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 speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"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's just very easy for general block storage."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"Thin storage allocation"
"The performance is good, which is important."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"The command line is very extensive, a lot of tools so in comparison to other vendors. It's one of the great things about 3PAR, that you can really drill down on performance, get statistics, really know how your system is internally performing."
"It all works in concert using Recovery Manager Central (RMC). HPE coordinates it all, so it is more of a solution instead of products trying to do things together."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use and has good performance."
"I am impressed with the product's online upgrades."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"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 them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"I would like hardware capacity additions to be a little more flexible. The upgrade path for the existing XTremIO units requires you to purchase 2 XBricks at a time and they need to be the same capacity as the existing XBricks."
"We've encountered challenges in integrating other products with Dell Xtremio, as it tends to be more vendor-locked. This means we can't easily explore other solutions that might work alongside Dell."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"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."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"We are waiting for compression."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
"The price is a little bit high."
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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