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."The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"3PAR is different from other storage solutions because it uses a chunklet when we initiate the storage. Every disk is submitted as a 1 GB chunklet. This chunklet can be RAID 1, 4, 5, or 6. This fabulous feature is very useful for me because I can distribute the RAID for any volume. The adaptive optimization is the biggest feature in 3PAR. 3PAR is very usable with thin volume because it detects zeros while writing. Every time I tell the hypervisor to make the full provisioning, it makes the volume as simple provisioning in 3PAR, not full provisioning. Other vendors take this volume as thick provisioning because of which the capacity is reached quickly. It doesn't happen in 3PAR because it detects zeros. It only writes the data, and it doesn't write zeros. There are two processors in 3PAR: the ASIC processor and the main processor. The ASIC processor detects zero writing and doesn't write it, which is a big feature in 3PAR."
"Since it's being used to support a virtual infrastructure, that gives us access to all of the benefits of a virtual infrastructure. So, instead of spending hours trying to rebuild or to fix a broken server, we can instead wipe it out and throw up a new one and we're up and running again."
"It was the easiest SAN that I have ever set up."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"I do not have to worry about cross systems talking to each other or multiple systems trying to interact with each other. Our entire vCenter infrastructure is one large stack, which is nice."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"The solution has improved our throughput by helping us keep up with the demand and acquisitions that we have been going through."
"I like Tintri's Global Admin feature and the solution's performance. It's incredibly fast storage, which was a significant upgrade for us when we deployed it seven years ago. The Tintri snapshots are brilliant and incredibly reliable."
"Support from our vendor and Tintri are brilliant. They have always answered all of our questions promptly."
"You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance."
"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."
"It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use."
"Web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use."
"Performance, cost, and ease of storage management."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"It needs to improve its price."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"The GUI interface could be improved. I have been having trouble with one issue in particular. If you look at the DC and DR, if there is a communication break and the link went down—so the data is not replicating from DC to DR—there is no way to find out how much data is ready for transmission. Only the size of the data that needs to be transferred after the link comes up. If the firewall link is down, there is no way of seeing how much data is waiting to be transferred. This is a weak point of 3PAR."
"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."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
"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."
"I would like to see the ability to be able to migrate to newer versions of the 3PAR without having to take any of our data offline and be able to upgrade on the fly."
"We need additional enhancements to InfoSight, especially from a VM standpoint. Today, we can see in the Azure VM performance stats in 3PAR, but it is so huge, we can't just drill down on each and every VM and look at its performance."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"More cloud integration."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"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."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"The biggest area for improvement, and there has been some roadmap work in this area already, is cloud integration... Tintri has been investing in this area and I'm sure will continue to, but cloud integration has been the biggest area that we've been crossing our fingers and hoping for quick development around."
"I think with the world soon becoming only SSD, possibly NVMe, and 3D Xpoint. It would make sense for Tintri to drop the hybrid array down the line."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"Tintri's Cloud Connector currently only goes to AWS and IBM Cloud, and we don't use either because we're Microsoft Silver Partners. It would be great to get the Cloud Connector feature with Azure. If it's not already on Tintri's roadmap, that's something I'd like to see."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 12 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 8 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "Reliable with a good user interface and helpful support". 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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