We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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."They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"I like the performance of the PowerStore. When you talk about PowerStore, it's mainly about flash systems and high-end IOPS. The 1000T is a midsize box, in terms of the way the vendor positions it, but it is more than enough for our needs."
"PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"When compared to Pure Storage, Dell PowerStore's cost was quite attractive."
"It is a stable solution."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"It provides a big benefit when upgrading a new VMware environment. For example, in a big environment with 10 to 30 ESXs, you can take everything and put that into PowerStore. So, it is cost-effective, which is very important and has been massive for us. You reduce almost 80% from the hardware and work directly from PowerStore. Building hardware, especially in a big VMware environment, is a big issue for my organization."
"We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding."
"The ease of management is its most valuable feature. It is so much easier to manage storage on a 3PAR array than anything that we have had before."
"The deduplication is pretty impressive because it will shrink. We also do some clones in addition to the snapshots, where we can have multiple clones. These reduce the actual written storage by as much as 50 percent."
"We can quickly see performance per CPG and per LUN. You can drill right down to see actual performance to the virtual volumes themselves. That's really good."
"Proactive support. Before we notice that there's a problem in the storage, or any part, any hard disk, they already notify us, and within four hours, the product is delivered. Within the next hour after product delivery, the engineer is available to support me."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"This solution has allowed for massive performance acceleration of all workloads and massively increased availability (with peer persistence/transparent failover feature)."
"We use a virtual domain in 3PAR and we can create individual pools where clients are able to manage their own resources, instead of we, as storage admin, getting involved in that."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"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."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"There are certain shortcomings with the technical support team of Dell PowerStore, where improvements are required."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"You cannot delegate permissions."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"The pricing could be lower. It is very expensive."
"We are happy with the service in general. The only thing would be the price of the platform."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"The interface to manage it could be improved. I was looking at OneView. Something basic like that should be available with the 3PAR. OneView has all the bells and whistles, all the features, but I think something basic and similar to that should be come with the 3PAR, at least for monitoring managing it."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"A lot of tasks, you have to manually set up. They need to already have them set up and working. Then, you can just go in and tweak them if you need to."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"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."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". 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 PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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