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.
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"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."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"The compression features are good."
"With the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, we can grow as required."
"We have had it for about two years and had zero problems with it."
"I think the storage is very good, the way it stores, the thin provisioning it provides, and the data protection. And it's easy to deploy in any environment. We are using VMware. So for me, it's a right click and it's deployed. We can configure and create LUNS very easily with 3PAR management, and the interface is very user-friendly. Easily understandable."
"In the deployment of virtual servers, I can have a new VM up and running in 15 minutes, run the patches, then done. I routinely fire up base images that I have for my servers: Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. I routinely fire those base images up and do all the updates, then prep them again for cloning. With 3PAR, we definitely have the performance to do that. Those images I do keep on SSD just to have that performance to deploy a new VM."
"The most valuable feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"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."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"The solution is not cheap."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"The cloud-based monitoring Infosight would be better if users are automatically enrolled in the cloud/group based on the configuration or information gathered or uploaded on the internet."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"HPE could improve by raising awareness when a new product is launched. They must think of ways to better serve and engage with their enterprise customers. HPE is selling enterprise products and mission-critical support."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"Generally, the management of the multiple systems that we have is really the only problem, always having to go to all these separate tools to manage everything."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities."
"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."
"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."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"More cloud integration."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"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."
"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."
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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