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 of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"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."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"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."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is an enterprise storage that is mainly deployed in enterprise scenarios like banking and insurance."
"It was the easiest SAN that I have ever set up."
"There are a lot of screens for easy management where you can change some settings. But after a few years, the important settings were better after an upgrade, and all the vendors have other ways to upgrade their systems."
"The technical support is very good."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"Our applications are now at least two to four times faster."
"It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"The solution is not cheap."
"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."
"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."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"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."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"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."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"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 management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Feature-wise, with the InfoSight additions, there is a lot of the stuff missing in the intelligent interface. As they grow and push, a lot of it will not tie into Hyper-V."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"The tool has low storage and low performance. This can be solved by adding more disco to the solution. The product’s pricing is also suited for enterprise businesses rather than smaller ones.I would like to see better performance, UI, and compatibility with other products in future releases."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. There were a lot of different things that had to happen which was the reason why they had to send out the HPE engineers to help us."
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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