We performed a comparison between HPE StoreOnce and HPE 3PAR StoreServ based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, HPE 3PAR StoreServ came out ahead of HPE StoreOnce. Even though both products have similar deployment difficulties, price range, and support quality, HPE StoreOnce has fewer valuable features than HPE 3PAR StoreServ.
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"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."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"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."
"It is a rugged, performance system; it is trouble-free and a workhorse."
"I do not have to worry about cross systems talking to each other or multiple systems trying to interact with each other. Our entire vCenter infrastructure is one large stack, which is nice."
"It is easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy to configure."
"It has a really powerful tool to measure data, how it is working, the performance, and if we have any bottlenecks."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"The initial setup is one of the most user-friendly B2B user solutions. It's good, it's easy. Deployment usually takes less than one day. You only need one person for deployment and maintenance."
"It's easy to backup data, manage. A"
"The most valuable features for us are the ease of use, the reliability, and the exceptional deduplication that we get across that data that we store on those devices."
"HPE StoreOnce works well, it is stable."
"It results in more efficient storage utilization, cutting capital expenditure in half."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"Quick recovery."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team."
"I would like to see more storage, a better interface, and to move from mechanical disks."
"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."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"The product is quite expensive."
"Scalability and management could be improved."
"I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"When it comes to upgrading, it always goes block-wise. One block is 48 TB raw capacity. It would be good if they can include a smaller capacity for SMB customers. Currently, it is not possible to increase in a smaller capacity. You have to buy the exact same unit. It would be great if they can provide a smaller next block. There are around 20 hard disks, and it would be really helpful if we can add 10 hard disks initially and 10 hard disks later."
"improvement? HPE StoreOnce has a limitation with respect to controllers. Other tools offer more than one controller. I feel that the high availability of the view controller should be redundant. The tool’s control and UI part should be improved and made more advanced. The feature that helps with the manual movement of tapes should also be improved."
"We would like to see some improvements in the Veeam Backup & Replication integration. It's good, but it has a lot of room to improve. In particular around the inability to easily move data between StoreOnce appliances."
"They could provide more options for storage capacity."
"The GUI and its user-friendliness have some room for improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with Veeam software."
"HPE should have more options so customers can choose from a wide range of products with small to big capacities."
"The product's price could be better."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. 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 HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and IBM FlashSystem, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veritas NetBackup. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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