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 product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"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."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"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."
"It is great for applications like Microsoft Exchange, ERP, SQL and VDI; basically saved the VDI buy-in from users, as now performance was seamless in comparison to a physical PC."
"We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers."
"Scalability is incredible. We have a single server cabinet today, but we can grow it to as many cabinets as we need."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The compression features are good."
"We never had a blackout and we have never been offline."
"The technical support is good."
"Technical support for both 3PAR and Dell EMC in my country, Iran, is very difficult because we are under sanctions."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"The price could be better."
"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."
"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."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"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."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. There were a lot of different things that had to happen which was the reason why they had to send out the HPE engineers to help us."
"As long as they can keep the solution stable, it will be good. Stability is very important to us."
"In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users."
"I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"Here in Algeria, we are facing a lot of trouble finding partners and getting support from HPE. There should be better support here in our country."
"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."
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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