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's just very easy for general block storage."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"It's actually very stable"
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"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 most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"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."
"I like that 3PAR can remake the disk online. That's one of the best features because when we first started, that was the best. The team provisioning feature was also a good one. Those features are the best for me, provisioning and online optimization, and the tier you can have for storage."
"The command line is very extensive, a lot of tools so in comparison to other vendors. It's one of the great things about 3PAR, that you can really drill down on performance, get statistics, really know how your system is internally performing."
"It is easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy to configure."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use and has good performance."
"It has been very stable. We've had very minor issues, but I've loved how HPE is proactive on letting us know. Usually, they let us know before we notice it ourselves and they already have a solution for us. It has been great that way."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"We went to an Active-Active data center, set it up to where both data centers are separate, but they act as one. We can have workloads at either side at any given time, and it is all based on the Peer Persistence architecture."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"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."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"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."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"It is very expensive to scale. You have to buy an additional system to extend from one disc, for instance. It is scalable, but extremely expensive to do so."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"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."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"The management console could use some work. All the functionality is there, of course, but it can be hard to find some features or do certain tasks."
"We have had some challenges in the Arabic implementation and in migration, but for daily work, it's fine."
"I need flexibility for interoperability across multiple platforms, not just HPE."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"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."
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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