We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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 simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"It is a stable solution."
"Has a great mapping feature."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"The solution's technical support is excellent. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"In the deployment of virtual servers, I can have a new VM up and running in 15 minutes, run the patches, then done. I routinely fire up base images that I have for my servers: Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. I routinely fire those base images up and do all the updates, then prep them again for cloning. With 3PAR, we definitely have the performance to do that. Those images I do keep on SSD just to have that performance to deploy a new VM."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"The deduplication is pretty impressive because it will shrink. We also do some clones in addition to the snapshots, where we can have multiple clones. These reduce the actual written storage by as much as 50 percent."
"It's pretty stable and scalable. I think we've only had a couple of issues, three disk outages in six years."
"The solution offers good stability."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"The most valuable feature of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is its storage capabilities."
"Tech support is great, and that is for any of their team who has ever worked with us. They are willing and committed to making sure the customer is treated the way we need to be."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"The solution only does thin provisioning."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"When it comes to Dell PowerStore, I would like to see more integration and more security features included. It's unfortunate that the solution does not feature Flash trace."
"I would like to see a Snapshot feature. Currently, it is unable to occupy the capacity."
"Reporting is an area that could be improved. It's very simplistic sometimes, and some of the very technical guys on my team want to see more of the details and be able to massage the report a little bit better."
"We would consider this solution if the pricing is competitive with other options, as it offers a very good solution. However, the current price is slightly higher than the competition."
"The price is on the higher side."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"The new feature sets, like deduplication and compression, are complex to work with. I hope when I view the roadmap that they will be less complex."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types."
"File Persona can be better. I don't use File Persona because it has many problems with my environment. The antivirus that it has is not compatible with File Persona, and that's a big issue with File Persona. 3PAR is not as good as Dell when making a file in the storage. 3PAR for a block is very good, but when comparing row capacity, I get 14% capacity with 3PAR, but with Dell, I get 60% capacity."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"We do not use Memory-Driven Flash in the old 3PAR. Perhaps we will use it in the new 3PAR. That is part of the reason why we are upgrading."
"From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". 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 PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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