We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and HPE 3PAR StoreServ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"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."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"I have a lot of applications that need higher IOPS, and 3PAR achieves this operation normally without any issues for the management."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"The features which are most valuable are the availability of the system and the management."
"Stability is awesome. Its performance has been steady and it stays up."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has a good interface, it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"We use all the features, but some of the most valuable are the replication, priority optimization, provisioning, and deduplication. There are a lot of good features in this product."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"If you are looking at flash storage solutions, XtremIO doesn't offer any unique features. Most of my customers are migrating their workload from XtremIO to other formats because of this."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"I would like to be able to deploy and manage 3PAR within OneView Global Dashboard so we do not have to use the interface for 3PAR."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"The tool has low storage and low performance. This can be solved by adding more disco to the solution. The product’s pricing is also suited for enterprise businesses rather than smaller ones.I would like to see better performance, UI, and compatibility with other products in future releases."
"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."
"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."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and IBM FlashSystem, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell XtremIO vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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