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 most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"Very efficient storage"
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"We mostly use it for backup, because we cannot measure anything, and we are afraid to use it for surveillance systems. We were planning to use it for mostly for surveillance systems."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The solution fetches quick responses in milliseconds which can be within 40-50 milliseconds."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"The new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly."
"It is easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy to configure."
"The solution is easy to use and very stable."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The price should be lower."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"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 GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"The interface could be improved to match the system."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"We are waiting for compression."
"Needs more flexibility and expansion, and also relocation, a cloud solution."
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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