We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and HPE 3PAR StoreServ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The scalability is good."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"Thin storage allocation"
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"It is easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy to configure."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"Proactive support. Before we notice that there's a problem in the storage, or any part, any hard disk, they already notify us, and within four hours, the product is delivered. Within the next hour after product delivery, the engineer is available to support me."
"Previously, we were using EVA from HPE. When we moved to 3PAR, we noticed a reduction in footprint, reduced by more than 30%. We use the Adaptive Optimization, giving us a reduction in cost and with better performance."
"The technical support is good."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"We've encountered challenges in integrating other products with Dell Xtremio, as it tends to be more vendor-locked. This means we can't easily explore other solutions that might work alongside Dell."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"It needs a way to determine the deduplication of each LUN and what the impact would be if we were to move data from one LUN to another."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"We have had a few issues with it. We had our virtual environment lock up a few times on storage-based things. We think we have it sorted out, but maybe it came down to a configuration issue on it."
"HPE could improve by raising awareness when a new product is launched. They must think of ways to better serve and engage with their enterprise customers. HPE is selling enterprise products and mission-critical support."
"The tool needs improvement in the utilization report at the granular level."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"We have issues with scalability because 3PAR has limited storage capacity, so we have to invest more after a while."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 26th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". 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". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell XtremIO vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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