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 initial setup was extremely simple and straightforward."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"The solution is scalable."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"We have been able to back up our data more frequently now that we have everything on flash. It responds a lot faster, so the IOPs are a lot faster."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"It has helped with more than just serving data, but also with recovery."
"It's pretty stable and scalable. I think we've only had a couple of issues, three disk outages in six years."
"The technical support is good."
"We use for our tier one and two apps, so they can do failover, synchronous replication."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"A company can scale it easily."
"A very flexible solution."
"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."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"It is on the expensive side."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"We have had some challenges in the Arabic implementation and in migration, but for daily work, it's fine."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
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 Dell PowerStore, 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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