We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"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."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The intelligence around the solution is good."
"The most valuable feature of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is its online upgrades."
"Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use and has good performance."
"The features which are most valuable are the availability of the system and the management."
"You can scale it out almost indefinitely."
"The overall quality of the product is fantastic. Advanced Optimization is one of the best features I never thought I needed until I actually used it and saw it in action."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"From my point of view, the configuration that I can sell is restricted to the EMC best practices. It is hard to make a mistake in a solution. It means the configuration has good performance and scalability options."
"Integration with VMware"
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"The most valuable feature is the tight VMware integration, due to the migration from bare metal to virtualized environments and then on to the cloud."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us."
"Feature-wise, with the InfoSight additions, there is a lot of the stuff missing in the intelligent interface. As they grow and push, a lot of it will not tie into Hyper-V."
"I want artificial intelligence. I don't want anybody from my team to touch it anymore. I want the AI to do everything."
"I would like to see a faster Ethernet connection. Right now, it is 10G. If they could do multiple hundred gigs to speed up the transfer from the array to the servers, that would be good. We are trying to get away from Fibre Channel."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"VNX can improve by offering flexible upgrade options. It's not possible to add a single HDD to a current array and there are fixed rules to make upgrades."
"Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing."
"Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones."
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HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 3rd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 299 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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