We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."The most valuable feature is the no-forklift upgrade. While the thing is running, I can change out the controllers one at a time and keep the customer up and running. I can add shelves and storage and SSD drives or spinning drives to the system, while it's running. I can bring all that in and rebalance the load across the new disks or, if we take disks away, rebalance the load across what's remaining, and it just works."
"The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"The performance benefits weren't surprising, we expected that. What we didn't expect were the densification benefits that we got out of going all-flash. We're able to put more applications on the arrays because of how all-flash performs. The way some of the application profiles have responded to all-flash has been really pleasing."
"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."
"This solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the speed for the end-user."
"It has improved uptime, as well as speed to delivery."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"We have been able to scale faster and get our applications out in much less time. We don't need to worry about the platform's ability to manage the workload, so we are pretty happy."
"We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers."
"We're using the all-flash arrays and, with the deduplication and compression, it just really fits our virtualization environment very well."
"I like that 3PAR can remake the disk online. That's one of the best features because when we first started, that was the best. The team provisioning feature was also a good one. Those features are the best for me, provisioning and online optimization, and the tier you can have for storage."
"We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"VMAX3 is our main system for storage. All our systems and all our virtualizations are connected to it. In terms of expanding it, we are replacing it with a new system, the PowerMax 2000. So our current VMAX3 platform will be decommissioned soon. We are switching to PowerMax 2000 because we are looking for improved performance. We see it as the best fit for our requirements in terms of the performance and the overall cost."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"One option I would like to see is, when you're up on the view-screen, to be able to incorporate getting to what HPE call the iLO, the Integrated Lights-Out. To be able to get that instead of having to go back and trying to find IP addresses and re-institute those would be good. It would be good to be able to that put on the initial splash screen."
"I would like to improve the processing ability."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"This solution could be improved if overall performance was improved and operated with a higher speed and supported a higher volume of RAM."
"Overall, I'd like to see more synergy between Dell EMC's higher-tier platforms and their mid-tier platforms. What I have said, constantly, to my partners at Dell EMC is that the clear articulation of the path is really important to us. In that vein, what I'd also like to see is, with the migration strategy that's built into this product, a lot more attention paid to Dell's - in particular - legacy platforms and how we get from some of our legacy EMC platforms onto this platform with a straight-through migration and scaling strategy, not host-based migrations and not piecemeal... Dell EMC would do well to focus more on my ability to skip a generation, rather than having me take individual hops because I can't greenfield my way into a software-defined data center fast enough. This journey of multiple hops is not helpful."
"It's not very efficient anymore. There are better products out there."
"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."
"Technical support should respond more quickly because the turnaround time is very high."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"Extending is not a problem, scalability is okay. But once you buy additional box of disks, you have to wait for HPE to contact you with their plan for implementation, for connecting, and it can take several weeks. So, you have the box and you have to wait for several weeks to actually implement it."
"Sometimes the required upgrades have been a little bit involved: "You have to do this before you do this," and I want them to explain to me why. It's more work than it should be."
"The new feature sets, like deduplication and compression, are complex to work with. I hope when I view the roadmap that they will be less complex."
"The tool is old."
"The solution could be improved in regard to space reclamation by adding automation."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction."
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