We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"This solution is very scalable."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"For virtualization, the failure rate is much less compared to traditional storage where you need more hard drives"
"The intelligence around the solution is good."
"The solution fetches quick responses in milliseconds which can be within 40-50 milliseconds."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"We have been able to scale faster and get our applications out in much less time. We don't need to worry about the platform's ability to manage the workload, so we are pretty happy."
"Proactive support. Before we notice that there's a problem in the storage, or any part, any hard disk, they already notify us, and within four hours, the product is delivered. Within the next hour after product delivery, the engineer is available to support me."
"The solution is very stable."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"I would like the documentation easy to find. There is a lot of documentation, but sometimes it is hard to find. You have to do a lot of searching to find it."
"We do not use Memory-Driven Flash in the old 3PAR. Perhaps we will use it in the new 3PAR. That is part of the reason why we are upgrading."
"It is suitable for medium-sized businesses and data centers with less number of users and less important data. It is not really an enterprise-level solution. It needs more capacity. It is also not really stable. It should be more stable. It should also support any server model. It is really weak in this area."
"Sometimes the required upgrades have been a little bit involved: "You have to do this before you do this," and I want them to explain to me why. It's more work than it should be."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"The price of this solution should be lower."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"It is a costly solution."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreVirtual 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 HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library.
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