We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"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."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated."
"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 intelligence around the solution is good."
"It is easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy to configure."
"It's reliable and it's fast."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"The most valuable feature is reliability."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"The performance of the All-Flash System is very good. There is more enhanced performance and data production in the solution, which I appreciate."
"IBM FlashSystem is a flexible solution with plenty of features."
"It's a mature product. It's like a BMW that evolves consistently."
"Over the years, it has become increasingly user-friendly."
"The Flash core models offer amazing performance."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"I would like to see the ability to be able to migrate to newer versions of the 3PAR without having to take any of our data offline and be able to upgrade on the fly."
"The first array that they sent us was in some type of a factory mode. We didn't find that out until we loaded a bunch of data onto it, then we had to back it all off. We had to replace the array, which was sort of painful."
"Feature-wise, with the InfoSight additions, there is a lot of the stuff missing in the intelligent interface. As they grow and push, a lot of it will not tie into Hyper-V."
"I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL."
"3PAR has StoreOnce and replication. I would like it if they worked together. Or, if I had Nimble and put that either in DR or a primary cohesive management, but still use the cool features of 3PAR, that would be awesome."
"We would like to see the ability to not only be integrated with hybrid IT, but on-prem."
"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."
"The interface of this solution could be improved."
"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."
"The solution's pricing is a bit high so there is room for improvement."
"Our customers have raised concerns about the limitations of the FlashSystem 5200 and 7300, which only offer a 32-gigabyte connection."
"I would like to have a larger disk. Right now, you can get 57 terabytes in a shelf. Once they get the larger disk and you get larger capacities, it'll be even better."
"There could be some extra features added."
"Sometimes the performance is effective but it gets resolved in the process."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. 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 IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE EVA, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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