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 most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"Support has been helpful."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"Speed and reliability:"
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"It has improved uptime, as well as speed to delivery."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It works well and we don't have any issues with this solution."
"It is a stable solution."
"Our applications are now at least two to four times faster."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"This solution has allowed for massive performance acceleration of all workloads and massively increased availability (with peer persistence/transparent failover feature)."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"It was not proactive communication."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"We've encountered challenges in integrating other products with Dell Xtremio, as it tends to be more vendor-locked. This means we can't easily explore other solutions that might work alongside Dell."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"The cloud-based monitoring Infosight would be better if users are automatically enrolled in the cloud/group based on the configuration or information gathered or uploaded on the internet."
"I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team."
"The onsite techs have caused outages."
"Generally, the management of the multiple systems that we have is really the only problem, always having to go to all these separate tools to manage everything."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"The tool is old."
"Upgrades on them are a bit tricky. For us to do a head swap on one is a full outer joiner storage frame, which is obviously not that easy to do in a production environment."
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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