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."Very efficient storage"
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The performance is very good."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"It's advantageous in terms of the cost, in terms of the performance, and taking up less space."
"The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment."
"It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick."
"It has helped with more than just serving data, but also with recovery."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use, fully featured and has a great graphical user interface."
"The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance."
"Among the most valuable features are its granular replication, the ability to define asynchronous or synchronous replication, which gives us very definable RTOs and RPOs around that type of service, and granular quality-of-service configuration, which allows for cases where you've got multiple customers on a single Tintri, but you want to be able to offer strong quality-of-service metrics and KPIs."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"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."
"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."
"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"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 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."
"Sometimes the required upgrades have been a little bit involved: "You have to do this before you do this," and I want them to explain to me why. It's more work than it should be."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
"The interface to manage it could be improved. I was looking at OneView. Something basic like that should be available with the 3PAR. OneView has all the bells and whistles, all the features, but I think something basic and similar to that should be come with the 3PAR, at least for monitoring managing it."
"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."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"Their current replication is really just enough to "check the box" that they do replication. We'll probably implement Actifio, Zerto or EMC RecoverPoint for VMs for more critical data replication."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"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."
"The solution is already good but the brand name is not so popular here."
"I would like it to have the ability to store data other than virtual machines. At the moment, you can only connect VMs to it, and that’s a bit disappointing."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
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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