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."Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"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."
"Speed and reliability:"
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"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."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The performance has been fantastic. It has not had many issues whatsoever, and what issues they do have, the support picks up on it quickly. They send us tickets saying that they are doing work without us even having to engage them."
"It is easy to set up, easy to use, and user-friendly. It is easier to work with HPE 3PAR than with Hitachi. Its technical support is also good."
"The speed is very good."
"We're hosting virtual infrastructure on the 3PAR storage and it's been very good for that."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"I like that 3PAR can remake the disk online. That's one of the best features because when we first started, that was the best. The team provisioning feature was also a good one. Those features are the best for me, provisioning and online optimization, and the tier you can have for storage."
"HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good."
"The ease of management is its most valuable feature. It is so much easier to manage storage on a 3PAR array than anything that we have had before."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"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."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"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."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"Generally, the management of the multiple systems that we have is really the only problem, always having to go to all these separate tools to manage everything."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"Integration with some cloud services would be nice... We would like to be able to provision from the 3PAR and decide whether or not we are going to provision onsite or the cloud."
"Its price is a bit high for adding another tree."
"I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"The initial setup was easy. However, we get stuck on preconditions. We were not aware of some of the preconditions."
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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