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."It worked flawlessly."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"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 guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Whatever failures you have, there is no single point of failure. So, any failure, you get an alert, you have time, you plan the fix, the replacement, and so on. So your operations are intact."
"It has allowed us to set up a fully functioning disaster recovery site with replication, which we have been able to configure between our 3PAR systems."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance"
"Tech support is great, and that is for any of their team who has ever worked with us. They are willing and committed to making sure the customer is treated the way we need to be."
"The solution has increased our performance by about 40 percent."
"Stability is awesome. Its performance has been steady and it stays up."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has a good interface, it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"If you are looking at flash storage solutions, XtremIO doesn't offer any unique features. Most of my customers are migrating their workload from XtremIO to other formats because of this."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"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 the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"I give it an eight because of the support, that I can't get support in my country. This is the worst part. Support cannot be sold until we are out of the sanctions."
"Needs more flexibility and expansion, and also relocation, a cloud solution."
"I'd really it to be able to interact with older 3PAR storage, and possibly even non-HPE. I would like to be able to pull stuff off of old things and bring it up to the standard that has been set, simply, quickly, and efficiently. That would be a really nice feature. Right now it is a big pain. It seems to work but we tend to get some latency behind."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"In the next release, I would like them to make it a little easier to find where everything is in the new console. It now has the OneView look and sometimes I don't think the OneView look is enough. It's too different from the original console that was a separate system."
"The hard part with the initial setup was that we were on EMC VNX and trying to get those converted over into the HPE 3PAR, that process took awhile, along with scheduling downtime to get some of the physical stuff migrated over to the new device."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"Generally, the management of the multiple systems that we have is really the only problem, always having to go to all these separate tools to manage everything."
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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