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."I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"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."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"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."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"XtremIO is very stable."
"The solution has improved our throughput by helping us keep up with the demand and acquisitions that we have been going through."
"The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing)."
"The speed is very good."
"The solution is easy to install."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes."
"The new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"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."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"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."
"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."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"I would like to see more flexibility with the cloud. I've actually just been in a presentation about it, here at HPE Discover 2018, so those features are coming."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"Although we experienced malfunctions where a virus was running and it failed."
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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