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 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."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It has good stability for our company."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"We've seen great enhancements from the performance point of view. There's good availability, stability, and continuity, but the performance actually has increased by 60 or 70%."
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"The most valuable feature for me is the solution's availability."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"The intelligence around the solution is good."
"It is worry-free. I do not have to sit there and tend it."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"Having moved over from a lefthand, which was seven or eight years old, there's a massive boost in performance. It has definitely improved the speed, the responsiveness, of all our applications."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"I would like hardware capacity additions to be a little more flexible. The upgrade path for the existing XTremIO units requires you to purchase 2 XBricks at a time and they need to be the same capacity as the existing XBricks."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"Management: At the time, there was no snapshot scheduler, so I had to write XSnapCourier to address it. The sad thing is that even after the newest release, which includes a native scheduler, most customers using XSnapCourier chose to stick with it due to a more feature-rich experience."
"It is suitable for medium-sized businesses and data centers with less number of users and less important data. It is not really an enterprise-level solution. It needs more capacity. It is also not really stable. It should be more stable. It should also support any server model. It is really weak in this area."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"As long as they can keep the solution stable, it will be good. Stability is very important to us."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types."
"We do not use Memory-Driven Flash in the old 3PAR. Perhaps we will use it in the new 3PAR. That is part of the reason why we are upgrading."
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.
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