We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Pure Storage FlashArray 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."Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"The technical support is very good."
"Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us."
"Stability is awesome. Its performance has been steady and it stays up."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"This product is stable, aside from the performance problems we had."
"The intelligence around the solution is good."
"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 most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"It simplifies storage."
"It has good stability for our company."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"I would like to see the reliability improve. While it has been a good product, the QA of the product could be done a little more thoroughly."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"The product is quite expensive."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"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 feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"The file functionality could be better."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Tintri VMstore. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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