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."It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"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."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"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."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"We mostly use it for backup, because we cannot measure anything, and we are afraid to use it for surveillance systems. We were planning to use it for mostly for surveillance systems."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"Speed and reliability:"
"It is easy to use and understand. It is also very stable."
"Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us."
"The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days."
"The predictive analytics, where we're getting notifications prior to a failure has been helpful."
"It's pretty stable and scalable. I think we've only had a couple of issues, three disk outages in six years."
"The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us."
"It is easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy to configure."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"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 the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"Management: At the time, there was no snapshot scheduler, so I had to write XSnapCourier to address it. The sad thing is that even after the newest release, which includes a native scheduler, most customers using XSnapCourier chose to stick with it due to a more feature-rich experience."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"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 believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"Upgrades on them are a bit tricky. For us to do a head swap on one is a full outer joiner storage frame, which is obviously not that easy to do in a production environment."
"Although we experienced malfunctions where a virus was running and it failed."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Sadly, the support from HPE has not been all that great. It is tough to get a tech out or get a response from some of the techs that we have."
"The hard part with the initial setup was that we were on EMC VNX and trying to get those converted over into the HPE 3PAR, that process took awhile, along with scheduling downtime to get some of the physical stuff migrated over to the new device."
"The tool is old."
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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