We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series 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 management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"It has been one of the most stable products in our data center."
"The most valuable feature is the speed for the end-user."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"The flexibility of this solution has been valuable for our business."
"The interface is easy to use which makes the product user-friendly."
"They have a feature called Live Migrate; it's been very, very useful."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"3PAR is different from other storage solutions because it uses a chunklet when we initiate the storage. Every disk is submitted as a 1 GB chunklet. This chunklet can be RAID 1, 4, 5, or 6. This fabulous feature is very useful for me because I can distribute the RAID for any volume. The adaptive optimization is the biggest feature in 3PAR. 3PAR is very usable with thin volume because it detects zeros while writing. Every time I tell the hypervisor to make the full provisioning, it makes the volume as simple provisioning in 3PAR, not full provisioning. Other vendors take this volume as thick provisioning because of which the capacity is reached quickly. It doesn't happen in 3PAR because it detects zeros. It only writes the data, and it doesn't write zeros. There are two processors in 3PAR: the ASIC processor and the main processor. The ASIC processor detects zero writing and doesn't write it, which is a big feature in 3PAR."
"The InfoSight feature helps us with troubleshooting problems in our environment."
"You can have SSD drives, fast disk drives, and slower drives, redundancy between drives, and hot-swappable drives on the SSDs, the faster hard drives, and the slower drives."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"It has helped a lot for times when our customers do DR testing. Instead of having to spin down and spin up, I can do it live and seamless. I do not have to schedule downtime with an organization."
"Valuable features include the intuitiveness of the SAN itself, a lot of the built-in logic and functionality, the tiering that it uses to determine what type of disk is best for the various types of workloads, and the automation that is built in. It's also easy to manage."
"The deduplication functionality is great. We have seen a lot of benefits in the deduplication ratio. So, it has proven that it is a good cost savings."
"It is easy to use and understand. It is also very stable."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"Licensing, especially on the storage line, could use some simplification. It's not terrible, but, for example, with the Isilon series, they've gone to completely a la carte. A la carte is very difficult to traverse, as to what you need. It would be more beneficial, at least from my point of view as a customer, if they did it more like car companies do, where there are package lines"
"I would like to improve the processing ability."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered higher performance, at least on the back end."
"We have seen some degraded throughput with mixed workloads. We have been working with Dell EMC to correct some of these latency issues."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"The price could be improved."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"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 could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". 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 SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell SC Series vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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