We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Huawei OceanStor 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."Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing)."
"It is easy to manage and performs very well."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"We deployed 3PAR in the national and international markets. It's not bad, the solution."
"Technical support for both 3PAR and Dell EMC in my country, Iran, is very difficult because we are under sanctions."
"We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding."
"The ease of management is its most valuable feature. It is so much easier to manage storage on a 3PAR array than anything that we have had before."
"The solution works well for non-critical applications that do not require a heavy workload. The tool's all features are valuable."
"Stability: The product is designed to have always HA (High Availability) with redundant network and processors."
"Huawei OceanStor is a good product. Its interface is very simple. The complexities we encounter with recovery points are gone. We just attach to remote storage, click the application, and it starts."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"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 haven't seen ROI."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"If HPE 3PAR could handle NAS and all things related to NAS, you would not need to have a mixture of different storages, storage boxes, one solution could fit all."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"The price of this solution should be lower."
"The only drawback on it is that tech support seems really busy. We get a critical notification when an important patch comes out, but sometimes it's a month before we can get this critical piece on because they just don't have time on their schedules to do it sooner."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"Its storage capacity could be better."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"CFS integration is one area where OceanStor has some room for improvement. The CFS on OceanStor is dedicated, so it's not integrated with the existing active directory domain."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"The product must improve the local technical support in China."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Huawei OceanStor 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 Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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