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 ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"I am impressed with the product's online upgrades."
"The reliability. We're able to replicate our array to our DR site with minimal work. It's just turn it on and we're ready to go. It reduces risk for the business."
"Multi-tier storage was the primary reason that we bought it. I also love the interface that you use for administering it."
"It allows us to cohost as needed. We are able to put more systems on one data storage system and it is still able to deliver the availability and speed that we need it to deliver."
"We have had it for about two years and had zero problems with it."
"It is easy to set up, easy to use, and user-friendly. It is easier to work with HPE 3PAR than with Hitachi. Its technical support is also good."
"We're hosting virtual infrastructure on the 3PAR storage and it's been very good for that."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"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."
"Web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use."
"You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"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."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"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."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"We are waiting for compression."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has limited flexibility in building replication solutions. There are limitations to the number of IOPS the system can do. It's not bad as it is doing its job. However, for the application, if you need a toolbox, you can build everything concerning periodic replication modes of synchronous or asynchronous three-site, four-site, with supported cascading which requires you to buy an IBM product. It also takes a few hours to one day to upgrade the system and sometimes; it takes more time because, in some HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20000 Storage, you have an eight-node system. If you do an upgrade, you do it node by node and every node might take more than an hour."
"The performance of the solution is not good anymore and the software is different from all the other types and is not compatible. There are more negative things at this moment than positive. This is why we are removing them all from our organization this year."
"The price is a little bit high."
"We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"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."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"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."
"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."
"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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