We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE Alletra based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"Its snapshot capability is the most valuable feature, because replicate our databases from production to nonproduction for development. This allows us to do it very quickly."
"They are using Ansible to automate the provisioning, so that simplifies the day-to-day operations."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use and has good performance."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"I am a system integrator, so we sell a lot of 3PAR storage to our customers. Our business has increased compared to previous days."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"The features which are most valuable are the availability of the system and the management."
"The tool's notable feature is that we don't need to log a case directly with the vendor. The tool has access to all the logs on-premises. This is an on-premises solution. Additionally, we can provision data as thick or thin provisioned. Moreover, it includes data grid duplication and compression features."
"It offers rich features and high speed for transferring data."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"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."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"I would like to be able to deploy and manage 3PAR within OneView Global Dashboard so we do not have to use the interface for 3PAR."
"From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us."
"It's still an older architecture, you've got a lot of physical spinning disks. I would imagine more the memory-based computing is coming."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"The GUI interface could be improved. I have been having trouble with one issue in particular. If you look at the DC and DR, if there is a communication break and the link went down—so the data is not replicating from DC to DR—there is no way to find out how much data is ready for transmission. Only the size of the data that needs to be transferred after the link comes up. If the firewall link is down, there is no way of seeing how much data is waiting to be transferred. This is a weak point of 3PAR."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"It would be better if there were an option to incorporate the NVMe feature alongside other storage tiers. Currently, the system operates on Autotier but can manually peer and mix different types of drives, such as SAS and SATA drives."
"We had some issues while installing it on our servers. It required more resources while cross-checking. So, the initial setup process could be better."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while HPE Alletra is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while HPE Alletra is rated 9.0. 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 HPE Alletra writes "Offers high-intensity IOPS for data operations and delivers extremely low latency for disk operations". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and IBM FlashSystem, whereas HPE Alletra is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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