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 is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"Speed and reliability:"
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"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."
"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."
"Thin storage allocation"
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses."
"Being able to provision drives on demand, as opposed to populating a whole stack of drives and not using them. In the latter scenario, you are locking your money in, you don't get a return on investment. On the fly, you can build up your storage as needed, so that's a very good feature."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"The Call Home feature is really a great feature, so I do not need to monitor the 3PAR. The 3PAR team is monitoring it and letting me know if there are any problems."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"The file functionality could be better."
"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."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"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."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"The onsite techs have caused outages."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"We have issues with scalability because 3PAR has limited storage capacity, so we have to invest more after a while."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
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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