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."The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"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."
"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."
"The new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly."
"We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance"
"It allows us to cohost as needed. We are able to put more systems on one data storage system and it is still able to deliver the availability and speed that we need it to deliver."
"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."
"I am a system integrator, so we sell a lot of 3PAR storage to our customers. Our business has increased compared to previous days."
"The GUI is very easy and performance is also good."
"It's a mature product. It's like a BMW that evolves consistently."
"The valuable features for us are the extra add-ons, such as the FIM provisioning, the compression, the disaster recovery capabilities, and the storage pooling functions."
"The solution is very easy to configure and use."
"Ability to manage third-party arrays and virtualise them: One screen to control multiple arrays. Simplified administration."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and performance."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"The speed, performance, and stability are the best features of IBM FlashSystem."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"We need additional enhancements to InfoSight, especially from a VM standpoint. Today, we can see in the Azure VM performance stats in 3PAR, but it is so huge, we can't just drill down on each and every VM and look at its performance."
"We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is at its end of life and they are forcing us to purchase new hardware. They will no longer support this solution. They should provide support for a longer time. For example, 10 years instead of five years."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"HPE could improve by raising awareness when a new product is launched. They must think of ways to better serve and engage with their enterprise customers. HPE is selling enterprise products and mission-critical support."
"With regards to the IBM V7000 storage system, where we have multiple tiers of storage, a heat map would show I/O distribution across the tiers of storage."
"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."
"The storage capacity of this solution could be improved."
"The design is a little old-fashioned and could be updated. The rack is very primitive and designed in an older style."
"They don't offer subscription-based payments."
"The interface of this solution could be improved."
"The GUI for monitoring performance metrics could provide better visibility. For example, it doesn't let me segregate the IOPS per volume."
"The initial setup is complex."
IBM FlashSystem products are enterprise computer data storage systems that store data on flash memory chips. Unlike storage systems that use standard solid-state drives, IBM FlashSystem products incorporate custom hardware based on technology from the 2012 acquisition of Texas Memory Systems. This hardware provides performance, reliability, and efficiency benefits versus competitive offerings.
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 298 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 5th in NAS with 105 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, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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