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."As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"The program is very stable."
"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."
"It has allowed us to set up a fully functioning disaster recovery site with replication, which we have been able to configure between our 3PAR systems."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"It has helped with more than just serving data, but also with recovery."
"We have our backups set up to replicate between two sites, then we also have our storage set up to replicate between two sites."
"It has helped a lot for times when our customers do DR testing. Instead of having to spin down and spin up, I can do it live and seamless. I do not have to schedule downtime with an organization."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"The stability is what we consider to be the best feature it provides. The stability of this solution is what conquers us, every day."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"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."
"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."
"The price should be lower."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"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 product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"It needs a way to determine the deduplication of each LUN and what the impact would be if we were to move data from one LUN to another."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"I need flexibility for interoperability across multiple platforms, not just HPE."
"I would like to see a little bit more integration from a cloud perspective. In this way, I would have some more flexibility to do more with data, how to store it, and where I have it."
"We need longer names for our volumes. Now it's only 28 characters. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"The performance of the solution is not good anymore and the software is different from all the other types and is not compatible. There are more negative things at this moment than positive. This is why we are removing them all from our organization this year."
"We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us."
"I would like to see a faster Ethernet connection. Right now, it is 10G. If they could do multiple hundred gigs to speed up the transfer from the array to the servers, that would be good. We are trying to get away from Fibre Channel."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 298 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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