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."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"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 ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"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."
"Good performance because it's an all-flash system. Basically, our applications run faster."
"From a single panel, I can see the performance of my service, my network, and my storage."
"Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance"
"The speed is very good."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"The solution is easy to use and very stable."
"The InfoSight feature helps us with troubleshooting problems in our environment."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has been stable."
"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."
"We've found the solution to be very stable so far."
"The technical support for this solution is good. They used to help us when the motherboard of Power Systems broke. Their response times are really fast."
"This solution is very stable."
"The speed, performance, and stability are the best features of IBM FlashSystem."
"The performance of IBM FlashSystem is very good. The new technology and high throughput have given us more confidence in the solution. The management of the system has improved and we can control the monitoring system alerts and multiple FlashSystems with the Enterprise Cloud Edition, which is free. The migration of recently stored data to a new flash is much easier. You can move your data because you can utilize it externally."
"The compression and deduplication features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is compression."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"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."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"We are using a built-in solution in 3PAR. We are using All-Flash Storage, and there are some difficulties with it. HPE has now developed a new tool system to support All-Flash, and that's why we are changing our investment. They must increase its performance. I want unlimited support, which is very important for performance. I am not interested in spinning disks. HPE is developing new storage systems called Primera, but they must be developed more."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ could have better integration into the cloud and converged infrastructure."
"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."
"I would like to see improvement in the product's scalability. As a partner, I had serious problems because of the competition from Dell EMC and Pure."
"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."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"AHV is Acropolis Hypervisor – A relatively new Hypervisor, robust and stable as VMware vSphere, has built-in advanced analytics and powerful operations, Self Service Portal and components for DevOps included, managed by a single pane of glass (Prism) via HTML5 and it is free of charge – That is why Nutanix is so advanced and revolutionary."
"The initial setup is complex."
"I would like to see bigger modules."
"The customer's expectations are what they get on the cloud, they're expecting even in the on-premises deployments, going forward."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"The solution is not able to replicate data in one-to-many scenario."
"It has room for improvement in the area of stability."
"We use some open-source tools for monitoring, such as Grafana and it should be bundled along with IBM FlashSystem."
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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