It all depends on your workdloads. If it is a virtual workload than Tintri is the best All Flash solution. simplicity, visibiltiy, destiny, performance, Etc.
3PAR
Full disclosure, we can sell the HPE 3PAR Flash and I haven’t run up against INFINIDAT, which would make me be more hesitant to sell that unit! We use 3PAR in our Cloud Storage and it is a very robust and secure SAN. Let me check with one of our SAN SE’s to see if I can get anymore clarification for you, but if the person asking isn’t another VAR/MSP, we can definitely help them with the HPE 3PAR storage.
Yes, I agree
Numi is quite correct 3PAR AFA and Infinidat are two very different products, the 3PAR aimed at workloads that require low latency and Infinidat at more general workloads like OLTP, backup, etc.
Without know what sort of workloads you are trying to support its hard to make a recommendation, however one word of caution for the 3PAR's is due to their use of ASIC's, support for large blocksizes (128GB and above) is less than stellar and wouldn't recommend them.