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."Performance is the most valuable feature."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"It simplifies storage."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"It is great for applications like Microsoft Exchange, ERP, SQL and VDI; basically saved the VDI buy-in from users, as now performance was seamless in comparison to a physical PC."
"The program is very stable."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"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."
"It's advantageous in terms of the cost, in terms of the performance, and taking up less space."
"Its snapshot capability is the most valuable feature, because replicate our databases from production to nonproduction for development. This allows us to do it very quickly."
"If you can handle the IOPS, throughput is a natural byproduct. Usually, IOPS is where you are capped. HPE has done a great job in making sure that our IOP-intensive EMRs stay up and running. We have really good performance on them."
"We have been able to back up our data more frequently now that we have everything on flash. It responds a lot faster, so the IOPs are a lot faster."
"The solution is quite stable and scalable."
"I like the integration with VMware and the provisioning. We also use data compression but not for any of the critical applications."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"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."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"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."
"The onsite techs have caused outages."
"HPE could improve by making an old flash system in order to compete with the current market. For the solution to be more competitive in the mid-range market they could increase the performance."
"The management console could use some work. All the functionality is there, of course, but it can be hard to find some features or do certain tasks."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
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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