We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"The solution is very reliable."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"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."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"The command line is very extensive, a lot of tools so in comparison to other vendors. It's one of the great things about 3PAR, that you can really drill down on performance, get statistics, really know how your system is internally performing."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"It's a really stable solution. We have no problems with the customer, no negative feedback from them on this."
"Installing FlashSystem is very easy. It takes less than half an hour, and I can handle it all myself."
"Data deduplication is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"They have a virtualization feature and, even if you do not want to buy that feature, you can have it as a trial for two to three months. If you have another brand of storage from another company, you can use this tool to transfer all your data from the old system to the new Storwize system, which really shortens the migration time."
"The most valuable features were the performance of the array, i.e., very low latency and high IOPS. Plus, the management interface is very easy to use."
"I like most of the features. Its speed, performance, and availability are valuable. We are implementing the data reduction technology the most."
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"The solution allows for easy migrations from previous products or vendors via its embedded storage virtualization function."
"The solution is scalable and has varying degrees of scalability."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"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."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"If HPE 3PAR could handle NAS and all things related to NAS, you would not need to have a mixture of different storages, storage boxes, one solution could fit all."
"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."
"As long as they can keep the solution stable, it will be good. Stability is very important to us."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"The price is a little bit high."
"The generic functionality of IBM FlashSystem, IBM always dismisses using file share or sharing protocols inside their storage hardware, and they only focus on the block-level storage."
"The pricing needs to be more competitive."
"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."
"The array level RAID does not seem available."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"IBM could do more marketing and improve brand awareness. I had never heard of this product until a colleague told me about it. FlashSystem could add a few features, but it would probably increase the price. For example, Pure Storage offers instant snapshotting and partitioning. That would be nice to have, but I think the cost would go up."
"IBM FlashSystems is lagging in optimizing storage technologies."
"The solution is not able to replicate data in one-to-many scenario."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while IBM FlashSystem 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 IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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