We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"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."
"We deployed 3PAR in the national and international markets. It's not bad, the solution."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"The solution has improved our throughput by helping us keep up with the demand and acquisitions that we have been going through."
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"Integration with VMware"
"From my point of view, the configuration that I can sell is restricted to the EMC best practices. It is hard to make a mistake in a solution. It means the configuration has good performance and scalability options."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"Good performance for VM environments"
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"I would like an easier user interface and setup to help with deployment. There were many areas of the setup where I was like, “Why don't we do it this way?” Therefore, some of the things in the user interface could have been more refined, so you don't have to click in 5000 different places to accomplish one goal. Less clicks means more efficiency."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"VNX can improve by offering flexible upgrade options. It's not possible to add a single HDD to a current array and there are fixed rules to make upgrades."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"There is an easy replication process between distinct data centers via VPLEX and/or RPA. But I hope in the future that EMC/Dell could replicate this with other types of storage."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing."
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HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 3rd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 299 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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