We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and VMware vSAN 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 scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"It was straightforward, simple, and easy to set up, along with the OneView tools, for managing both compute and storage."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up."
"It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily."
"We're hosting virtual infrastructure on the 3PAR storage and it's been very good for that."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"The most valuable thing about vSAN is that all of its features have been working well for us for the past two years. We haven't had an issue with them."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"It helped us survive power outages in one of our data centers, then continued to function without a hitch."
"Being hyperconverged, it simplifies what equipment we have to buy."
"It completely removes the need for a storage network and for a storage administrator and all of that infrastructure and the costs that are involved with them."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"Easy-to-use, and easy-to-scale product."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"I would like to see the reliability improve. While it has been a good product, the QA of the product could be done a little more thoroughly."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"I would like to see a faster Ethernet connection. Right now, it is 10G. If they could do multiple hundred gigs to speed up the transfer from the array to the servers, that would be good. We are trying to get away from Fibre Channel."
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"I would like to see a little bit more integration from a cloud perspective. In this way, I would have some more flexibility to do more with data, how to store it, and where I have it."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
"I give it an eight because of the support, that I can't get support in my country. This is the worst part. Support cannot be sold until we are out of the sanctions."
"Integration with some cloud services would be nice... We would like to be able to provision from the 3PAR and decide whether or not we are going to provision onsite or the cloud."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
"Improvements can be made with respect to scalability."
"The price can be reduced. Small businesses cannot afford this solution."
"I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment."
"The product can be improved in a couple of ways. One of those would be that they have a lot of hidden features, that are through the CLI, that would be great to have in the GUI, or just be more open about those features. It's something called RVC. It's a tool in the back end. It's a really great tool, but I had to find it through Reddit. So more information on stuff like that would be great. Also, in the user interface, giving us more features and more reporting that we can do from vSphere itself would be helpful."
"The technical support, it's not satisfactory. Whenever we raise a ticket it takes a lot of time to have an engineer get involved sometimes, or we receive a less experienced engineer. We then have to repeat the situation to the next engineer which all takes time."
"The updating process could be easier."
"Lacks sufficient storage terabytes."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while VMware vSAN 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
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