We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Pure Storage FlashBlade 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."It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"Technical support is good."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"Scalability is incredible. We have a single server cabinet today, but we can grow it to as many cabinets as we need."
"All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"We have been able to back up our data more frequently now that we have everything on flash. It responds a lot faster, so the IOPs are a lot faster."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The deduplication functionality is great. We have seen a lot of benefits in the deduplication ratio. So, it has proven that it is a good cost savings."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures efficient replication and helps maintain our data centers' uptime."
"We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and simple."
"It has also helped to simplify storage for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does."
"The initial setup is pretty quick."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"We have seen a reduction in the total cost of ownership by around 20%."
"It's very easy-to-use."
"The price could be better."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"It was not proactive communication."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"There were a few goofy things with support where we were trying to do OS upgrades and HPE MyRoom failed. However, they would not get on WebEx because they are only allowed to get on HPE MyRoom."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"Would like to see some management functions through a web interface."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"The speed could be improved."
"I have not seen ROI."
"The solution is expensive."
"It's on the expensive side, as expected for a niche product."
"Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"In terms of scalability, it doesn't expand out quite as robustly as some of the others, but it covers 90% of the market in what it does."
"I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. 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 FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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