HPE 3PAR StoreServ Other Advice

DW
IT Manager at BouMatic LLC

Look at HPE's roadmap for 3PAR, SimpliVity, and Nimble. Do your research, then pick the right one that works for you with the future that you envision.

I'm highly interested in using InfoSight going forward. One of the things that I have always tried to do is get to where I had just one dashboard for everything from managing from the desktop up to my Internet perimeter security. I want to look more at Aruba Networks and Cloud services to see how that might be able to help me integrate my WatchGuard perimeter security. I'm looking at Commvault and switching to Commvault for my backups, because eventually I just want one dashboard that shows me everything: servers, storage, switches, access points, and security perimeter points. That is the platform that can get me there.

That's one of the reasons why I'm at the conference is to check out HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity.

Biggest lesson learnt: Don't be absent during the design phase.

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MH
Independent consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

HPE have have made a new system to substitute with 3PAR. It is the HPE Primera solution. It is a product similar to 3PAR, but it's more converged together with the hybrid system. You can implement it on-premise of the cloud. It has cloud connect functionalities and the market is going that way. 

If you want a solution better than HPE 3PAR StoreServ you will be using Primera.

I would advise those wanting to implement this solution to use a partner which has high-scale competencies. They need to be technical experts, both in hardware and software. Customers cannot implement this solution themself. 

In the beginning, it was allowed for customers to do the installation, but after one or two years, HPE decided that it was not allowed. It is not allowed today. You need a certified person to do the installation and configuration.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.

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SanjayKumar11 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate General Manager at Adani Enterprises Ltd

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ nine out of 10. We use HPE because it's a hardware leader locally. We have a longstanding relationship with HPE, so we trust them more than other providers. But it's a stable product that runs with minimal support. 

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SH
Works at renesas

Generally, other storage solutions like EMC are used more than HPE 3PAR StoreServ. However, HPE 3PAR is better when we consider the cost of the product, scalability, and stability. I would recommend the solution to others. I would rate the solution a nine on ten.

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AT
Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I will recommend going with the all-flash arrays, especially on 3PAR, because that is something that I have personally experience with and I have not seen any issues.

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SH
General Manager IT at Chase Up

We have approximately 100 users that are using this solution.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.

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MR
Systems Engineer Manager at Ingles Markets, Incorporated

Look at both the 3PAR and Nimble, then see which one is best for your needs. They are both reliable systems which work great. They just run.

We have had 3PAR for a while. So, it has reduced time to deployment by about 10 percent, which is the same as our older platform.

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MA
SAN and Storage Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Definitely check it out, especially in your hypervisor environments. That is where the compression has really been a huge benefit for us, allowed us to regain some data center floor space because we're now able to put more of the environment in a smaller number of 3PARs. 

It's almost a 10 out of 10 but the reason it's not is that some of the upgrade processes have been a little challenging, not always technically, sometimes services-oriented. But other than that, the product itself, the ease of use and the value it's provided for us make it a valuable asset for us.

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it_user680235 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Admin at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Don’t have any second thoughts and just go with it. It's really a great product and should fulfill most business needs. It is easy to use.

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LV
ICT Director KA Infra at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

HPE 3PAR Flash Storage is old and is obsolete and we are moving to newer versions of the system.

HPE has several storage options, such as Nimble. HPE has a lot of operating systems for their storage, and they all have a different approach. They were all from different companies which HPE bought, for example, Nimble and Primera.

I would not recommend this solution anymore. I would advise others to look for new types of storage solutions.

I rate HPE 3PAR Flash Storage a four out of ten.

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Sisir Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Addiotinal manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

3PAR is very much reliable. In these four years, I've not raised a single ticket with HPE regarding 3PAR. 

I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten. It has good support, good UI, and good reliability.

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TK
Sr, Storage Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We're just customers. We don't have a business relationship with HPE.

Anyone interested in any solution should probably research the software that comes with their own system a little bit better. If you do that, there's a chance that you might not buy some of the things that we bought and that were defaulted on setup. That was not good. Knowing what works together well will help in the long run. Don't be afraid if a third-party asks you questions. They're probably just trying to get to the bottom of how your setup looks.

I'd rate the solution six out of ten overall.

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MF
HPC Architect at Nuance Communications

With our 3PARs, we have never lost data.

I would really push the chunklet technology. That is the main benefit out of 3PAR. The way it subdivides a disk into 1GB chunks. 

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it_user254751 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director, R&D Labs at Nuance Communications

So the criteria we use for our products is always about performance, latency, and cost. The reason for that is as a high performance computing environment, we want to get the most of our hardware. The tests we run against the hardware are typically tests that most people don't run. It's heavy duty, long amount of time, and HP was the most reliable in our tests, and also the best performing.

Considering the amount of issues we have with it were pretty much zero. It's a very good price. There's a lot of innovation going on. There's a lot of support, but there's always room for improvement, so…

The advantage of using the 3PAR, even at a smaller scale, is that you get all the features from day one. So if you're a small shop or a large shop, either way the features are available to you and it allows you to scale really easily, to the point where you could start with something small and end up with something really large, without having to change your model and architecture.

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MV
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The job of direct channel support to HPE 3PAR StoreServ is not an end of life or end of support but HPE Primera has now replaced it and I hope they get all the functionality in there like the HPE 3PAR. I remember it seems like HPE 3PAR and HPE Primera have support for volume plugins and that will be a big game if they can implement volumes on their system because that kind of release is much better than the datastore level.

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Wayne Cross - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Cyber Security at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Anyone looking into 3PAR or a similar solution needs to know the direction that the organization is going, and they need to make sure that they are are working with a vendor that is going in the same direction as the business is going. With hybrid IT, there are so many flavors of platforms out there. There's hyperconverged, the cloud is also in the mix, you have edge computing. So if you are looking for storage, you need a storage platform that can take care of the now, but from a manufacturer with the vision to know where the technology is going, so you feel like you can future-proof that platform. You don't want to buy a platform now and then, in a year and a half say, "Okay, well can my storage platform tie into this and this?" And they say, "No, no. We don't do that," and we have no intention of doing that. The important thing is to find a vendor that has a vision that matches your organization and provides the things that you want. You have to know what you want first as an organization, and then find the vendor that shares that vision with you.

Why do I rate  3PAR an eight out 10 and not a 10? It's a very complex platform to manage and it's not cheap either. It didn't really give us the level of flexibility we had for very, very small workloads. With Simplivity and Nimble, they are buying into that mid-range space. But back then, we didn't have a choice. 3PAR was the best choice, that fit everything that we had.

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PS
Storage Infrastructure Engineer at Cambridge Health Alliance

My advice to those wanting to implement this solution would be to find a good reseller who has expertise in HPE 3PAR StoreServ.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an eight out of ten.

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JS
Solutions Architect at Optio Data

They do great things. The system is great. It is just a matter of cleaning up some of the support stuff, then the enhancements that are not there yet. Hopefully, they are coming in with InfoSight. That is where it could be better.

Never have blinders; everybody has their favorite product, but do not turn away from keeping your vision open about a solution. Keep that in mind when you are looking at a product. 

Most important criteria for clients when they evaluate a vendor: A lot of that gets into supportability. What do they have for a track record? How easy is support to work with? How efficient are they? When things go wrong, I do not want be scrambling. How easy is it to get to support and get them on the line (an efficient use of support). 

As far as feature-rich, how does it work with everything from an availability aspect?

Everybody talks about backup, and lot of times, they are talking about it after storage. They should be talking about it together, because storage is part of backing it up. The business should be asking: Am I backing it up fast enough? Are my RPOs and RTOs inline with what the business SLAs are? 

When we start talking backups and the availability aspect to a lot of businesses, they do not seem to be defining their SLAs. They often do not have any. That is where we find that we are having more of a discussion which helps drive a lot of what we need to do. 

You do not want buy stuff, then say, "What can we do with it?" You should be defining what you want to do with it, then purchasing. That is a lot of how we are changing the purchasing process. 

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IO
Senior IT Infrastructure & Data Center Operation Engineer at Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Egypt

If you are a new company and you need more capacity, availability, and scalability, you can choose 3PAR. Otherwise, you can choose another storage. When you put 3PAR, you must tell the customers about the usable capacity from the first day, not the row capacity.

I would recommend taking the official course from HP for 3PAR before performing any tasks. This is because 3PAR is not easy to manage in your IT environment. You must know everything about storage and how everything is written in the storage.

I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an eight out of ten.

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DV
Director of Technology at a university

You couldn't go wrong with the 3PAR system.

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SK
Security Officer at Videocon Intelligent Security Private Limited

I'm an end-user and handle storage only. 

Unfortunately, I cannot recommend the product as it is at end-of-life. However, I would rate it ten out of ten. 

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TE
Solutions Architect

Give the product a good, hard look, because HPE does a very good job. They are a market leader. They are not a small player in the space. You can be very comfortable when dealing with a company like HPE.

It is doing everything that we want it to do. We are not that big, so we did not have a lot of crazy requirements. Therefore, it is doing everything we want it to do. The other big factor is that it is easy to use.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: 

  • Price
  • Easy of use
  • Ability to have two arrays back each other up. In case one of them has a problem, the other one can take over.
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TR
CTO for Microsoft & Infrastructure Platforms at Amey

If you speak to your techies, as opposed to your managers, and ask them how easy it is for them to use and understand 3PAR, they'll say it gets a 10/10. The techies get it and they love it.

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it_user233388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Do your homework and follow the deployment guides, it will save time and headaches. If you do not license at least Direct Optimization the array cannot re-level the data so the array will eventually not preform to peak efficiency as you add and remove data.

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TS
Head of IT Department at Sonepar

HPE is a vendor that I recommend in general, and especially for storage solutions.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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CP
SAN Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I'm a consultant and an HPE partner and I have my hands on several different things in terms of products I use.

Normally I work with all the versions as far as software versions. I've worked with all the different hardware, 3PAR versions as well, and I do a lot of installations.

The big thing and with 3PAR and with any other storage - and this goes for any kind of storage as you're sizing - is to make sure that you are getting the right size environment for what you currently have and what you expect for future growth. Otherwise, you may run into performance issues.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate it at a nine. We've been quite happy with the solution so far. It's robust and offers very good performance.

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RM
Systems And Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nine out of 10 times, the system does exactly what we need it to do.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: Knowing that the product works. We like to choose bigger companies. We do not like to invest in startups because you never know if they will be acquired. 

We have a good existing relationship with HPE, which was a lot of what steered us toward using them in the storage space.

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NS
Sr. Engineer at a leisure / travel company

This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand.

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WC
Director IT at Borden Ladner

It's not necessarily about the price. The price is certainly an important factor, but what the solution does and how it supports you is even more important than price.

Our biggest lesson was that we need to do our homework and make sure that we're going with a vendor that can support us in the long term.

I would probably rate this as eight and a half out of ten. It does what it's supposed to and does that very well, even if there are areas to improve on. More integration with cloud would be great. But what it does, it does very well.

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RuiAlves - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Proindustrial, Lda.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an eight out of ten. 

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RS
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.

The setup is pretty straightforward but HP only allows their engineers to do the setup. This gives us peace of mind for the setup.

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TS
IT Operations Manager at ACCC INSURANCE COMPANY

Understand your needs first. If you do not have a need for a highly technical solution, or you have workloads which are not high-performing. 3PAR is a perfect fit.

Understand your environment. Know what you are getting into. Research the different tools which are out there. Make sure that it is a good fit. It is nice to have the high performance stuff, but if you do not have high performance workloads, keep it simple and 3PAR is simple for us.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor:  Our biggest requirement was ease of use. Scalability was another. We can scale it up pretty much as big as we need to. Those were the two biggest criteria.

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SM
Project Development Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Go out, do your research first on the different products that are out there and make the judgment for yourself. The information is out there.

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PiyushKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Machine Learning Engineer at Tata Consultancy

I would recommend HPE 3PAR StoreServ to other users because it has good stability and performance.

Overall, I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an eight out of ten.

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Shivam Arora - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Consultant at HCL Technologies

I advise others to test the feasibility of the solution's compatibility checks feature when moving from source to target. Apart from that, it is easy to use. I rate it as a nine.

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Shashikant Naik - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant at Infosys

I would recommend this tool to other users, consumers, or customers.

I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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JohnMitchell - PeerSpot reviewer
jmitchell@natbankmw.com at NBM

It's a very good system, especially the All-Flash system. That's quite good. The only downside is the price — otherwise, the product is perfect. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of eight.

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AD
Director of North America at a sports company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product has met our expectations. Once we got past the minor configuration issues, it's been smooth sailing, so I'm very happy with it. It is important to understand the terminology upfront because it helps prepare to do the actual implementation.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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JT
Network Admin at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Spend your time doing the research on the product and learn the system.

So far, it has been pretty reliable. It has been a set it and forget it type product, which has been great, except for when there are some minor issues. However, the issues that we have had were resolved fairly quickly.

We are flash and standard disk combo, or hybrid. Having flash though does not mean that we have faster performance. What it does helps us with is being able to see more patients, because we're not having to wait as long for applications to load or waiting for the data to get sent to where it needs to be.

Biggest lesson learnt: Why didn't we do it a long time ago?

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PP
Sr. Storage Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I rate it a nine out of 10 because the product just works; we haven't had a lot of problems. I'm satisfied with the product.

3PAR is a proven, more reliable and stable SAN solution. Go with it.

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JW
Virtualization Systems Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees

I am not on the latest release yet. We are still trying to get there. The people that I work with at HPE have recommended where we should be in our version. We are not to the 3.3 version yet. I am looking forward to upgrading, because you can do them yourself. You do not have to have HPE do them. Also, it will integrate with InfoSight, which I am looking forward to.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: In our case, price is usually the biggest factor, because we are a university and have no money. Price is always big when we make a decision.

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RuiAlves - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Proindustrial, Lda.

I can't compare it with other brands because we only have this system. 

I would advise having some reference implementation that you can test and see if it's good for your needs. In my case, I would have liked to have the opportunity to test it first to see if it's good for our use case, but I couldn't.

I would rate it an eight out of 10. Performance is the only thing that I would like them to improve.

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HV
Infrastructure and Networks at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We would recommend this solution to others.

It works well and we don't have any issues with it.

I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a ten out of ten.

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RW
Systems Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

My advice would be, make sure you know your workloads going into it and how you will best be able to utilize a solution, especially when deciding what disk structure to get and how to lay it out.

Overall, I would rate 3PAR at eight out of 10. The biggest issues we had were performance issues with the older version, but this one has been doing okay.

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it_user332682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage and Backup Engineer at Fidelity Investments

It has met our performance and stability expectations. 3PAR is one of the best in the market and it is evident that its sales have raised to 10x since it was acquired by HP. All cloud solutions from HP and many other companies use HP 3PAR storage on their backend for their cloud solutions.

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it_user331335 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database & Hosting Team leader at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

3PAR is designed around the ASIC which eliminates the CPU bottleneck and RAID limitation in other vendors.

We would say 2-3 years. Always purchase at the year end of the vendor to obtain the best pricing and also purchase the maintenance in advance, for example I purchase with 5 years maintenance included.

HP regularly organizes events which are good to go to as they announce new innovations and share other customer experiences.

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Anjal Dave - PeerSpot reviewer
GM-IT at BSE

We choose the solution because HPE is a long-term partner. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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AT
Director of Technology Services at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ and eight out of ten.

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MD
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

At this time I would not recommend this solution because it is at the end of its service life.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.

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LA
System Engineer at GEBE

I don't really know the other products out there, but I love this product.

We are not running SSDs drive yet. When we move to SSDs, I think it will be much faster.

We are not yet using the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity offering.

Biggest lesson learnt: if you have a good product, you have less maintenance.

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EH
Principal Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Just try it out. Do a PoC side-by-side. It wins.

Most important criteria when evaluating a vendor: 

  • The technical aspects of the price
  • The return on investment
  • The support. 

You are not making a decision based on just one or two things. If you are, you are not doing a good service for your company or your stakeholders

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PS
Solutions Engineer at AmWINS Group, Inc.

I really love that platform. It's rocked for us. It's, like I said before, it's near nirvana for our environment, because we are trying to do something where we want to avoid disasters and have seamless fail-over, and I don't know of another solution that can accomplish that in our environment.

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it_user238902 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Make sure that you are trained on the nuances of 3PAR technology if you select this Storage Area Network.
  • There are many useful features and you need to leverage them to lower the total ownership cost while easing the management of the device.
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it_user567807 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at Bruggs Cable

I would say go for it. You should at least give it a chance.

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it_user471279 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

Get 4 nodes at the start. I would say that's important. Plan more long term rather than what you need now. Get the licensing and nodes you need upfront, makes it easier to expand later.

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it_user252627 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solutions Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees

We always look for ease of use, and 3PAR is very easy to use.

From my experience with other storage platforms, if you want something where underlying hardware is designed with a goal and you rely on pre-existing hardware around which you build your product, you’re setting yourself up for failure from the beginning. It seems to me that something like 3PAR, where it’s designed around a specific product, just makes life so much more easier. You’re essentially setting yourself up for success with a product like 3PAR.

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VK
GM at SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant

In general, this product works well. That said, it is not perfect because there is always a difference between what we expect and what is delivered. There has to be a gap.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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TS
Head of IT Department at Sonepar

There is a storage replication feature that I think is nice, although we don't use it right now.

For us, this product is a very good, full-flash storage. The suitability of this product depends on the organization. It comes down to a combination of the performance and the price.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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TM
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My current 3PAR, three years ago I would have rated it a 10 out of 10. Today, just because it's aged, I'd give it a solid seven. It's because the drive architecture has changed over the years. Comparing it to the new ones that are out... it comes back to "better, faster, stronger." Without me spending another six figures to swap out hundreds of terabytes of storage, I can't get the added performance. It comes down to me making a critical decision of, "Okay, how do I balance my current IOPS, deliver what I need to deliver to my customer, and still meet the budget?"

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it_user568029 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Infrastructure and Security at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

It all depends on what you need, and how you can justify the cost. It is not a cheap solution. It depends on what you have. If it's a brand new setup, then there are other paths you can take, and it's worth researching them. If you already have HPE deployments in-house on the server side, not the storage, I think 3PAR will definitely make a very great addition to your portfolio.

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it_user285930 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Operations at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of a rating from 1-10, I’d say a nine and I’m not gonna give you a ten until I have at least two units mirrored over my data centers. I think that’s gonna get me a ten, but bottom line is simplicity. With a lot of the competing arrays you really need to have a team that-that’s really eager and motivated to go and configure this array and try some of the obscure features. I just don’t have time for that. I need this thing up, I need it running, and I need it now, and with 3PAR we’ve been able to achieve that objective and keep our cost per terabyte in line.

My one recommendation is we started pretty small, we only bought the all-flash starter kit which is 8 SSD drives and no additional shelves, no spindles. That is a great unit however most of the features that really leverage the power of the 3PAR require kind of that blended approach of the spindle drives and the SSD’s. So buy the flash starter kit and buy some spindles as well.

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BE
Enterprise Architect at Blessing Hospital School of Medical Laboratory Technology

Evaluate if the money savings is worth it. One of the problems that we have had is HPE spec'd it out for us. They underspec'd it, so this was one of our problems with performance. It did not have the amount of drives in it that we needed.

Pay attention to what you are spec'ing out and make sure that it will meet your requirements.

It is a good product, but it is very software driven, and it has some software problems. That will be our challenge going forward. Once we go out of maintenance, how do we keep the system up-to-date software-wise, if we have problems purchasing maintenance?

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: Cost is definitely part of it and reliability has to be there. When you buy something, you do not know what you are getting until you purchase it and put it into production. We did not do any type of try and buy. It was just off the word of the vendor.

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SD
IT Manager at City Of Sparks

My advice is, look beyond the sales pitch. Talk to customers, and find out how they're really using it and how easy it is to use. Because, sometimes the sales pitches, in my opinion, it doesn't really get how people are using it day to day.

I can't imagine not having 3PAR. We're very happy with it. I just bought more storage and actually bought another 3PAR which is being installed next week. We're continually adding on to it, and I would consider that one of the bests things we could do because you can never have enough space to put everything. I work for a local government. We now even now have body-worn camera videos, and we somehow have to store them temporarily before they put out to cloud storage. We need good, reliable data because we never want to get caught not having something we need.

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BH
Unix Admin at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would give 3PAR an eight because, first, I don't think anything is ever a 10. It's still really good - but since 9 is really close to 10, and that's almost perfect - it's about an eight. The reliability is really there. Once it's there, it's there. You don't really have to worry about it, which is really nice because we have enough things to worry about.

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it_user784074 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Department Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Our most important criteria when selecting a vendor, or what we appreciate most about a vendor, are

  • support
  • easy to reach
  • trust.

If you want a cost-effective solution, go for 3PAR. We did a PoC and found it effective.

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it_user680247 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior system administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Work with HPE and the sales team. The HPE sales team has been great to work with. They offered a great solution to us.

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it_user470361 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director of Technology at Resorts World Las Vegas

In a converged environment, 3PAR is a very good product to look at. There's a lot of good competition out there with NetApp and EMC VNX, but 3PAR is right up there with them. It has features and performance.

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it_user248730 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

Specifically with flash, I would say don't believe the hype of other vendors that say they can save you money by deduping and that was their go to strategy. With 3PAR, they can do the exact same thing and it's a lot more scalable on an enterprise level and you'll pay about the same amount of money. Don't apply the latest technology, even though they say it's vetted and tested. Just in case, dedup was a relatively new feature.

We deployed it believing in the reliability of the 3PAR and it ended up being a problem for us. Wait until a couple of cycles have ended. Let customers that do that vet it for you and that's just typical sound practice. It's really invaluable. We heavily rely on online resources to do that research for us and the reviews are critical. We'd like to see things that other people in our same caliber are using. When we explore a new solution for example, we say, "Okay. Can you give us our position, equivalency in that customer? Can we talk to them and see how their real life experiences has been with it?" That kind of thing, online reviews very, very important.

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it_user285345 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Alliance Resource Partners

In comparing HP 3PAR against really EMC and some of the others, the ability to kind of maximize the actual storage. So thin provisioning, the ability to use all disc realistically across the storage system from an IOPS perspective, rather than your traditional monolithic, to where you're isolating storage groups and raid groups to particular LUNs and that's all the disc they have, so your spindles are limited, you move away from that.

At the same time, our ability and our need realistically to transform the raid or the stripe size, our IO kind of dictated that at times, or our lack of knowledge of IO, and that was really, came along as a third item, is the tools that were native in the 3PAR InServ store gave us the ability to look at the IO versus Navi-analyzer and others, while the capabilities there, we were either inhibited from a performance standpoint, or we weren't getting all the data and visibility that we needed.

Don't be afraid of the price tag, number one. If you're willing to really set out a roadmap and know the investment and what you're able to give back to the business, look at what you're able to give back to the business. In our case, we had individuals during close, close would take up to 18 days. It's now down to 10 days. We had individuals that would literally kick off reporting FSGs at night and go home and then check back on them. They might fail, and they'd have to try and kick them back off. They couldn't run them ad hoc during the day. They had to only run them during certain times because the system wouldn't sustain it.

Now they can do that any time they want. So don't just look at the price tag of the infrastructure. Look at what you can actually give back to the business, see how you can actually facilitate the business's strategic direction.

I think peer reviewers are priceless. Realistically, you can get all the marketing hype, but at the end of the day, seeing how somebody has either pushed the boundaries on a product, looked at the product, and used it in ways that a development team could never- or a product team could never actually envision, and see it either live or die, you know, how it performed, those are the things that you get out of community and from peer reviews, that you're not necessarily going to get from your traditional marketing.

Finding a group of individuals that you know is important, that you know the context of their background, because with any data, especially on the Internet, you have to understand the context of where people are coming from, what their knowledge level is, how truthful they're really willing to be. And so having that trusted community is very important.

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it_user285360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, IT Infrastructure & Architecture at SOCAN

There's always room for improvement. You know, maybe two years from now we'll be seeing flash costing, 10 cents a gigabyte or something like that. But, no, we've been extremely happy with the solution. My team that manages it and as well as my customers, being the business and the application developers are all very excited about what flash can do for them, for their workloads.

What I recommend to other people looking at all flash solutions, I would take a look at not only the company that's selling it, but the background of the technology itself. There have been a lot of flash startups, a lot of flash startups being purchased by big name companies like Cisco, EMC, etc. So don't let the big name fool you. Do your homework. Make sure you ask the right questions, and look at the history of the product. Talk to some of the customers and get their feedback and see how they're doing with the solution.

I think there was one, I wouldn't say gotcha, but one thing that we kind of had to know going in to take advantage of some of the technology that the people had. Like the in-line de-duplication was the block size. So by default, when you deploy a Windows server it formats at the sort of 4K block size. Take advantage of that, you have to use 16K or higher, so if we had thought of that ahead of time, it would have, we would see benefits more sooner. But now that we're well into our deployment, we have obviously made that adjustment. So I would just say to make sure that people look into that before they deploy.

I would say peer reviewers are very important. You know, sales people being sales people that are trying to sell you their product, that's their job. But when you want to talk to the customers and get feedback from the people that are actually using it, the people that spend their hard earned dollars, that are actually supporting the product, I think that is very valuable in itself, and it's very important to me.

I normally go about finding info by networking, talking to some of my peers; when I do deal with sales people, I ask them for references. They obviously give you curated references, but, you know, ask the right questions and ensure that the people they're talking to are generally being honest, and they generally are. They don't want to mislead you, so it's good to have that relationship beforehand, and even afterwards, reaching out to speak to people.

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it_user251871 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I think that the most important criteria when selecting a vendor is the business need and the reliability to make my job easier. I need it to be fast and efficient and be able to get graphs and reports from it. Definitely look at 3PAR as it’s a great piece of hardware.

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it_user194907 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Team Lead at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

We are using the SSD but not flash. Even without that part, we are very satisfied with the performance.

It is reasonable and good product.

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PD
GIDC India - Architecture Design and Engineering Leader at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We use it in our company as well as our customer's companies.

We've used all different versions of 3PAR from the smaller arrays to the newest one, which we have, even their 2400, 2800 versions as well.

StoreServ is good storage, which needs to get implemented alongside other products to allow it to be utilized in the way it's supposed to be - especially in a private cloud environment. Some of the other storage arrays, which came after StoreServ didn't really fully feature. For example, Nimble. We thought Nimble would do that, however, that's not the case. Still, StoreServ is quite well-rounded as storage, which we can still work with on multiple traditional environments plus with the new environments - with cloud and DevOps running the show. 

I'd rate the solution at a six out of ten.

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DB
IT Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

The All-flash has better performance, which means that our applications are faster. Our performance has increased by twenty to thirty percent.

The biggest lesson that I learned from this solution is to try something before you reject it.

My advice for anybody considering this solution is to test all of the functions that the vendor tells you about. It is important to see how it works in order to see whether it suits your business.

This is a good solution, but it is not perfect.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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JN
ICT Country Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Never go with your first impression regarding 3PAR. They say that hybrid is the best thing anytime, but if you read the small print, it depends on how you use it, etc. So, we went with an all-flash for that reason. So, don't go with your first feeling. Investigate and try it out. Try to get a demo to make sure it works.

I like that the solution's availability gives me: 

  • Ease of use
  • Performance
  • Good support from HPE.
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JI
Engineering Manager at Leidos Holdings Inc.

It's a great product. Their support is great. We even have the ability to have loaner products provided to us as an option. We can have the products come inside and test and use them before we make our final decision. That helps with the analysis and recommendation process, so it's been a great partnership with HPE.

We haven't really had any significant issues. So other than that it's able to provide what we need and that the customer service is great, we haven't learned any big lessons from using it.

We don't use too much deduplication, but from what we've seen so far, it seems to execute what we need it to execute.

Once we get this issue that we've had recently resolved then I would say it's a ten out of ten. We haven't had any real issues with it.

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RS
Director at HCL Technologies

Product-wise, it is good. In terms of cost, I will leave the choice to them.

Most important criteria that our customers select a vendor:

  • Supportability
  • Scalability
  • Financing.

The main reason that our customers choose 3PAR is because of price.

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JH
Supervisor Infrastructure at Blessing Health System

I would have rated it higher, but there was a length of time that it took to resolve and get the product working the way we wanted it to. This happened on day 60 rather than day one.

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AD
Delivery Director at Schneider Electric

In our limited experience so far, it has been excellent. Support has been fantastic, the setup process was smooth.

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CF
Global manager, servers and storage at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
  • Get a proof-of-concept
  • Draw a list of testing criteria
  • Have a testing matrix
  • Be clear in your objectives

3PAR is a great solution but it has a big physical footprint for the amount of data. There are other solutions out there. If you don't necessarily require the performance and the redundancy, there are other things to consider. But, it's a really solid storage appliance.

I would give the 3PAR an eight out of 10. Because we don't have any issues with it, it's hard to complain about it. But obviously giving it a 10 out of 10 would mean that there is no work to be done. I give it a strong eight.

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BK
Head Of IT Data Center at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees

In terms of the most important criteria when selecting a vendor - I'm saying with a small disclaimer, I'm saying this personally, so it's not the company - for me, the most important is always vendor support. We have, of course, contracts with partners that implemented the solutions, but I think that vendor support is mandatory in the way they are supporting you through the lifecycle of the product. It can overcome any problem the technology may deal with.

I give it an eight out of 10 overall. Whenever I rate something, I'm immediately going subtract one because I'm really reluctant to give a maximum grade, so say, "Okay, now it's nine." Well, there is room for improvement, and the way that the implementation of extensions goes is one of the examples. But, overall, I would say we are fully satisfied.

I actually do recommend HPE 3PAR because, for me, it proved to make my life easier.

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SD
IT Manager at City Of Sparks

When selecting a vendor the most important criteria for us is ease of connectivity. I also like the fact that I know Hewlett Packard Enterprises. I've worked with them for a long time. They're very reliable.

I give it a 10 out of 10 because it's just been awesome. We have four 3PARs running our enterprise, the city.

Don't be afraid. It can do just about everything you want to do; for a small/medium business, to a large business. I'm running a small city and all our storage is 3PAR.

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it_user783942 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

I give it a nine out of 10 because it fulfills what we need and, as I said before, it's reliable and it satisfies our customers. That's the most important point for us; to have satisfied customers.

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it_user680232 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Network Services at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

I still think it is the best solution out there. HPE will help support issues or even upgrades.

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it_user567753 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Head of Server and Storage Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

When picking a vendor, the ability to execute on time and deliver on time is most important.

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Roshan Dias - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at Informatics (Private) Limited

One admin is enough to maintain the solution if it is single storage. A complex environment with a heavy workload will need more people to maintain the solution.

I would recommend HPE 3PAR StoreServ to users based on their use cases.

Overall, I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a seven out of ten.

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Ayman Jweinat - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at IT as a Service Solutions

I would rate the product an eight out of ten. A stable and performance-oriented product. 

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Vitali Karpovich - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Manager/Program Director at Qvantel

I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. You need to properly assess your needs before buying the solution since there are chances of overpaying. The type of configuration that you choose can make the price go higher or lower.

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KB
Team Leader Presales at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

I cannot recommend 3PAR. Most of the cases can be covered with entry-level storage, which is the HP MSA. 3PAR is needed for some quite big platforms or environments. Most of the time, the entry-level MSA storage is more than enough.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

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Hakan Pehlivan - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Bilgipark Görüntü ve İletişim San. Tic. A.S.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine.

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CC
Director IT at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

Using this solution has increased our system performance. We will continue to use HP products in the future, and this is a solution that is worth investing in.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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AM
IT Manager at a energy/utilities company

We like it so much that we are in the process of evaluating our next three to five year roadmap. We are planning to reinvest in the next generation of the systems.

Everything can always get better, but I’ve been very happy with it. I have not been called in during the middle of the night because of it. It is the right solution for the right people.

Biggest lesson learnt: You get what you pay for.

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SL
Manager, Data Center at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

Evaluate your needs. Prepare a cost comparison comparing it to what your needs are. Sometimes, you may not need a 3PAR if you are looking for secondary storage. You may want to go with Nimble. You need to look at what your requirements are, then make your determination that way.

Most important criteria for selecting a vendor: 

  1. Price
  2. Best of breed
  3. Reliability.
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SS
Director Of Information Technology at Jacobsen Construction Company, Inc.

I would rate 3PAR a nine out of 10, primarily for a couple reasons. First, we've never had problems with it. It has been super stable, it has done everything that we've wanted it to do, and the performance is great. Second, I never give anything a 10, because there are always improvements that can be made.

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it_user680223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Tech Engineer at St Charles health

Make sure you're looking at everything that's out there and that 3PAR has come a long way.

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it_user567555 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Lanware

Absolutely get the design of the system right. Work very closely with the right pre-sales technical teams. If you don't, it can be expensive to try and rectify that after you've bought it.

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it_user567642 - PeerSpot reviewer
Broadcasting Technologist at a media company with 10,001+ employees

When looking for a vendor, look for reliability, backup, support, and reputation. It's got to be someone we know who has a good reputation in the industry. We do go with some newer sort of vendors as well, but we like HPE for their reputation. We know their stuff is good because we've been using them for years.

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it_user477453 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager Enterprise Services at a venture capital & private equity firm with 501-1,000 employees

I would recommend it over anything. It's a great array; the cost was very competitive; the performance is great.

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it_user285342 - PeerSpot reviewer
Group CEO at LayerX Group

So most recently, we have implemented the all flash or the entire flash-based 3PAR 7450, and the roadmap towards making that decision was really around performance. We've always kept a couple of keywords close to our heart with relation to our branding, and performance is one of those, quality being the other. And so the all flash environment has enabled us to deliver on promise with regards to performance.

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AH
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

I rate 3PAR a nine out of ten. Maybe there are better storage options, but from my experience 3PAR's performance is better than the other storage solutions I have used. The market has other big storage options, but I don't have experience in those. As of now, we are satisfied with this solution and I would recommend it to others. 

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TS
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

My advice to others looking into the implementation of the solution is to pay attention to detail if you are on iSCSI. 

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten. 

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TZ
IT Infrastructure Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Definitely look at 3PAR. It is worth it.

We do use the Memory-Drive Flash. We don't have any problems with latency anymore that we had eons ago. However, I can't really tell you from a technical perspective if it was from implementing 3PAR or something else.

We do not use InfoSight predictive analytics yet, but I would like to.

The biggest lesson learned is 3PAR is good, and I want it for future. Let us find a way how to do it. It was a giant leap in technology at the time that we purchased it, and I would like to do the same next time, which will be very close. While I wouldn't say not to buy a 3PAR again, we will need a new technology that will do the giant leap forward again. We need a big step once every few years instead of doing granular steps every year.

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DN
Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

They are very good, and I like the product.

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DG
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I rate the product itself at nine out of 10, but support gets a four out of 10.

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RK
Educational Team Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The HPE enterprise name is crucial for my clients when considering which vendor to go with. They have been HPE clients for a long time, many years. To them, this brand gives them confidence that the solution will work. They also have great local support from the HPE team and from us.

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it_user500049 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect with 10,001+ employees

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: We look for reputation. Also, we want to have confidence in the product. We want to know a product has been deployed for a lot of customers. So, we are looking for a mature product as well.

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it_user684996 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

For their own benefit, they really should consider 3PAR. It's so reliable, functional, has great support from HPE, and it is tied into so many of the HPE family of products. It is a great piece of hardware.

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it_user252618 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Systems Administrator at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees

Support and service is a big one for us, we needed good support. Also, we had to make sure pricing was good. For our purposes, it’s the best SAN that we have found. The things that keep it from being 10/10 are things like Peer Motion and the back end service.

Unless you have a very specific kind of load that requires a super high-end array, which 3PAR is not designed to be, I would recommend you look at HP, as there’s a very wide range of what HP can cover.

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it_user230487 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at ProCredit Bank

For sure you should ask HP to present you the product and I think you'll love how simple and robust it is. It's a great product for mid-range, big companies, and banks. It's redundancy and expandability are great, and it is packed with a lot of features and technologies.

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SR
Sr. Manager - IT Systems at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. I've been pretty happy with its capabilities. 

I'd recommend the solution to other users and organizations. 

We don't have plans to leave this solution any time soon. We'll likely have it for the next two to three years. 

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DB
Network Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

It does a great job and I do not have to worry about it. It worries about itself. It tells me if there is something wrong.

Go to Houston, the executive briefing center, if you can. It is very good because you get a very deep dive and you can ask questions to obtain information. I did it and thought it was helpful.

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it_user685005 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager

I would highly recommend this solution. The trends in storage solutions have been going through a lot of changes. They are not as centered on basic storage. They are moving to local and multiple nodes of storage. These storage-defined solutions have been evolving a lot over these last couple of years. It will be a harder decision to choose between one or another vendor.

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EG
Sales Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

If you have a bunch of mixed workloads and you have an environment, it'll support most customers' solutions. You can get a lot more storage in a smaller footprint, so for your data center, power cooling, and OPEX, it's a good solution.

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it_user568014 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Manager at City Electrical Factors

We currently use the P4000, which is iSCSI. We will go for the fiber channel next time, which we have been comparing with the 3PAR.

When choosing a vendor, their reputation, and obviously the quality of the products, are important. HPE is pretty consistent with these.

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it_user229380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

3PAR is the best storage product HP has ever sold. It's not cheap, but it's definitely one of the better block-level storage products out there.

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it_user225402 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server and Storage Practice Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

After spending months of looking at products and choosing the HP 3PAR’s the best advice is to:

  • Plan the installation and migration – this saved us time in getting the new storage in production
  • Think about all the features you require as they aren’t expensive and probably will save you money (Peer-Persistence was a good one for the 7400)
  • Don’t buy for years – as they are easily upgraded the capacity should be sized correctly.
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it_user183474 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Organize a couple of meetings with the technical staff to build the storage array that will meet your demands. Knowing in front which type of RAID you will need and the type of IO will benefit you.

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TM
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

The product is at end of life so although we'll continue to use it, I wouldn't recommend it. 

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

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GG
Architect at GTE 24/7

3PAR provides high performance and HPE's service is good.

In terms of HPE GreenLake, we have just introduced this service to our client. We expect it will help with our client's capacity management efforts, but for now we have just presented and explained the service.

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AL
Server Analyst at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

I would definitely recommend it. It is a good fit for our organization, and if it works for you, that would be great too.

File Persona is now included, so we might explore doing file shares straight off of the 3PAR array.

We do not use HPE GreenLake.

Biggest lesson learnt: The initial pain is worth it.

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EJ
HP-UX System Admin at L3 Technologies Inc

The biggest lesson that I learned from using 3PAR is the snapshot capability.

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SA
Systems Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees

From my experience in the past with other storage solutions, it is very easy to use with pretty good support. So far, from what I have seen, I do like it.

It is a real good solution. It is probably one of the better storage solutions for large enterprises and main back-end storage that I have used in the past.

We do the InfoSight predictive analytics. We have just gotten into it with the 3PAR storage, as we have mainly used it on the Nimble side.

We actually don't use the deduplication right now. That is something that we have looked into, but haven't implemented yet.

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MB
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I've had a great experience with it and I would recommend it to a colleague.

I rate it at nine out of 10. It's a very stable platform, it's very easy to learn how to use, has an easy user interface, tasks are very simple for an admin. As I said before, you set it up and you don't have to worry about it after that. With HPE you're in good hands.

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WW
Systems Architect at Greenville Health Systems

It has been very beneficial for us.

The most important criteria when evaluating a vendor: 

  • Resiliency
  • The data replication features
  • An all-flash array 
  • Performance.
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it_user783903 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT Infrastructure at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our most important criteria when selecting a vendor are

  • stability
  • after sales support 
  • cost.

The experience that we have had with HPE is pretty good.

Product-wise, it's good. It differs from environment to environment. What we require, for the criteria of our environment, is met quite well.

I would say do a PoC. Have a look at the solution. It's pretty stable, scalable. I don't see a problem, why anybody should not go with HPE. They've got multiple solutions in terms of storage also. 3PAR is not just a single solution. They have, they can cater to a hybrid. A lot of things are there. SSDs, a normal SATA disk, high end or low end. So it depends on what your requirements are. You should be doing a PoC just to confirm that it is it.

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it_user582870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at loanDepot

Do not buy this solution. It lacks the innovation required to compete in the market.

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it_user567645 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at Vanheede Environment Group

When looking for a vendor, stability and a proven track record are the things to look for. I would absolutely recommend it. When you need fast storage, high capacity, and deduplication, it's a good solution.

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it_user481920 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Know that the raw usable is actually raw and not a lot of arrays come with their usable being RAIDed already. Say it says 270 terabytes, that's raw, and it's actually if you use a RAID5 you got to take a 20%. So you have to adjust for that when you're planning size. Everything else is straightforward.

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it_user485712 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Datacenter Specialist at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Either go all Flash or at least a mix of flash and near line, you don't want to just get locked in with just near line or SaaS, because you're going to get locked in with slow disk and it gets really hard to upgrade after the fact.

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FM
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are now thinking about transitioning to the HPE Nimble or Primera, although not this year. This may happen in 2022. We plan to continue using this solution for performance, and availability. We are following the recommendation of HPE. They have recently started to mention the Primera and Nimble, which is why we are studying them.

We are not looking as much at Nimble because we are interested in the 100% availability that Primera has. The Primera is a little more expensive than the Nimble, so this is something that we have to think about.

This is a good solution and I can recommend it.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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CS
Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Check out HPE. They are well worth it.

It pretty much checks all the boxes that I have concerns about moving forward. This version will do dedupe better. We will start to use some of the data classifications where it tiers the storage for us. Of all the bubbles that I care about, it checks them all.

We don't use dedupe on our old 3PAR. We're hoping to use it on the new one.

We don't use InfoSight at the moment. It's something we're looking into, though.

I'm very happy with it. It has performed as I expected.

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RG
Coordinator at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

The performance is great. 

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it_user783909 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator Team Lead at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

What is most important to me in a vendor is that when I need them there, they're available.

I give it an eight out of 10 because of scalability.

HPE is a full solution, and they have a bigger scale for everything. You can build something cheaper when you combine companies, but there will be problems after a while with support and troubleshooting. Everybody will blame the other.

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it_user252609 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at Colonial Savings

It's a very reliable product. I would advise them to get it.

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it_user567576 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at Equra Health

I have heard of a solution called "Clear" or something like that. If you look at them, trolley-for-trolley, or pound for pound, I think that HPE 3PAR is probably the best system around.

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it_user471384 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would also evaluate others hard. We use Pure Storage in other areas a lot.

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HG
Director, Systems & Architecture at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Be extremely careful if you want to use the iSCSI feature of the 3PAR. It was not designed for it initially.

We were using low-end storage from HPE. I was hoping to get something a bit midrange in their storage, in terms of price with the reliability. I am still hoping that it will be reliable despite poor initial performance previously. As the problem was fixed, I am hopeful it would be reliable in the long run.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: We need something stable and reliable in the long run. Our contracts are at least five years, and they can be extended all of the way to seven to 10 years.

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CR
Director Technology Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Definitely learn the features of the product, what it takes to actually administer and manage it, what type of resource load is also required. It's not necessarily a tool that enables anyone who says, "Hey, we bought a SAN, go take it over." It really takes someone who has an understanding of and background in the tool, maybe even a little background with HPE. Just make sure you fully understand what you're getting into.

I would rate it a nine out of 10. We've been fairly satisfied with the product, we haven't had any issues. It's definitely not something that you can easily jump into without that initial set of knowledge to help you understand how to use the tool. From our perspective, the way we went into it was backward. We bought and then learned, instead of learned and then bought. That has been a part of our hurdle but, overall, it has been a good product.

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it_user683205 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at a university with 10,001+ employees

We're not fully pushing the envelope on it, but there are no complaints. Everything's good, the team has been good from the support to the setup to the post-support setup, to we've actually opened a ticket to do their firmware upgrade part. They gave us the plan and broke it down as to what they're going to do and when they're going to do it. Things have been good.

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it_user693831 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees

Don't buy either the oldest or the newest technology!

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it_user567990 - PeerSpot reviewer
Category Manager at a government with 501-1,000 employees

I suggest to sometimes be disruptive in the choice of storage solution and don't always focus on the continuity. Sometimes discontinuity may help. When picking a vendor, reliability is important. Stability is important as well, but in the matter of looking at the future.

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it_user567717 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Project Manager at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a global HPE agreement and it depends on the sort of size of projects and whether or not we issue and RFP when we got to other suppliers. If we do issue an RFP, then we're not tied internally to working with HPE. We can work with whoever we think's best for the requirement. But because we have such a good close working relationship with HPE and because they attend industry events, I'm always key to recommend to some of our peers and our colleagues around the world that they should be looking at this or that particular product.

3PAR's good from a medium-sized to large-sized enterprises. We're probably a large-sized enterprise company, but we have also small companies around the world where we wouldn't recommend the 3PAR for those sort of situations. We'd recommend applying a platform converged systems solution.

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it_user476301 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Data Centre Operations at MCAP

Really understand what your needs and requirements and future expectations are. Every vendor has a product that fits in the same market space, whether it be Dell, IBM or HP. I think it's really about what your long-term expectations and goals are. With 3PAR for example, if a lot of your underlying infrastructure is HP, it might make sense to go that way, to maintain that consistency. From a management an usability perspective, the full integration components, everything from your Blade, your Interconnects, your storage, your management platforms. Almost all the major vendors now are doing some form of deduplication, compression, storage tiering. I think it really comes down to knowing and understanding what you're looking for. Sometimes it's more of a business related decision and politics than it is an actual technical merit. I would say really understanding what your workloads are, what you're looking to get out of any investment that you make, and then taking it from there.

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it_user364521 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at Anadolu Medical Center

If it is a first time investment, it's no problem. If it's a migration, then you need to take care of the migration risks as well. There should be no data loss because migration is risky.

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it_user334911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Unix Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Work with your HP pre-sales people to determine which model of array will best satisfy your requirements. I've had very good relationships with all the HP technical and pre-sales that I have worked with over the years.

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it_user285333 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, IT Services at University of Auckland

It just depends on what your requirements are. You've got to match your requirements to the system you need. Very important, we do reference checks. We do make sure we get all our requirements. We do comparisons. We've got pretty strict procurement requirements and we stick to those.

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CC
Solution Architech at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

If you want to run this solution, I would say that this product is mostly dying from my point of view. If you're my customer, I would recommend not to buy a 3PAR because there are a lot of new products. I would recommend Nimble, depending on the size, or a Primera if they need a really big solution. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would give HPE 3PAR StoreServ a seven.

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PS
IT Infrastructure and Operational Lead at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees

This is a product that I do not recommend because it is too difficult for people to manage, and it should also be a little bit cheaper.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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GP
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Check the performance and every technical aspect that you can, as much as you can. Don't trust anyone else telling you otherwise. Test everything yourself.

The biggest lesson I've learned from using this solution is that having centralized storage is the right way to go and that sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected.

What every IT guy will tell you is that we disable the dedupe, mostly because of the hit on the performance. Regarding InfoSight predictive analytics, we tried to use it. It was not that predictive because it doesn't give as much information as we were told. We had actually turned it on and we had a few critical issues but we got no alerts from InfoSight regarding them.

It increased performance for a while, but then, as we grew, and we did not grow significantly, performance dropped down. For a few of our critical, online systems, we went back to using the physical disks and not the centralized storage.

It was supposed to improve throughput but it was not enough, not as much as we were told before we bought the product.

We have talked about using the flex-capacity offering, HPE GreenLake, but we haven't used it yet.

From our experience, I would rate low, but I don't want to rate it low because from a technical perspective, it's a stable solution, it works. I would give the product a seven out of ten, even though our experience has not been that good. A seven is fair at this point.

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DS
Infrastructure Analysts at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a great solution. There are others out there, but we have always been using 3PAR. We are pretty happy with it.

We are using the GreenLake Flex Capacity offering. At first, the service was great, because we had a configuration that was meeting our needs. However, when the issue came with Spectre, and then the L1TF vulnerability came out, those really affected us, so hopefully we will find a solution that meets our needs going forward. That is what we are looking at now.

We just started getting into InfoSight predictive analytics. It is something that I want to explore more, and something that I want to get going.

I can say that, "All-flash is the way that the future will be."

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MM
Assistance Administrator with 11-50 employees

It is a solid product. It works really well for our situation and what we need at a disaster recovery site. It is fairly simple to set up.

We do not use InfoSight.

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JP
Sr Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It's a very good solution. It doesn't come without some of its own quirks. We had a few struggles to get certain things working and HPE worked with us through them. Not everything was well-defined in the HPE White Papers. It definitely required working with HPE engineering and the solutions architects to get through that. That being said, the promise of what 3PAR was supposed to do for us, we were able to achieve that.

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it_user784065 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Our most important criterion when selecting a vendor is support. We're in the telephone sector, or carrier sector. If we have an outage it's going to impact millions of people. So sitting on hold for 15 minutes isn't acceptable, especially when it could mean 911 calls aren't being made. That's really key, we need to be able to get to someone who knows what they're talking about immediately. So far, we haven't had that huge of an issue with HPE hardware.

I give it an eight out of 10. Still extremely good. Way better than most. A couple rough edges that could be buffed out. We're about 90% of the way to where we want the solution to be. When we're there 100%, and we have it working exactly how we want it to, I think my score would be a little bit higher. 

I would tell a colleague who is looking at similar solutions that this is a worthwhile investment to look at, so long as you have the ability to test it appropriately and make sure that it works for your workload. Read through all the best practices, make sure that it will work for you before you try and do it, so you can actually give it a fair shot. But overall, give it a shot. I would recommend a proof of concept.

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it_user784023 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist

Go for 3PAR, straight away as I am very happy with this product.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: As a school, we always have low budgets. We are a nonprofit organization. We do not have too much budget, so we care about prices, discounts, and especially about the product quality. The last 16 years, we have been an HPE customer. We are very much happy with HPE products.

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it_user783981 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager

When it comes to selecting a vendor we're pretty much an HPE house. But I think the options you have to expand - within the storage space - you've got to have all those options. Especially performance. I think that's what we're looking for. And the support, as well.

It's an eight out of 10. It's pretty solid. We've had a few problems. But, from a performance point of view, our customers are very happy and so are we.

I'd take a serious look at it. I think 3PAR is a great product.

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PM
Infrastructure SME at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

This is just my initial view, but I'm going to give it eight out of 10. I need to do a lot more in-depth research into the product and how it's going to benefit Aldermore Bank.

Stick with what you know and rely on your instincts.

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it_user783984 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Engineer at Al Kamal

I think HPE is the best because of the after-sale support they provide. Not all companies provide that much support. I don't want to name any vendors on this, but some vendors, when you have a problem they will tell you, "Our engineer is not available," or "The product is not available," or "The part is not here, it will come in two weeks," and that sort of thing. But HPE support, I feel it is the one. Within four hours, the product is delivered. Within the next hour after product delivery, the engineer is available to support me.

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it_user567876 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System admin at Imeldaziekenhuis vzw

I would recommend this.

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it_user567777 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT System Engineer at Universitätsspital Zürich

Go and play. We have a lot of offices and backup sites so they can really get hands on. That's the benefit.

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it_user567732 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Turku PET Centre

We like the system, so I can suggest to a friend that 3PAR is okay.

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it_user567666 - PeerSpot reviewer
Connect Germany at Westfälische Wilhelms-University

In terms of choosing a vendor, there is a mix of capabilities. You need to find someone who is proven in the field, in general. But if you want to go for latest products, we bought a 7400 even before it was announced. There is nothing in the field. You have to have good partners with whom you can work and with whom you can speak. It only becomes apparent over the course of a project how well of a partner you chose. If you have a product where you spent several million Euros, there's nothing that will work on the first instance. There's not anything that will work, but there are some things that won't work on the first instance. Then every partner shines. You have to ask how they get these problems resolved.

We have been an HPE customer for over 20 years. HPE consistently delivered on target. They are always in a bidding process. They can never be sure where they will get the next project because they run against the Dells, the Lenovos, and all the others. You have to have the right portfolio, you have to have the right features, the right product, the right services around it, and you have to deliver it for the right price. That's basically it.

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it_user285357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It pretty much does almost everything we're looking for. I think they've got a good road map for the future.

Recommendations to peers - It really depends on what you need. If you're looking for something that can scale well and protect your data across multiple sites, we've got visibility into the performance metrics. That's the sort of stuff I'd look at. Do they have a vision for file and object based storage, is that coming? How does it integrate with back up products and archiving.

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ND
Information Technology Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

Recently we had an issue because we added some hard drives to HPE 3PAR StoreServ and we needed to upgrade the VMware to allow support by HPE 3PAR StoreServ hard drives.

We were discussing with our IT manager if we were going to stay with this solution or are we going to use another solution for a disaster recovery plan because we need a disaster recovery plan.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.

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EE
Senior project specialist at a security firm with 201-500 employees

I recommend this solution to others.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.

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CS
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees

Support is great. The hardware is great. Unfortunately, we are running on an older version.

I would recommend taking a look at it. I have been looking at the newer options and technology. Not much has changed with it, so the expectations are still there that it would be a solid choice for somebody else.

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CH
Tech Director Data Centers with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are happy with it. However, there is always room for improvement.

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DN
Engineering Services Manager at Muckleshoot

I recommend this system to everybody because it doesn't fail. I am just installing another one now.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor:

  • Good customer support
  • Good technical support
  • Price of the product
  • Advanced features of the system.

These were all deciding factors.

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JS
Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have fewer limitations, but there are still limitations that we have work though. Overall, it is a good solution.

We set out to do something very specific with this, and that's the stretch metro cluster. A single VMware cluster across two data centers acting as one, not a lot of people do it in the way that we did it. I am not sure I could advise somebody unless they were doing the exact same thing.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: Speed, scalability, and the ability to support a metro storage cluster environment.

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it_user784104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Analyst

If he has HPE servers, I would totally tell him go with HPE 3PAR. If he has another company's servers, I am not 100% sure about the compatibility with other products, but for management and for configuration, I would recommend 3PAR.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: 

  1. The integration with systems that we are going to use. For example, our server environment is HPE. The first that we think about is something compatible with this and easy to manage. That is why we choose HPE. 
  2. The performance and even their views. When you check those consultations, reports, HPE is ahead in leadership, in terms of storage.
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it_user783900 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cio

Because we are a university, it may be that our IT is more sensitive because the whole learning process depends on the IT services. So any problem, even for a short duration, would cause a big headache.

I give 3PAR an eight out of 10. I'm happy. We are happy. We cannot give it a perfect score because they need to improve more. We always we need to push them.

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it_user539658 - PeerSpot reviewer
Researcher

Everything works as expected but, as stated above, we are still in the process of migrating our data from our old storage.

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it_user680301 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Admin at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I say try it out. There are a lot of test drives of all their solutions. Look at the UI. See how well you can integrate with your existing systems and talk to the HPE guys. They are willing to show off all their technology and all their solutions.

We are very interested to see what HPE starts to offer in terms of integrated Nimble all-flash storage solutions. We’re also curious if HPE are going to introduce anything to augment an existing 3PAR system (ie; are they pluggable modules or expansion hardware that can take advantage of new Nimble-powered low latency, fast access flash storage?). And if they do have these types of solutions roadmapped, we are very interested in seeing what the average and peak theoretical transfer speed/access time improvements are!

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it_user567951 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I think that it's a more mature product now, so you’ll probably have a better experience; but certainly do your homework on your actual workloads and what you need. We initially got a solution which died all the time because we were trying to get too much output.

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it_user252639 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer - Storage and Virtualization at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

To pick a solution, we generally create a matrix and then fill in what we want out of the product. We pump in vendors and choose whoever meets the targets that we set. I would also advise that users follow best practices with the 3PAR.

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it_user469275 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Digital Officer, Director at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Think about the next 10 years, where are you heading. Personally, I say HPE's a pretty strong organization. They send the right messages, saying the right things. They seem like a very digital company which is all about customer, and that stuff matters to me, whereas some of the competitors, they don't have that mindset. Cisco definitely doesn't have that mindset. I really think long-term about. Sure, Cisco had a lot more features, but we didn't really need them. So, that made the decision easier. For me, when I think about HPE, think about longevity. You want to invest in technology, you're almost investing in the company.

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it_user362307 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Server Engineer/Service Owner at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Plan what the I/O needs are. You need better statistics before you buy something. Really plan to see what the loads are.

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it_user251226 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage, Virtualization, and DR Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were looking mainly for IOPS. We have a lot of SQL, so IOPS was important to us. We also wanted tiering to move things in-between tiers easily.

Come to the shows and get demos. Get your hands on it.

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it_user252639 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer - Storage and Virtualization at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is great and I haven’t had an issue.

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it_user231912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

It integrates very well with Windows 2012 as well as VMware.

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it_user229374 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Systems & Security Admin at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

Set time aside to go through the setup spreadsheet.

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HR
IT Manager at Maquinas Jacto

I give it a nine out of 10. 3PAR is very good, but not perfect.

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JD
Director at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

I rate this solution an eight out of 10 because administrative functionality requires five days of training.

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KB
Storage Service Architect at NNIT

Do some benchmarks on it and compare the requirements for whoever will be installing this product.

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it_user567747 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

When it comes to choosing a vendor, the primary criterion is support. When you have an issue, you need to immediately have a solution; it's a 24/7 application. For example, suppose we are going through patching, and something we don't anticipate comes up, I suddenly find an issue. I never saw that in my lower environments, and now production is impacted, so we create a severity-one ticket. How soon will it be resolved? can I trust it? That's number one. 

There may be some custom solutions we may be looking for that are not part of the product. Depending on what type of solution it is, we may need additional support. 

Also training. I think Oracle is growing fast. From '91 when I was with Oracle 6, I know how much it grew outside the databases. So training is one of the biggest issues that we are having. We moved from a Windows platform to a Linux platform, and also how to manage the entire thing. Enterprise Manager completely changed. So it is necessary to do some self-learning, but also vendor-provided training at a low-cost would help. Those are the things we are looking for. 

On top of that, there are certain things that would be of benefit. There is a new release coming in. If they can provide us with the documents, really help our DBA's to be on the cutting edge, rather than they themselves having to explore.

I didn't give it 10 out of 10 because there are still be a few issues that we are working on, but from a performance point of view, ease of use, scalability and reliability everybody is happy with the product.

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it_user679263 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Channel Manager at Portenntum

Of course, you should go for it. We are an HPE shop and we have to focus on that. We have to focus more on the competence and less on the financial considerations.

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it_user680190 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Admin at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Probably, you should purchase the CS700 all-in-one storage, so that it's easy to implement it that way. Don't try to do it yourself.

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it_user567984 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We needed to invest in a new solution because we moved out entire data centers.

I used to be at HPE, so we had to take HPE solutions. We are very confident with them. Now in the new company, we are going to set it up exactly as it was in HPE.

We made HPE come faster to the market with a solution that is market proven. We didn't want to have any additional risks.

If a colleague was looking for this or a similar solution, I would recommend they use it.

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it_user567900 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at Bolagsverket

If you want Sun or old fashioned good storage optimization technology, then 3PAR is very, very good.

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it_user567729 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at Turku PET Centre

All of the products with every vendor have their strong points. The strong point for HPE was that we had used HPE before. We were able to transform from the old system (EVA) to 3PAR, and that was the main reason at that time we switched. Now that we've been using it, we know a lot more.

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it_user568179 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage and Virtualisation Analyst at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'd say are the main two qualities vendor must have is good product and good technical support. Obviously, they must also have a reasonable price.

3PAR is reliable. Although it takes a little bit of time to get set up, once you get set up, it runs itself. The other nice thing about it is that, the 3PAR scales from small to large nicely. Not like other vendors where you have to have several solutions for different size environments.

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it_user367782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of ICT at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Spend as much as you can on HP support for the product. Don't rely on it being all in-house.

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it_user252609 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at Colonial Savings

Look for something that is expandable and reliable. 3PAR is great.

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it_user193209 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT-Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees

I can clearly see a trend of implementing a full flash array instead of the traditional 3PAR hybrid solution. Why? Well, the cost of SSD is dropping steady and the $/GB is less than FC disks when using deduplication, which is to this date, only applicable on SSD tier. You will not only have lower $/GB, you also significantly increase the performance, stability, and durability. For a smooth start-up, make sure you have done a valid assessment in your environment before implementing a new 3PAR. Read about the different software that 3PAR can offer your business.

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it_user229389 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect with 51-200 employees

Compare all vendors carefully as there are a lot of features that appear to be similar but in actuality are very different.

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it_user783987 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

The most important criteria when selecting a vendor are 

  • reliability 
  • availability of parts. 

I give an eight out of 10, from working with it and using the features, but also seeing what some of the other competitors have out there. One of the big ones is Pure Storage which I was a big fan of. So, they were the competitor to the 3PAR, as well as Nimble, which was obviously acquired.

It came down to costing as well, in the end. But to be fair to the 3PAR, it wasn't comparing like with like. It was comparing an all-flash array with a hybrid 3PAR array.

Try to decide quickly. Have your criteria and stick to your criteria, rather than trying ten million different solutions and taking years to implement. That was the biggest issue we had, the fact that there are so many different vendors out there. If you're trying to create a proof of concept, it just eats away at time. At the end of the day, there are a lot of nice things with the 3PAR that made us select it. Try not to waste too much time trying everything.

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it_user784014 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Of Infrastructure at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Because we are so happy with 3PAR, it's so reliable for us, for the moment we don't see any move to Nimble storage. It depends on the strategy from HPE. They will probably combine the two storage technologies; I don't know what will be the future.

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it_user783906 - PeerSpot reviewer
Procurement Management at Mubadala

When we look to work with a vendor we look at their reputation, and along with that is the way it can be scaled up. Also, the new technology innovations which can can be added to your portfolio must be excellent. That's where we started off moving into HPE.

At this stage I would rate it somewhere around eight out of 10, because there were some initial challenges in finalizing the design, etc. Now we are looking into the cloud solution as well, so we'll see how that goes.

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it_user680313 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Derive

I would definitely recommend it.

The reliability, scalability and support are the important criteria whilst selecting a vendor.

We've been with HPE for a long time and we'll stick with it.

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it_user680214 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Server Admin at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Go with it. It's a beast of a storage system. We love ours.

When looking for a vendor, the most important thing is support.

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it_user567840 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Rádio Renascença

If you buy 3PAR, you will have a good and stable solution for your business.

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it_user253332 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Information Technology I at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

When deciding on a storage vendor you need to look at IOPs and scalability.

I would recommend 3PAR; we tell everyone everyday. It beats Hitachi and EMC (Clarion) hands down. We would recommend them over all those solutions.

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it_user188622 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager / Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has a large basket of advanced features to integrate storage system into the service layer, good performance on provisioning and SAN service.

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it_user187794 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Midwest Cloud Consulting at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Whether you are new to storage or advanced, this is the most amazing piece of hardware I have ever had my hands on, built, and used. The thought behind much of the detail of how it works just seems incredible. Think about this, you have drives that sit in multiple RAID arrays because of the CPGs and how the SAN is always moving chunklets around to keep hot spots from occurring. If I could meet the founders and shake their hand, I would love to and let them know thank you. Thank you for giving me the chance to have fun with my job and have access to such hardware. I would also thank HP for taking a datacenter class piece of hardware and re-aligning it to be competitive in any space - just brilliant!

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Luciano Batalha - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at EVONICEVONIC

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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TC
Computer Systems Administrator at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution’s deduplication functionality is alright.

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GM
Manager Lab Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would recommend 3PAR or Nimble. Nimble is all-flash arrays, if you have the budget. Otherwise, we favor 3PAR, the 8000 and 10000 series.

I rate 3PAR at nine out of 10 because of the provisioning, the interface; and now there is InfoSight. We are planning to integrate all our arrays. I see that as valuable.

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SS
Data center team lead at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would definitely recommend evaluating it. Depending on what you need for your business, it could be a good fit.

It has been rather stable, other than the couple of hiccups that we've had. Once we've gotten through those, it has been rock solid for us.

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it_user784056 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager

We highly recommend HPE 3PAR, plus the latest other storage solution from Nimble, too. We highly recommend 3PAR to all our customers. We are replacing lot of other vendors (EMC, even Dell). We are replacing a lot of storage solutions with HPE 3PAR.  

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: I am a partner. Even though, we are partners with HPE, we are also partners with EMC Oracle, but we prefer HPE. With HPE, the support, reliability, and credibility are much higher than with any other products.

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it_user784035 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: stability. That I feel I can talk to the vendor and they understand what I want.

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it_user783960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer

When looking to work with a vendor I would look for manageability features. Monitoring, central monitoring, alerts, mass deployment, functionality. If you have one server, two servers fine, but if you have 100, these pay back easily.

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it_user783933 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I rate it about seven out of 10. It's not bad but it's also not the best. We had some issues, now they are resolved, but one issue existed for a year. We needed to migrate everything, and all the extra work needed to be done by our VMware colleagues, and they would not be so happy if we ask again to transform something.

Also some things were promised, like turning on/turning off dedupe and compression on the fly. But now it will create another one, compress, and then migrate it via the VMware tools. So we are really depending on vMotions. We wanted to remove the load from our VMware colleagues so that we could say, we will do the transformation to compress, you don't need to worry.

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it_user694674 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage specialist, Infrastructure Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees

I usually say look at the weak points in a system. 3PAR is great since it does most of what is boasts about in a good and mostly satisfying level. So the weak points in this system are quite high compared to a lot of other solutions. They tend to get good technology integration into the product, even though it sometimes takes a while. For instance, compression only came out now in the latest OS version.

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it_user680229 - PeerSpot reviewer
Wintel Engineer at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

This is a great product.

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it_user680250 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems administrator at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Read the best practices guides.

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it_user567699 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had nothing but a good experience over the last year. I would advise colleagues to go with HPE 3PAR.

The most important criterion when I choose a vendor is reliability. Reliability is very important to me. When there is an issue, I need to be able to count on the vendor.

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it_user568020 - PeerSpot reviewer
Bankprokurist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I have experience with HPE since 1996. I'm a member of "Connect". I know HPE better than I know IBM.

Some HPE solutions are very good. In terms of performance and digital equipment, they have very good knowledge in some types of IT.

HPE tries to be visionary, but I don't think they are. Perhaps they have the right products today, but the whole world is changing.

I could help a colleague who is making a decision by showing him our HPE solutions. I could explain what we have done and why.

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it_user368793 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're really happy with 3PAR as it performs very well despite a few failing discs, which is normal. Upgrades went well and we haven't had any outages. We'd recommend it to others.

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it_user229383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect - EMC at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This is a good, stable product, and management is pretty straightforward. For the price, it is a no brainer.

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IB
Professional Services Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are a reseller. 

Whether or not this solution would work for a company is all about the situation. If HPE could improve the level of the support or if the company has a certain level of support available to them (instead of relying on HPE), they can likely manage. It's a good idea to secure some spare parts in advance while making a deal. However, relying on the HPE SLA with the worry of indirect logistics is going to be a problem for a lot of companies when it takes so long to get parts. I

Our company has a contract with the client - not HPE. Therefore, it looks bad on us when we can't deliver on the parts or service when the fault lies on the HPE end. 

Overall, I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. It's not bad, however, there are significant areas that need to be improved upon. 

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GS
Data Center Operations at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We are happy with what we have in place. You should consider getting this solution if you are in the process of acquiring or switching. I would suggest giving this a good look.

The biggest lesson we have learned from using the solution is the stability. This is what I always tell people. The stability is what surprises us. It's a stable solution.

In terms of growth, we are planning on going from 35 terabytes to around 50 terabytes in the six months. We will probably keep using 3PAR but we may change to something better. We are here at HPE Discover 2019 looking for other solutions. If we cannot find something better we will continue using the same technology, the 3PAR.

I would rate 3PAR at eight out of ten because we love the stability but sometimes we still lack upgrades for the solution.

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it_user427308 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Manager

I would recommend this solution.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: Support is very important for us and the reaction time when we have a problem.

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it_user563436 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System Engineer

I would recommend this solution.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: 

  1. Support
  2. Widely used in the market.
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AJ
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an 8 out of 10  as a solution.

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JO
Snr Systems Enginee at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an eight out of ten.

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MK
Responsible for information processing at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate 3PAR a nine out of ten. The stability is the most important.

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MK
Responsible for information processing at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're just a customer. We don't have a business relationship with HPE.

I'd recommend the product to others. We've only ever had a good experience with it.

Overall, I would rate the solution nine out of ten.

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JL
Manager Of Storage And Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The performance is pretty good and the usability is excellent. The only thing which will downgrade it is the stability.

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it_user680211 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at CT Internacional

The solution is fast. I’m very excited about it. It's very easy to implement and manage.

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it_user253314 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer IV at a media company with 10,001+ employees

I would recommend the solution to anyone, but check into your environment.

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it_user253320 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Systems Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We look at cost and scalability. We’ve had room to grow as needed based on demand or business needs. We now have 1500 global users.

You should look at 3PAR as it's flexible, stable, and provides the growth and stability you need from a storage solution.

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it_user568167 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd

There are several important criteria when selecting a vendor:

  • quality of the products
  • the technology
  • cost of the solution, of course.

I would give it a seven out of 10, overall. 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.

In general, the solution is good.

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it_user684999 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at Syniverse

It's a good product. We like it so far and haven't been unhappy with it.

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it_user568101 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Serit IT Partner

I would advise colleagues to buy the flexible capacity that HPE provides with 3PAR.

When we selected HPE, our most important criterion is that they cooperate well with us.

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it_user227073 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior PreSale Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

3PAR made its success by scaling down enterprise systems to the mid-range level, which was not typical for the storage market. Although no one cares about inventing something cheap, HP did it with 3PAR and succeeded.

But my advice would to try it! It's cool.

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it_user187086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The product is definitely worth considering. As mentioned before, onsite support might be limited due to geographic location (only if you live in a very remote part of the planet) but generally the product satisfies most if not all business requirements. We are hoping to implement Flash storage. Flash storage is becoming more cost effective and the performance benefits are well documented when using flash storage.

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IE
System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is an older solution so if you're replacing, buy the new products like Primera and Nimble.

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

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ES
Service & Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The most important things are availability, scalability, reliability, stability, and performance. We are service providers, and the customers want availability. You must focus on these things before buying storage. I advise going for All-Flash Storage to all people because spinning disks take too much space and electricity and provide less performance. That's why NVMe is better.

I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a seven out of ten.

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it_user680334 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

They should buy it of course.

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it_user568047 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer Architect at PeerSpot

You need a good service contract. HPE has a solution called Datacenter Care. If you are a big, critical customer, then you should get this type of contract.

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it_user229377 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. San and Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's a very attractive product that is easy to use and deploy. This is due to its user friendly OS and console.

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it_user203880 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Do it, you will never look back. We're not currently using 3PAR flash storage, but definitely plan to in the future. 3PAR AFA is the class leader.

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CB
Assistant Manager of Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I would recommend 3PAR, especially in the financial industry where data is mission-critical. It's very good.

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it_user783918 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

When we look to work with a vendor we look for 

  • response to our calls
  • affordability 
  • that they have been in the market many years
  • the cost.

I rate it an eight out of 10 for the reasons I've already mentioned: the affordability, the speed.

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it_user306870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

You should use HPE installation, or at the very least, authorized partners. 

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it_user662934 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head - IT, Product Engineering & Service Delivery

Nowadays, we should look for software-defined storage rather than such OEM dependent products.

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it_user331356 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

Just to go for it if you need storage on site. If you need it in the cloud, there are other solutions tor that.

Problem with one of the disks in storage.

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it_user567591 - PeerSpot reviewer
Section Manager at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Look at the vendor’s support and the setup; the benefits. HPE is great.

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it_user215859 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead for Infrastructure at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Go for it, it's a good choice, unless it's too big/expensive for your needs.

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it_user229386 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

I would highly recommend working with HP directly during the installation process. We had the system up and running with production data one week after the equipment arrived.

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it_user225660 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Integrator - VMWare, Cisco, EMC & HP. with 501-1,000 employees

My advice would be to do the following:

  • Plan it properly
  • Implement it
  • Check it's working as it should be
  • Monitor it regularly
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AA
Technical Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.

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GA
Senior technical and storage expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I would recommend Hitachi over this solution. We plan to keep using this solution because it is useful for one or two of our projects.

I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a seven out of ten.

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it_user645615 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Jadeh Abrisham Rayaneh

I would recommend this product for sure.

At a minimum, I would rate this product at eight out of ten. 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. It's not anything to do with HPE, it's political issues.

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US
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you can afford it on-premise, and that is the way you want to go, then it is a good solution. 

Overall, it has been a good product, and it is stable.

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it_user694695 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Services Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Remember, the initial setup only covered the default configuration, you have to know what you need before you know which configuration settings suit you the best.

Hardening is another issue.

All the SSL options, default password, and cipher suite are other issues which we looked at very carefully.

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