We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE StoreVirtual 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."The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"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."
"It simplifies storage."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"The solution is easy to install."
"It has been very stable. We've had very minor issues, but I've loved how HPE is proactive on letting us know. Usually, they let us know before we notice it ourselves and they already have a solution for us. It has been great that way."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data."
"The Call Home feature is really a great feature, so I do not need to monitor the 3PAR. The 3PAR team is monitoring it and letting me know if there are any problems."
"There's a lot of good features. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is similar to Dell EMC. It is a high-speed system with automatic failover/failback, integrated with Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware. These are the main reason for choosing HPE 3PAR StoreServ in Denmark. We have a very good consulting service together with the product."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"The solution is very stable."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"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 solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"We are waiting for compression."
"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."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
"HPE could improve by making an old flash system in order to compete with the current market. For the solution to be more competitive in the mid-range market they could increase the performance."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"User interface could be improved."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"It is a costly solution."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. 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 StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and IBM FlashSystem, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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