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."I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"Support has been helpful."
"The solution is very reliable."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"The performance has been fantastic. It has not had many issues whatsoever, and what issues they do have, the support picks up on it quickly. They send us tickets saying that they are doing work without us even having to engage them."
"We use for our tier one and two apps, so they can do failover, synchronous replication."
"If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us."
"The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"They are using Ansible to automate the provisioning, so that simplifies the day-to-day operations."
"Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario."
"With the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, we can grow as required."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."
"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've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance."
"Its performance is amazing. Since I have put Tintri in, I haven't had a complaint from anybody about slowness. On top of that, there is block-level cloning and the ability to spin up VMs."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"Automation could be simplified."
"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."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"Extending is not a problem, scalability is okay. But once you buy additional box of disks, you have to wait for HPE to contact you with their plan for implementation, for connecting, and it can take several weeks. So, you have the box and you have to wait for several weeks to actually implement it."
"...sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected."
"We are waiting for compression."
"There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"This solution is becoming dated."
"More cloud integration."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"The solution is already good but the brand name is not so popular here."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"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."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"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."
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 IBM FlashSystem, 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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