We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Tintri VMstore 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."There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"It has good stability for our company."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"This product is stable, aside from the performance problems we had."
"If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us."
"It has helped a lot for times when our customers do DR testing. Instead of having to spin down and spin up, I can do it live and seamless. I do not have to schedule downtime with an organization."
"The technical support has been fantastic."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"I am impressed with the product's online upgrades."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"We love the real-time replication, ease of use when connecting our servers to the storage, and the level of redundancy inside the box... It's also simple software and integrates well with VMware so we get a lot of information about all of the VMs, how they're performing individually, and about network latency. That's very helpful when you're troubleshooting a slowdown."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"The most valuable feature is the VM management."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"Support from our vendor and Tintri are brilliant. They have always answered all of our questions promptly."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"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."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"Its price is a bit high for adding another tree."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"I want artificial intelligence. I don't want anybody from my team to touch it anymore. I want the AI to do everything."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"We have issues with scalability because 3PAR has limited storage capacity, so we have to invest more after a while."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"It's still an older architecture, you've got a lot of physical spinning disks. I would imagine more the memory-based computing is coming."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
"More cloud integration."
"Speed of our VDI machines. We have a very high log in and log out ratio and machines are being refreshed instantly so we have a constant boot storm on our storage."
"I would like to be able to add more storage capacity to our 2 units down the road with out buying an additional seprate array."
"What I feel would be nice, in terms of a wishlist, is scalability. Rather than replacing the whole appliance, I would like to be able to just add another unit and scale it like that."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"On the software side, I suggest adding integration with backups software like CommVault Simpana or Veeam where these products can integrate with the array and trigger things like snapshots for backup, etc."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. 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 Tintri VMstore writes "We were able to push a button—it really is that simple—and flip primary and secondary storage locations". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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