We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"The reliability is very good."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"It simplifies storage."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"For virtualization, the failure rate is much less compared to traditional storage where you need more hard drives"
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"The technical support is very good."
"Very recently, we are able to do a lot of data center automation by being able to script some of the 3PAR actions for our private cloud."
"There are a lot of screens for easy management where you can change some settings. But after a few years, the important settings were better after an upgrade, and all the vendors have other ways to upgrade their systems."
"From a single panel, I can see the performance of my service, my network, and my storage."
"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"This solution is resilient."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"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."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"Here in Algeria, we are facing a lot of trouble finding partners and getting support from HPE. There should be better support here in our country."
"The price of this solution should be lower."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"File Persona can be better. I don't use File Persona because it has many problems with my environment. The antivirus that it has is not compatible with File Persona, and that's a big issue with File Persona. 3PAR is not as good as Dell when making a file in the storage. 3PAR for a block is very good, but when comparing row capacity, I get 14% capacity with 3PAR, but with Dell, I get 60% capacity."
"There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"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."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"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."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
Earn 20 points
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while VMAX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while VMAX [EOL] is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMAX [EOL] writes "Offers seamless data compression and encryption with no impact on performance". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas VMAX [EOL] is most compared with .
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