HPE 3PAR StoreServ Pricing
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Dallas Widing
IT Manager at BouMatic LLC
For the entire six node cluster and the two 7200 units plus the Brocade Fibre switches, we financed it through HPE Financial. It was $850,000. We leased that and paid it off in October of 2018.
I have to renew support in October for the existing solution. That will cost me roughly $50,000 this year, which in the grand scheme of things, $50,000 is not that much compared to paying $850,000. However, it will be the last year that I'll be able to get direct support from HPE. Therefore, product has to be replaced in 2020.
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reviewer1751949
Independent consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The price of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is reasonable, but buying upgrade licenses are priced very high. There are additional fees.
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Sylvan
Works at renesas
Our organization pays a yearly license fee for the solution. The licensing fee is not cheap.
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StorageA404a
Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Since the prices of the flash storage has gone down tremendously, I would definitely recommend going for the all-flash storage array or 3PAR. It is a big expensive even now, but it will be the future of all industries.
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Syed-Hassan
General Manager IT at Chase Up
The support for the solution is free for three years, then it is an additional cost. It is approximately $30,000 annually. The price includes a lot of equipment we have not only HPE 3PAR StoreServ.
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Marty Riedling
Systems Engineer Manager at Ingles Markets, Incorporated
Our licensing costs are all lumped together with everything else, so I don't know the breakout.
View full review »The tool’s price is higher compared to other products. The solution is 20% more expensive than other storage.
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reviewer1409538
ICT Director KA Infra at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The price of the license depends. Some people expect more from the hardware. Some expect more from the licensing, and that is because you can receive several licenses nowadays, such as the terabyte license. You buy the storage, and you pay extra for the terabyte license for the software. There is a one-time purchase for the license and you pay annually for the maintenance.
View full review »Its price is a bit high for adding another tree, but when we purchased it, it was okay with us. We had compared it with EMC and other solutions, and it was okay at that point in time.
Our storage has a lifespan of seven to eight years. When you purchase it, you need to keep a headroom of around 40% to 50%. After three to four years, you generally plan for an upgrade. The price is not so bad today for two years or so, and within a year, I might find that I have to upgrade or increase the storage. This usually happens when there is a radical change or a new application has come that is consuming a lot of data, but generally, there is a plan for the amount of data that we generate and the storage upgrade.
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reviewer1337562
Sr, Storage Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is moderately priced. It's not the cheapest, nor is it the most expensive option.
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Mark Frenette
HPC Architect at Nuance Communications
You can find cheaper storage but you pay for performance. 3PARs performance has been consistent. I have seen other arrays slow down as the load increases due to controller saturation.
View full review »So in our high performance computing environments, we are I/O bound, which means that we process about two to three million files a second. In order to process that data that quickly, in the past we had to buy a lot of spindles, the traditional hard drives. With flash, we don't have to buy that many spindles anymore. We can save money by just buying the capacity, and the performance with flash is tremendous. And the device we're using for that is the HP 3PAR 7450.
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reviewer969309
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is quite difficult to decide on the cost. At one point, I was the project lead to cover with some people, but the price was important and we had its compression calculated. At that moment, it was fair because that was one of the things moving their product due to the cost of HPE 3PAR StoreServ as they were competing with Hitachi and IBM A9000, which I'm not sure if is still available.
We have done total cost of ownership calculations over the past five years, and we also ask for some cost prices for the sixth and seventh year so that we can get some insights into what happens after those five years. We have some systems that are five years old and we keep them because it's flash data storage. It's still almost a three terabyte solid-state drive, and the support cost is not that high. We'll have a look after that. I see other things happening on the Hitachi boxes with all those license defeats. This is also positive for HPE 3PAR StoreServ, everything is on the license. When we bought the systems, it was the case and then I've been reading something about it. You can buy the rest of the licenses. If you buy a system, that will not be replicated to another system, then you get a license without replication software.
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Peter Sachs
Storage Infrastructure Engineer at Cambridge Health Alliance
The licensing cost for HPE 3PAR StoreServ is expensive.
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Jeff Stone
Solutions Architect at Optio Data
I do not sell 3PAR all the time because it may not fit in with everything a client is trying to do. It is more about finding the right product for the solution.
It is lower in price as compared to other vendors, such as Dell. As compared to Huawei, all storage solutions are expensive, including this one.
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SushilKumar1
Security Officer at Videocon Intelligent Security Private Limited
There is a one-time cost once you purchase the solution. There is no perpetual licensing.
It is an expensive product.
View full review »The original setup was about $700,000 for the v400 and $350,000 for the 7400. The day to day cost is negligible in terms of support as they are really stable arrays.
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Tomas Stasek
Head of IT Department at Sonepar
This product is quite expensive and in addition, we subscribe to 24/7 support with a four-hour response time.
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SrEngine62c7
Sr. Engineer at a leisure / travel company
Give 3PAR a good consideration. Budget wise, 3PAR is a lot of money compared to other solutions, but what is in the 3PAR integration that customers are getting now from the Nimble and InfoSight acquisitions, it is worthwhile.
View full review »I rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten. It is expensive.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
The cost is reasonable given that the licensing is all included once you purchase it.
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Tye Summerville
IT Operations Manager at ACCC INSURANCE COMPANY
We had to go back and purchase iLO licenses and brocade switches for the flex fabric to have a complete solution.
View full review »HPE 3PAR StoreServ is an expensive solution.
View full review »The solution's price is reasonable.
View full review »This solution is expensive. We pay every year for support. It's a lump sum because we pay for data center support services, and everything is included in one.
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Directora818
Director of North America at a sports company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We do not have any licensing fees.
View full review »It is reasonable. As compared to other solutions, it doesn't seem to be much different.
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Helder Valente
Infrastructure and Networks at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We don't pay for any licensing fees.
View full review »Pricing and licensing depend on the customer/partner deals and negotiations/agreements.
View full review »Always purchase at the financial year end of the vendor to obtain the best pricing, and also purchase the maintenance in advance. I purchased it with five years maintenance included.
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reviewer281076
Director of Technology Services at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
We purchased the total package for approximately $60,000. That was purchasing it outright.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
If HPE reduced the price of 3PAR StoreServ they would be more attractive to mid-range companies.
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Leonardo Amarello
System Engineer at GEBE
Our licensing cost are $32,000 annually.
View full review »Remember, you are charged per disk with a 3PAR array for licensing. Make note of this when considering future capacity. A smaller number of higher capacity SSDs can be less expensive than multiple smaller capacity disks.
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VijayKumar20
GM at SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant
This product is a little bit costly, although this is because it is a high-quality product.
There was a one-time cost when we procured this product and there are no monthly or yearly licensing fees.
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Tomas Stasek
Head of IT Department at Sonepar
We paid for five years of support when we purchased the product.
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Brian-Earnst
Enterprise Architect at Blessing Hospital School of Medical Laboratory Technology
Purchasing maintenance: You can't get software maintenance from a third party. You have to do it from HPE, which is a letdown.
View full review »STAY AWAY. They will give you a book for an invoicing quote.
View full review »It's a very expensive solution.
View full review »Original cost was about $2 million. Day to day, it's just the cost of the power to run the hardware.
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Pavan Divakar
GIDC India - Architecture Design and Engineering Leader at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The costs can be lowered. They're a little more expensive, especially on the support side of it. Even with us being that kind of partner, and getting discounted prices, it's still a little expensive.
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RajeshSrinivasan
Director at HCL Technologies
Cost-wise, it is a little bit on the higher side, but it is an awesome product.
View full review »The solution has two parts: software and hardware, and you need to buy licenses for some features.
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teamlead968247
Team Leader Presales at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
It's a very expensive product. Companies need to be aware of that going in.
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Emir Erkara
IT Coordinator at HMY
We pay a yearly license. It's affordable.
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Cindy Cecutti
Director IT at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
This licensing fees for this solution are merged with all of our HP annual costs, which in total are a couple hundred thousand dollars.
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ITManage04a2
IT Manager at a energy/utilities company
Think seriously about the very long-term: the three, four, and five-year costs of the solution. Will it still be there doing what your company needs? Do not just look at the initial capital outlay of year one.
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AhsanulHaque
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
I'm not sure on the pricing of this product because a different team handled that. I'm on the engineering team, so I handle the maintenance and those sorts of operations.
View full review »HPE is changing on the licensing way, because in the past, you had to apply for a license for everything. Now, they have made a combo for all the licenses, which is more helpful, but there are a few things which are not completely included in the product. Talking from a license point of view, to be more competitive, as customer, we need a more aggressive price that includes all the licenses available.
View full review »The original cost for two storage devices, was around US$200,000. Both devices have been in production for a year now, and we have not changed a part of it starting from the physical disks. It just works! As for other costs, it consumes about 1KW of energy.
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reviewer372459
Sr. Manager - IT Systems at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
We're using it as a SaaS. The pricing is reasonable. It's not cheap, however, I don't consider it to be overpriced.
We have an annual support contract. It will contain a certain percentage of the storage cost.
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NetworkM17fa
Network Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
It is a little more money, but it is worth it because it does it better.
View full review »I don't have an idea of actual numbers, but I do remember at a high-level meeting, stating that a three year lease, including hardware support, would cost us about as much as we were then paying for support for the six EVAs that we owned.
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Wes Wimpey
Systems Architect at Greenville Health Systems
My recommendation would be to engage professional services, if you have questions. We sat down and went through a very extensive (six to eight month) evaluation from the components. We visited some labs and other sites.
Take advantage of what HPE offers as far as professional services, and this will help you make the right decision.
View full review »Nowadays, from a storage point of view, there are so many vendors in the market. So cost is one of the factors that pushed us to go with HPE 3PAR. Cost-wise they're pretty competitive.
View full review »For the price you pay, there are far better products out there.
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reviewer1021158
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The SSD is a little bit expensive.
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SystemsE33b6
Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like it to be cheaper.
View full review »Licensing the features that we use was not overly complex to get worked out, and HP was very helpful in providing details on the features we needed to provide the functions we needed, which was primarily the synchronous replication between our sites.
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reviewer1585665
Solution Architech at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
It's a good price.
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reviewer1446966
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We purchased the solution as CapEx and we only pay support now. I find the pricing fantastic.
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reviewer1468128
IT Infrastructure and Operational Lead at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
This is not an expensive product but every time you add capacity to it, you need to pay for re-balancing.
View full review »I can say that one can realize very nice discounts if the order is placed towards the end of the calendar year, as that coincides with HPs fiscal end of year. Licensing for some features can be quite expensive, so one should take care to fully vet out which features should be licensed. Don’t let the sales team oversell licensing and make sure that the installation plan is fully understood.
View full review »The new licensing model includes every function for the same price, and in terms of price, everything is possible if HPE is interested in getting the contract.
View full review »I think the license structure is quite transparent and fair.
View full review »Wait for the right opportunity as HP tends to do “3PAR bundles”. They bundle 3PAR storage and software licenses at a great discount, so never accept the listing price for a 3PAR, but that goes without saying.
View full review »The product seemed to be too cheap when compared to replacing our existing SAN. Therefore, we were hesitant at the features and performance offered. I believe we spent around C$80k for the system. Maintenance and proactive support was included, so day to day costs are really only power.
View full review »Speak with HPE and describe your whole scenario before buying it, so you do not buy and hope.
View full review »The system just went to an all-inclusive license model.
View full review »The pricing is fair, but you have to pay for every little feature, which is something I really dislike about HP. You buy the software, then the hardware, then the OS license, then if you want more, you have to pay more just to put your data on it.
For example, if you want to replicate data, you have to get the replication license. You can't just replicate data and I can't always get budget approved to do that.
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reviewer1388748
Professional Services Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The pricing is expensive. I'm not sure if it's the region that causes such high prices, however, when we are bidding, we rarely get very good discounts to work with. It's not competitive.
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reviewer1471356
Service & Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It is a bit more expensive. IBM is cheaper than HPE in Turkey.
View full review »The price is not too high.
View full review »Prices are flexible and one should negotiate hard before taking a final call.
View full review »Current licensing model is good. Future users can optimize by buying the best suited model for their needs and future growth plans.
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reviewer1386717
Technical Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The price of the solution could be reduced for the license and for support.
View full review »Always bargain with your local HPE account manager, the price could go down a lot if you know how to negotiate with them. For example, it could help if you tell them you have another brand of product on hand and it cost less than HPE, then they would likely offer you a huge discount for their product.
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