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 also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"We like the speed. It's very low latency. In virtualization, you can mask lots of problems, and even in code you can mask lots of problems, with low latency. It's just pure speed and low latency."
"The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is an enterprise storage that is mainly deployed in enterprise scenarios like banking and insurance."
"The stability is what we consider to be the best feature it provides. The stability of this solution is what conquers us, every day."
"We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data."
"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."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"This solution has allowed for massive performance acceleration of all workloads and massively increased availability (with peer persistence/transparent failover feature)."
"The ease of management is its most valuable feature. It is so much easier to manage storage on a 3PAR array than anything that we have had before."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge."
"It is a set and forget environment with a very good tooling to view performance and delivers the IOPS we need for our VDI environment."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"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 need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"The file functionality could be better."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"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 only drawback on it is that tech support seems really busy. We get a critical notification when an important patch comes out, but sometimes it's a month before we can get this critical piece on because they just don't have time on their schedules to do it sooner."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"With 3PAR, there is remote copy software which isn't very good."
"This solution is becoming dated."
"The solution is already good but the brand name is not so popular here."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"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 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."
"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 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."
"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."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
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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