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."We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"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 management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers."
"The tech support is great. If we have a problem, we literally will have boots on the ground with senior sales people, as well as the people to fix the problem, to help make sure we are taken care of."
"It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment."
"You can scale it out almost indefinitely."
"When we bought it, the big sell for us was what they called "wide striping", how they striped the data and could get performance on a cheaper disk. Nowadays, the newer models that are out, which we are going to in the next couple of years, the most valuable feature is mainly being able to achieve such high IOPS in such a small chassis."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated."
"The deduplication functionality is great. We have seen a lot of benefits in the deduplication ratio. So, it has proven that it is a good cost savings."
"We never had a blackout and we have never been offline."
"You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance."
"A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"It needs to improve its price."
"The product is quite expensive."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
"We would like to see the ability to not only be integrated with hybrid IT, but on-prem."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"We are seeing that there are some enhancements which are required in the SSMC console. There are some features that we do not see in the dashboard."
"Its price is a bit high for adding another tree."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"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."
"Technical support is an area where we had several issues, and it was hard to get some support in a specific case we had. I'm not very satisfied with them."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"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."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"The Tintri OS and GlobalCenter software do a great job of showing you troubled VMs, however it still could be a bit more helpful in diagnosing the issues."
"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 14th 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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