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."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."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"Very efficient storage"
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"Linear performance – The XtremIO wasn’t the fastest in all tests against other all flash arrays, but even with a massive workload, the response time and user experience were absolutely predictable with no sharp drop-offs."
"The program is very stable."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"It all works in concert using Recovery Manager Central (RMC). HPE coordinates it all, so it is more of a solution instead of products trying to do things together."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario."
"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."
"I like the integration with VMware and the provisioning. We also use data compression but not for any of the critical applications."
"It was straightforward, simple, and easy to set up, along with the OneView tools, for managing both compute and storage."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use and has good performance."
"It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"In some cases where we don’t need the flexibility of the virtualization layer, we could free up resources on the VPLEX by using the storage replication."
"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."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"I would like an easier user interface and setup to help with deployment. There were many areas of the setup where I was like, “Why don't we do it this way?” Therefore, some of the things in the user interface could have been more refined, so you don't have to click in 5000 different places to accomplish one goal. Less clicks means more efficiency."
"It's still an older architecture, you've got a lot of physical spinning disks. I would imagine more the memory-based computing is coming."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ could have better integration into the cloud and converged infrastructure."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"They should add AI-enabled dashboards to the solution."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th 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, NetApp AFF and IBM FlashSystem, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell XtremIO vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
See our list of best All-Flash Storage vendors.
We monitor all All-Flash Storage reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.