We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and VMware vSAN 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 duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The latency is good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"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."
"It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."
"It is easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy to configure."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"The solution is easy to use and very stable."
"It is easy to use and understand. It is also very stable."
"With the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, we can grow as required."
"The stability is what we consider to be the best feature it provides. The stability of this solution is what conquers us, every day."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"The ability to have a disaster recovery option for our end-users by being able to use VDI and the vSANs, and the ability to do replication across multiple data centers, are valuable to us."
"The product’s most valuable features are performance and expandability."
"This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"Being able to deploy multiple applications with virtual servers is the most valuable for us. The capacity of the system is quite constant so it's got some of the good features."
"The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability."
"Technical support is good."
"The performance of VMware vSAN is very good."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"The software layer has to improve."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"We need better data deduplication."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"The new feature sets, like deduplication and compression, are complex to work with. I hope when I view the roadmap that they will be less complex."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"With 3PAR, there is remote copy software which isn't very good."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"This product has come to the end of its lifecycle."
"Needs more flexibility and expansion, and also relocation, a cloud solution."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
"This is quite an expensive solution."
"One of the things that we've had challenges with are when we place hosts into maintenance mode. Sometimes doing so triggers large re-sync processes which can be time-consuming and which have, at times, pushed the capacity to the threshold. I definitely think making some changes in that area would provide some big improvements."
"Dedupe in non flash drives can be improved."
"I would have liked it to have been more scalable. It's scalable but not as much as, for example, the ScaleIO systems were or the Kaminario"
"There's already a concern with VMware with ransomware and security issues. VMware could focus on improving security."
"The product's complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerScale (Isilon), whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex.
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