HPE 3PAR StoreServ Room for Improvement
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Dallas Widing
IT Manager at BouMatic LLC
One of the things I like about the Microsoft operating systems are Microsoft's built-in backups. It's not elegant nor real pretty, but it just works for a single server or single VM. What I would really like to see from HPE is backup built-in, not snapshots nor replaying snapshots, but true block or file level backups integrated into an HPE platform program.
Today, I'm using StorageCraft, where I can have a VM recovered in 15 to 20 minutes. I run a continuous restore point on three of my primary domain controllers. I run a continuous restore point against my primary Microsoft SQL server. So, I always have that continuous, but it's taking up so much storage space that I keep running out and having to add. I need something better, as I've been doing this for a long time. Maybe having Arcserve Backup or Seagate Backup Exec more integrated into the hardware solution.
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reviewer1751949
Independent consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
HPE 3PAR StoreServ could have better integration into the cloud and converged infrastructure.
View full review »HPE could improve by raising awareness when a new product is launched. They must think of ways to better serve and engage with their enterprise customers. HPE is selling enterprise products and mission-critical support.
This is not a one-time sale, and then it's over. They need to maintain a relationship with their customer over the life of the product, which is typically four or five years.
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Sylvan
Works at renesas
HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity. Also, the setup is complicated.
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StorageA404a
Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We need additional enhancements to InfoSight, especially from a VM standpoint. Today, we can see in the Azure VM performance stats in 3PAR, but it is so huge, we can't just drill down on each and every VM and look at its performance. We want to add rates of performance issues from VM points of time frame. Therefore, we can look, for example at 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, and see how the VMs performed. That particularly feature is not there today in InfoSight.
We are also seeing that there are some enhancements which are required in the SSMC console. There are some features that we do not see in the dashboard. E.g., if the 3PAR is not completely healthy because the remote copy helps are not performing, the dashboard will show all green, so there are some additional enhancements required.
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Syed-Hassan
General Manager IT at Chase Up
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is at its end of life and they are forcing us to purchase new hardware. They will no longer support this solution. They should provide support for a longer time. For example, 10 years instead of five years.
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SanAndStd11c
SAN and Storage Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users. No node reboots, those types of things are the next feature set I would like to see.
View full review »Support has gone down a little bit in the past few years. It's hard to get the right person initially and sometimes you have to wait for a call back. It was better when it was 3PAR.
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reviewer1409538
ICT Director KA Infra at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The performance of the solution is not good anymore and the software is different from all the other types and is not compatible. There are more negative things at this moment than positive. This is why we are removing them all from our organization this year.
View full review »Its price is a bit high for adding another tree.
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reviewer1337562
Sr, Storage Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence.
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Mark Frenette
HPC Architect at Nuance Communications
It is more specific to High Performance Computing, but I would like to see a faster Ethernet connection. Right now, it is 10G. If they could do multiple hundred gigs to speed up the transfer from the array to the servers, that would be good. We are trying to get away from Fibre Channel.
View full review »So one of the topics we always discuss with the 3PAR engineering team is the ability to have 3PAR run on standard hardware. Pretty much software-defined storage. That would be a really nice feature for us, because we always are trying to get the workload as close as possible to the CPUs. And in order to do that, you have to go software-defined.
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reviewer969309
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
HPE 3PAR StoreServ has limited flexibility in building replication solutions. There are limitations to the number of IOPS the system can do. It's not bad as it is doing its job. However, for the application, if you need a toolbox, you can build everything concerning periodic replication modes of synchronous or asynchronous three-site, four-site, with supported cascading which requires you to buy an IBM product.
It also takes a few hours to one day to upgrade the system and sometimes; it takes more time because, in some HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20000 Storage, you have an eight-node system. If you do an upgrade, you do it node by node and every node might take more than an hour.
View full review »Integration with some cloud services would be nice. That's not so much of a 3PAR thing, it's more of an HPE dashboard and management platform. The 3PAR is also a part of it. We would like to be able to provision from the 3PAR and decide whether or not we are going to provision onsite or the cloud.
And something that I know that they're already bringing in is cloud-based analytics, which they are bringing in from their acquisition of Nimble. When that comes to 3PAR, that is going to be a game changer for us, that predictive analysis.
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Peter Sachs
Storage Infrastructure Engineer at Cambridge Health Alliance
The configuration and flexibility should improve.
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Jeff Stone
Solutions Architect at Optio Data
Some people are talking about getting NVMe drives in with faster flash. However, I think that is on the roadmap. I was at Aspire this year, and they were talking about the next chassis and they are ready for it. It is just a matter of getting them in.
Feature-wise, with the InfoSight additions, there is a lot of the stuff missing in the intelligent interface. As they grow and push, a lot of it will not tie into Hyper-V. I have a lot of clients with Hyper V, so having that put into InfoSight because I have a lot of clients who run half-and-half or a lot on Hyper-V, especially a lot of schools with public domains. There has been a shift more to Hyper V because the features are really good now, and getting those analytics would really help.
With OneView, there are some challenges. When I set up the Peer Persistence, it is very hard to manage zoning from OneView for arrays. We have eight 3PARs out there right now, and we do all our zoning outside of OneView, which is the opposite of what they say to do.
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ITmanager10038
Senior IT Infrastructure & Data Center Operation Engineer at Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Egypt
File Persona can be better. I don't use File Persona because it has many problems with my environment. The antivirus that it has is not compatible with File Persona, and that's a big issue with File Persona.
3PAR is not as good as Dell when making a file in the storage. 3PAR for a block is very good, but when comparing row capacity, I get 14% capacity with 3PAR, but with Dell, I get 60% capacity.
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Dwayne Vidi
Director of Technology at a university
In terms of features I'd like to see, I have been hearing a lot about InfoSight with the 3PAR, here at HPE Discover 2018. I'd be curious to see some of the additions that will bring to the system. We're fairly up to date, so we should easily be able to utilize some of it, once it's available. I know that came from the Nimble platform, so they are still integrating it in.
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SushilKumar1
Security Officer at Videocon Intelligent Security Private Limited
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Solution7c6e
Solutions Architect
I would like to see the ability to be able to migrate to newer versions of the 3PAR without having to take any of our data offline and be able to upgrade on the fly. That would be a great feature.
The controllers are going to age out, then eventually they will need new controllers. If we could upgrade those controllers live without interruption, that would be great.
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Tony Rigby
CTO for Microsoft & Infrastructure Platforms at Amey
It needs to provide better customer visibility of what's going on. For example, having access to a customer's ticketing system if only on a real-time, read-only basis could be a perspective that's extremely helpful. It's important that we have clear and open lines of communications with our customers, and 3PAR doesn't provide that yet to meet our needs.
View full review »Licensing is still a pain point. It has gotten better, as any spindle count based licensing is capped at a certain number of spindles depending on the model of the array, but it is still expensive as you must buy every feature. Many of the arrays available from competitors come with just one or two licenses to buy which cover the entire array no matter the spindle count. The arrays are also not very user serviceable, which is something I miss about the EVA. A field tech must come out to replace a drive which is something I could do myself with the EVA.
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Tomas Stasek
Head of IT Department at Sonepar
The price of this solution should be lower.
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reviewer1473348
SAN Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
HP has several integration elements that work with other vendor storage products. I'd like to see a greater expansion on that so that a customer can do a more seamless migration from other vendor products. The migration of data to their platform could be better.
Primarily they don't have a lot. They have several EMC elements that they can migrate data from, however, there are many more controllers out there and it'd be good to see a more seamless integration so that that could occur.
I'd like to see 3PAR have some integration with Cloud services.
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SystemsAd3f7
Systems And Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to see the following:
- NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel.
- More advanced copy features.
- A few user improvements on their SSMC product.
- Mesh-Active, which I hear is coming.
One improvement that they could do right now is with the way they do their metric clustering. With Peer Persistence, they use a Lua. It would be really nice to have a volume that is truly Active-Active in both of our data centers.
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SrEngine62c7
Sr. Engineer at a leisure / travel company
I would like more integration with OneView. I would also like to be able to deploy and manage 3PAR within OneView Global Dashboard so we do not have to use the interface for 3PAR. Overall, I would like more integration, which I think is coming.
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WayneCross
Director IT at Borden Ladner
As it is, it does its job very well, so it's very difficult for me to say what we should be looking for in the next platform. I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today.
View full review »HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
The cloud-based monitoring Infosight would be better if users are automatically enrolled in the cloud/group based on the configuration or information gathered or uploaded on the internet.
The auto-discovery of the system is not easy for first-time users.
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Tye Summerville
IT Operations Manager at ACCC INSURANCE COMPANY
What appeals to me is having mobile functionality. There is a vendor portal for 3PAR for whatever you want to purchase. I would like to see something from an administrator's standpoint, as opposed to having to go to a web browser, where you get a ping on your phone which says, "Your license is coming up for renewal," or, "You have a drive that is bad," in conjunction with stuff, such as InfoSight.
This is something which provides value back to me, because then I am not having to constantly babysit my vendors and say, "When do I have renewals coming due?" It is tough to get vendors who engage with you on that level. They go back and say, "Just a heads up, but these are what are coming due." Maybe they can backfill that with a mobile app.
My admins like having this functionality and direct integration, where it is like, "I need to do this, this, and this." If they could do it all from their phone that would be better. Though, sometimes it is tough, because of tiny phones, and all there is to use is a web browser. It can be hard to read on a smaller screen. If it is a mobile app, maybe it could be finessed into something where basic tasks could be done.
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ProjectD7fc0
Project Development Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to see them lower costs.
It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices. I believe at the moment we have third-level NAND load-leveling in place. I know these devices are around the corner. In the not too distant future, they should add these types of drives in there. That will give us much faster access. Hopefully, in time, we will replace the spinning hard drives with SSDs only, and the different types of SSDs.
View full review »The solution’s customer support could be improved.
View full review »They should add AI-enabled dashboards to the solution.
View full review »The tool needs improvement in the utilization report at the granular level.
View full review »We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas.
The alerting system could also be improved. If there are issues with the system, it's supposed to send emails and SMS alerts — this could be improved.
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Directora818
Director of North America at a sports company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We had a minor error when we were configuring this system, which initially detracted from its overall stability.
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NetworkAd9ed
Network Admin at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
I would like an easier user interface and setup to help with deployment. There were many areas of the setup where I was like, “Why don't we do it this way?” Therefore, some of the things in the user interface could have been more refined, so you don't have to click in 5000 different places to accomplish one goal. Less clicks means more efficiency.
I feel like there is a big training gap. Obviously, the HPE engineers know all about the product and can come in and do the setup with ease. However, once they hand off the product to the in-house IT group, there might be a learning gap there. E.g,, I have to call them now every time I have a problem.
I feel like they should've spent more time with us. They were only onsite for two days, and I feel like there should be more outside training to explain how to use the product.
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SrStorag7e72
Sr. Storage Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities. They do have that now, but we haven't started using it.
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VirtualizationSysAdmin415
Virtualization Systems Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees
What I would like to see the SSMC management interface and the regular, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) interface. I would have to use both, because one of them has features, the other one does not, and vice versa.
View full review »The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected.
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Helder Valente
Infrastructure and Networks at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Currently, we are finishing the possible quotation to upgrade the 3PAR we have here in Portugal.
It's a case of obsolescence. Since we have had the machine for four years we must remove the old one to put in the new one.
I would like to see more storage, a better interface, and to move from mechanical disks.
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SystemsM2aeb
Systems Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Nothing really comes to mind. We talked to somebody earlier today, here at HPE Discover 2018, about their Docker integration for it, so that's something we'll probably check out next for both the 3PAR and Nimble.
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Jose Newman
IT Architect at Oncor Electric Delivery
We have seen one area, where we have highly virtualized Solaris instances, where we're getting into the queue depth, so we probably need to do some work in the queue-depth area in the arrays. I'm not sure if its specific to Solaris, because we haven't encountered it on other platforms but, then again, on some of our largest Solaris frames, we are running several hundred virtual containers and we see the queue-depth issue there.
View full review »They have released a unified version of HP 3PAR, with a separate NAS server unit in the enclosure/rack. I would like to see a proper unified system (same controller serving both SAN and NAS solutions) such as NetApp offers.
View full review »Better user interface compared to the current PC installed client. A browser based solution was introduced recently and improvements were noticeable.
View full review »We are planning to change the storage soon. The tool is old. We are looking for enterprise-grade storage with NVMe capabilities, low latency, and higher responses.
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reviewer281076
Director of Technology Services at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
The interface could be improved to match the system.
The initial setup could be simplified.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
HPE could improve by making an old flash system in order to compete with the current market. For the solution to be more competitive in the mid-range market they could increase the performance.
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Leonardo Amarello
System Engineer at GEBE
I would like the documentation easy to find. There is a lot of documentation, but sometimes it is hard to find. You have to do a lot of searching to find it.
Before you could go on the HPE website, and download every driver that you wanted. Now, you need to have a service contract, or something else, to be able to get the drivers. Sometimes, you just need a simple driver, because your machine needs to restart and reinstall. If the machine is not under warranty anymore, it's hard to get the driver. That is a setback when compared to other solutions.
We are in the Caribbean, but we are Sint Maarten. Sint Maarten is French and Dutch. We are on the Dutch side. We speak Dutch and English, but because we are in the Caribbean, the way the system is set up with HPE in Latin America, a lot of times when we contact support, we get a Spanish-speaking people instead of an English-speaking people. I find that is a problem. When we are dealing with support to send somebody over, for example, we make sure to always put the emphasis on, "Make sure you send somebody who is English-speaking to us."
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Principa0182
Principal Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature. They have to get it right all the time, not just the first time.
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Philip Sellers
Solutions Engineer at AmWINS Group, Inc.
My 3PAR array is too old to support File Persona, and I would love to be able to do that, but that's something that we would need more powerful controllers. We've got the first generation, so at some point we will get it, but we've got to wait for a refresh cycle.
View full review »I would really love to see HPE add some cloud analytics. So many other Tier 1 SAN vendors have enhanced cloud analytics and flashy visuals. While HPE has the StoreFront and it is better than nothing whatsoever, other competition offered “shiny” reporting and analytics engines.
View full review »I'm happy for the moment. But I would like to see them implement the new types of RAM; the NVRAM that is being used in the server environment. This would make storage quite a bit faster. It's not slow, but it could always be faster. Maybe this can also be available partially in a storage environment.
For example, if you have a DSQL server or something similar. Most companies have the lock database on the local server. In our case, we have everything on the 3PAR and it would make sense to have faster storage. We would like to see some innovation. There's room for improvement.
View full review »It would be nice to see reporting around percent of utilization on the performance side. It tells you what you're doing in the reporting but I would like to know what my array's capable of, versus what I'm using.
View full review »3PAR has everything that I’m interested in. I come from a storage background, and everything that I want to see is there. I don’t really have anything pressing to suggest, but nothing is perfect.
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VijayKumar20
GM at SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant
There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered.
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Tomas Stasek
Head of IT Department at Sonepar
The price is a little bit high.
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Infrastr6155
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyperconverged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR.
I would like to see some of the InfoSight integration. In the speech today, here at HPE Discover 2018, it was pretty clear that that is where it's heading.
I think it's on track, on the whole, as far as where we're going. I'm probably two years away, maybe less, from a 3PAR purchase. LIkely, by the time I'm ready to buy, it's going to be in there.
View full review »Small companies are interested in simplicity and a very granular licensing model is something that poses a number of challenges.
From the cost perspective, (usually this licensing model is geared towards revenue generating…) it makes it expensive but also from the admin point of view it ends up being cumbersome and difficult to manage. We had a number of issues when ordering an upgrade to existing array due to this licensing model.
Using a small number of bundles or just a single licensing model (like Nimble for example) will make the product more appealing and simplify the process of organizing an upgrade.
I don’t know, I think as we scale I’d like to implement replication features. We haven’t been able to test those out yet ‘cause we only have one unit but no, all-in-all I’m pretty happy with the UI.
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Brian-Earnst
Enterprise Architect at Blessing Hospital School of Medical Laboratory Technology
A lot of tasks, you have to manually set up. They need to already have them set up and working. Then, you can just go in and tweak them if you need to. There are a lot of things that we did not know that we needed to schedule and make happen, and that is what we found out six months ago.
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Steve Davidek
IT Manager at City Of Sparks
In the next release, I would like them to make it a little easier to find where everything is in the new console. It now has the OneView look and sometimes I don't think the OneView look is enough. It's too different from the original console that was a separate system. I haven't totally learned it. I knew where everything was, and now I think to myself, "Why do I have to go there? It doesn't logically make sense."
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UnixAdmi6d0e
Unix Admin at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'd really it to be able to interact with older 3PAR storage, and possibly even non-HPE. I would like to be able to pull stuff off of old things and bring it up to the standard that has been set, simply, quickly, and efficiently. That would be a really nice feature. Right now it is a big pain. It seems to work but we tend to get some latency behind. It seems it could be better.
View full review »I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice.
Also, the features that we are seeing in Simplivity, if integrated with the 3PAR, would be much better.
As far as what I do with it, I don't have any additional needs from the system. It is doing exactly what we need it to do. To make it even better, it could be faster.
View full review »Only room for improvement would be to just abandon this product line and start with another.
View full review »There's a lot of stuff you can do with the 3PAR. Right now, we're using it for what it's mainly designed for - the provision storage. I'm still looking into all the other features like Deduplication and Flash Cache.
If we see that deduplication can fit into our infrastructure, and if it will benefit the company, then we'd definitely look into that option. It would be nice to have it as a core feature included in the product initially at no extra cost.
View full review »It needs to be cheaper.
View full review »Oh, that's a great question. I would consider having better integration with VMware. It's on a license basis and VMware does communicate with the SAN, but right now the capabilities are only that it shows you what the deduplication savings is or what the thin provisioning savings is. It doesn't actually show you on a volume level what you can do, how many extra VMs you can get on there for example. If we're only using 20% of the available storage, it still sees like it's full. I would like to see a better integration of that. We actually had a bunch of different solutions. I wouldn't say that we had any specific one. Well, storage is about performance for a lot of people.
View full review »Actually, during our migration we had a very choreographed timed execution of needing to transform virtual volumes from one level, from one tier to the next. AO wasn't necessarily getting us there. It would need to see and predict, and these were ad hoc, one off, it's going to happen this one time workload, and never happen again. And so one of the things that's been thrown out is, hey, could you all give us some ability to actually choreograph that, to actually be able to lay it out and then trigger it fly by wire in a way, but have it pre-laid out.
View full review »I would like to see a little bit more of automated reporting. As an IT director, I would like to get a better view, high level view of how the environment is performing instead of having to go and ask my guys. That would be my only future request.
View full review »I'd like to see the system reporter improve. With the reporting feature, I’d like a little more versatility in how I get my reports. The 3PAR just runs and nobody complains, but I’d like to see what the warnings the reporting gives me actually means. I would like that feature to be enhanced more to get rid of more false positives errors. Also, the drive replacement on the 10800 needs improvement. It’s a magazine that has four drives, and to replace one drive, I wish they would not spin down all of the drives just to replace one. It makes me a bit nervous when they do that to replace a failed drive.
View full review »Firmware stability could be improved. Apart from that I can't think of anything else.
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Pavan Divakar
GIDC India - Architecture Design and Engineering Leader at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution should have a smaller footprint. It's large compared to, say, something like Pure Storage, which is a lot smaller.
3PAR is not as fast as Pure Storage. That's something that 3PAR needs to look at.
They need to look at the frequent breakdowns. It's not as lag-free as some of the other HPE Arrays, the enterprise flash arrays. That's something that HPE needs to look at.
The pricing could be lowered.
In the future, I'd like to see it being controlled more from the cloud itself.
The solution lacks reliability. This aspect has gone down in the last few years.
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David Barrientos
IT Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
This solution should be easier to use.
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IctCounte381
ICT Country Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The solution should have better integration with legacy systems.
We would like memory-driven performance on the storage.
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Julie Imoto
Engineering Manager at Leidos Holdings Inc.
We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped.
We will be having sidebar conversations with them later today, here at HPE Discover 2019, to talk about some of the possibilities that we're looking at.
Going forward, we're looking for bigger capacity and drives, which I know they're looking at. We want them to ensure the speed and reliability because keeping those systems up and running, 24/7, is important to us.
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RajeshSrinivasan
Director at HCL Technologies
The following need to be improved:
- The ability to contact the correct HPE resource to give you the right product.
- We had to undergo at least two or three iterations before we finalized a product which fit. This took time.
- The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability. They are possibly all busy, or maybe at the headquarters less. I don't know the reason, but this happens every time we have to burn the midnight oil to get some solution out and running.
- 3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity.
- It needs more array support.
- It needs to be more data-driven.
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GlobalMa4cee
Global manager, servers and storage at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
I know that the reporting functionality is changing. It's going to be much better and that's something that we're looking forward to.
I would like to see more flexibility with the cloud. I've actually just been in a presentation about it, here at HPE Discover 2018, so those features are coming.
It's still an older architecture, you've got a lot of physical spinning disks. I would imagine more the memory-based computing is coming.
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Steve Davidek
IT Manager at City Of Sparks
All of a sudden something didn't work. We've never had downtime where data wasn't available, because it's got multiple ways of staying up. It doesn't usually go down. But we've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades.
View full review »There's nothing at the moment. Everyone is pretty happy.
View full review »Maybe they could have better alerting. We've had an issue where we had a flapping network link, and it didn't tell us that was happening. We only saw symptoms of the issue. I'd like to see better reporting for those types of issues. Even though the support is better than NetApp was, there are still some improvements they could make in their support.
View full review »We rely on WORM, so some sort of WORM feature would be good. We have to use other platforms for that. It would be nice to have that on the table right here.
View full review »The solution’s stability could be improved.
View full review »The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly.
View full review »The tool has low storage and low performance. This can be solved by adding more disco to the solution. The product’s pricing is also suited for enterprise businesses rather than smaller ones.I would like to see better performance, UI, and compatibility with other products in future releases.
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teamlead968247
Team Leader Presales at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The product is quite expensive. The costs involved are high.
We would like the product to make it more of a straightforward procedure when we need to configure storage. There were quite a lot of options and parameters that we don't have knowledge of. We used some external company to make the configuration for us, for the 3PAR storage.
From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us.
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Cindy Cecutti
Director IT at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
This solution is becoming dated.
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ITManage04a2
IT Manager at a energy/utilities company
We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly.
The upgrade in the firmware and software need improvement.
The user interface is still a little kludgy.
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ManagerD1d2a
Manager, Data Center at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees
We would like to see smoother firmware upgrades going forward. We cannot afford to go down. When we went down, it was very painful for all our mission critical system. When we bought the system, we were under the impression that we were supposed to do firmware upgrades transparently, and on the fly with no impact, and it was very impacting. However, this is the only time that we had any issues.
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MarioSolano
VP Infrastructure at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees
The interface to manage it could be improved. I was looking at OneView. Something basic like that should be available with the 3PAR. OneView has all the bells and whistles, all the features, but I think something basic and similar to that should be come with the 3PAR, at least for monitoring managing it.
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Scott Samowitz
Director Of Information Technology at Jacobsen Construction Company, Inc.
I haven't really thought about what a future release should contain. We've liked what 3PAR has so far.
View full review »There is a need for just cleaning up the administration page a little more and making it a little faster. We'd like to see a little more preemptive alerts for the usage and spikes.
View full review »I suppose I’d like to see more security in terms of encryption on the device without it impacting performance. For all I know, that might exist. It’s something occasionally we get asked for. Our understanding has been that there are challenges around introducing inline encryption to a storage system because it increases the performance overhead.
Initially, some years ago, it missed a few important features. Until reasonably recently, one feature that was missing was the asynchronous real-time replication. In the last year or so, that's been introduced. I think that's taken too long. That was a little bit of a step back.
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I would like to see, obviously, regular disks and more storage on them. I would like to be able to fit more data into the same amount of space or smaller. That's always where disk storage is going to go. They continue to innovate on the disks, bigger capacity disks in the same amount of space so we can get more storage for the same amount of room of physical space.
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Support in the European region. These are things we are addressing with HPE and they're fixing already, but that's been the biggest problem - getting support engineers scheduled for maintenance, replacing a drive, doing an upgrade. We've had scheduling problems with them. We had one instance where the engineer just didn't show up with no excuse.
Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially.
View full review »The management console could use some work. All the functionality is there, of course, but it can be hard to find some features or do certain tasks. I feel like to get to some features, I need to dig through many sub-menus then tabs in those sub-menus to change a simple thing. Their StoreServ Console (optional) Makes this better, but it still isn't perfect. I would love to see some better help documentation on the StoreServ console other than just writing out the tooltips in a document. I would also like an easier way to re-assign the shelf numbers as they cannot be set statically at least in the build I'm using.
I would like to see more integration with VMware as the plugin currently is good, but I would love to see a ton more functionality with it such as adaptive monitoring. I haven't used HP's OneView software, but I would really like to see something like that built-in with the base product other than purchasing this at an additional cost just to manage all my HP products in one place. I'd also love it if HP started branching out and integrating some of the more well-known solutions into their products by default, such as Veeam and SRM. I know that from a sales point, that might not be the most revenue-generating mood, but it would definitely make a lot of SysAdmins happy.
In the future releases of 3PAR, in terms of the overall roadmap, now I have been to the CDN booth and obviously can't say too much about that. But, HP's roadmap tends to align very well with our expected roadmap, for lack of a better term. And in terms of where we're wanting to see the technology go in order to accommodate the needs of our clients HP has a roadmap that aligns very well with that. So I would say I don't have any particular requirements that I don't think HP already have on their roadmap without saying what they are.
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AhsanulHaque
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The GUI interface could be improved. I have been having trouble with one issue in particular. If you look at the DC and DR, if there is a communication break and the link went down—so the data is not replicating from DC to DR—there is no way to find out how much data is ready for transmission. Only the size of the data that needs to be transferred after the link comes up. If the firewall link is down, there is no way of seeing how much data is waiting to be transferred. This is a weak point of 3PAR.
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reviewer1446966
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution could be improved in regard to space reclamation by adding automation. This should be added to the next release.
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ITInfrasbaa1
IT Infrastructure Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I want artificial intelligence. I don't want anybody from my team to touch it anymore. I want the AI to do everything. I see this as a piece of hardware, which I don't want see and don't want to care about. I want some AI over it, not because I want to fire all my team, but what I want my team working on is definitely not to take care of our hardware.
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reviewer1059243
Senior System & Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Made on three times a price comparison, and only on one occurrence, the largest enterprise infrastructure of all three was HPE able to compete with its competitors.
- It's way too expensive for the SMB market.
- HPE care packs like datacenter/enterprise provide highly automated reports and reviews.
- I liked the periodic SAN performance reviews which are highly detailed reports in about 100 pages and provide recommendations and a final score. However, the price is outrageous!
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Dale Nelson
Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are an all-flash environment, which is really good. One thing that I would like to see is the ability to take storage on 3PAR array and copy it up to the cloud, any type of cloud I want, e.g., Azure, AWS, etc. HPE has StoreOnce CloudBank integration, but I would like to see a little bit more integration from a cloud perspective. In this way, I would have some more flexibility to do more with data, how to store it, and where I have it.
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Dharmendra Gurtata
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is sturdy, it's robust, it fulfills its purpose. However, if the support guys or the installers, those who are deploying it, would show us all the features, I think that's would improve things.
View full review »For me, the main issue with 3PAR right now is its cost problem. Right now, there are some other storage cabinets that can do what 3PAR can do; what 3PAR used to do a long time ago. Now, they can do it as well with a more revised budget. So, the main problem for 3PAR right now is cost.
View full review »If you're familiar with 3PAR, there are multiple GUIs that have been available over a course of time and the new SSMC GUI is excellent. It has great consistency against the HPE line, so that an operator is immediately familiar with it. However, there are a few features that were included in the previous GUI that haven't been brought forward, or maybe are not quite as obvious. I would like to see some of those previous resources brought forward, or at least an option to see an emulation of that previous GUI.
View full review »In future versions, I would like to see Peer Motion become bi-directional, and also able to function over the normal data ports and not require extra ports. I thought I was going to like storage v-motion, but I’m running into problems where Peer Motion doesn’t do what it was advertised to do.
It works as if we have a disk on that is currently our destination, and we wanted to put that on our source 3PAR. We have to tear down our Peer Motion and rezone a bunch of stuff, changing how courts are acting on the 3PARs, and rebuild a new Peer Motion configuration. Because of this, it’s a lot more cumbersome than what we thought it would be.
View full review »From my point of view, the part of this product that needs improvement is the reporting. I would like it to have richer graphic charts, more info, and more reports.
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reviewer372459
Sr. Manager - IT Systems at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
I'm not sure how good the security is.
While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon.
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NetworkM17fa
Network Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
3PAR has StoreOnce and replication. I would like it if they worked together. Or, if I had Nimble and put that either in DR or a primary cohesive management, but still use the cool features of 3PAR, that would be awesome.
View full review »Right now, we don't use a solid-state disk. We use a historical monitoring platform for a Telco. For the long-term storage, we don't need so much speed. However, now that we are dealing with the main BI and doing big data with that information, we will need to speed up really fast. Right now, we are thinking of adding some solid-state capacity, or even better, get a new, solid-state controller. That is the new initiative that we have been looking into.
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Eleny Goritsas
Sales Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
I do a lot of research when I'm trying to find an answer to something, and I want the documentation to be clear. Tell me what's supported. Case and point, we just announced Direct Connect with 3PAR 8000, which we didn't have before. If you look at SPOCK, the information there was not clear and it looked like we actually had a big debate going. The support on it is very limited for Direct Connect, and it just wasn't clear. The feedback got sent and I think they cleaned it up, but I haven't checked.
View full review »The SSD disks mainly did well performance-wise. Now that the cost of the system is reduced, it's more financially viable as well. We did have firmware problems with them over the years, but generally we're fairly happy with it.
View full review »IT is always evolving, but there are no improvements that I see right now. There will be a lot of new stuff, I'm sure. I'm interested to see what happens in the future.
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John Askew
Systems Architect at The University of Auckland
We have an awful lot of data sitting in our environment. We have about 1.2 petabytes of storage sitting on the 3PARs at the moment replicated. We'd really like to get into data compression to do duplication on those devices. At this stage, we can do that on the SST in the environments but we can't do it on the remaining storage. We'd really like to be able to see the storage data being migrated across those tiers and do duplication as much as possible, not just on the actual SST layer itself. The other features I want to look at, at the moment is the storage federation, we'd like to start clustering out our devices so we can spread it across more storage arrays. I'd just say, it's been a very good choice and it's been certainly one of the foundations stars for a very successful project for ourselves.
View full review »The support needs to be improved.
View full review »Majority of the day to day management can be done via the GUI, but certain functions have to be setup via the command line interface such as AFC.
View full review »Monitoring and reporting.
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reviewer1505493
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
The scalability could be improved plus management. Currently, you can only identify what's connected to it through the system names and the like and it would be helpful to have an overview of everything that comes to it. It's easy to upsize but you can't downsize.
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Gustavo Galicia
Architect at GTE 24/7
I would like to see improvement in the product's scalability. As a partner, I had serious problems because of the competition from Dell EMC and Pure. It's definitely problematic. It needs to scale out better.
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ServerAnae40
Server Analyst at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
if it were easier for us to manage the product ourselves without having to get HPE to connect, because it sometimes it does take a bit to get the scheduling worked out with the HPE support. If it were simpler, then it might be easier for us to handle it ourselves.
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Erik-Johnson
HP-UX System Admin at L3 Technologies Inc
It has latency issues.
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SystemsE65a1
Systems Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team.
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Wes Wimpey
Systems Architect at Greenville Health Systems
It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI.
View full review »At the present time, there is nothing we see that we are lacking.
This solution should have better reporting and alerting. Deduplication and compression should function without a performance hit. The 16TB LUN limitations should be fixed.
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I would like to see a more stable deduplication because with the deduplication we have right now, the percentage that we can save is not as high as we hoped for. The second thing I’d like to see is a more scalable and faster storage possibility without the main licenses increasing in cost. Now that we are in a full flash set-up, we want to go to a set-up where we can use flash and slower disks. While that set-up possibility exists, there is a whole license step-up that has to be done. It takes too long to do all the licenses. The license and the flexibility towards licensing needs improvement.
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One big thing I would like to see is to be able to promote a virtual volume while it's still exporting. That's something a lot of the arrays are doing, other vendors, and 3PAR is kind of the only one that's not doing it. It's kind of the only thing that is not there. Everything else is great.
View full review »Upgrades on them are a bit tricky. For us to do a head swap on one is a full outer joiner storage frame, which is obviously not that easy to do in a production environment.
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reviewer1021158
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This product has come to the end of its lifecycle. We could keep it for many years but we are following the recommendation from HPE and are looking to either the Nimble or the Primera.
This is an expensive product, so the price could be reduced.
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SystemsE33b6
Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We do not use Memory-Driven Flash in the old 3PAR. Perhaps we will use it in the new 3PAR. That is part of the reason why we are upgrading.
We aren't using HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity yet. We are looking into it. The old 3PAR didn't support it, but the new 3PAR does.
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Raphael Gondim
Coordinator at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution.
The integration has room for improvement.
View full review »More flexibility and expansion, and also relocation, a cloud solution.
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In the next release, I think I would like to see lower-cost SSD features. I would prefer to spend a little bit less there so I can afford to actually move my entire 3PAR system into SSDs.
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It's a mature product. It's been working fine.
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Herve Garcia
Director, Systems & Architecture at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We would like to see better support for iSCSI.
View full review »The one thing that we've always struggled with are the file sizes. With our competitor, we have had issues with the file sizes (I'm talking about the VMDK sizes) and how big a drive can be. HPE 3PAR, still, has a limit of 16 terabytes for VMDK limit and I think there is more to do in this aspect. There are ways to go around it but we still want DDUP and the compression functionality, if we want to turn those on we have to stay at 16TB. We're working with them on that and it is our biggest hurdle right now. Five years ago, 16 terabytes was big, but not anymore, i.e., not with current file servers. We don't know what the users are doing on the other end, because it's the Infrastructure as a service so we just get the feedback. I want to make a 64 terabyte drive and we need to work through this right.
View full review »From a personal point of view, what would interest me is a mechanism that detects file-rot, i.e. that detects whether a file or sector has become corrupt; for example, as a result of copying the sector to other locations from the original location.
On a file basis, this is implemented in ZFS, where for each file, some error-check is calculated and stored. Periodically, the file system can be scrubbed to detect corruption early, so that a corrupt file can be restored from backups.
3PAR is based on block-storage, so this feature would have to be implemented at block-level.
View full review »Product improvement is a matter of the orientation of storage solutions in the market. Product improvement will follow the market trend and HPE will follow market trend about storage solutions.
View full review »Data de-duplication is something that's lacking in 3PAR. We use HPE StoreOnce systems as part of a backup solution. StoreOnce systems, they use a SAS disks, which are spin disks. They have about 80% de-duplication ratio, which from a backup perspective, that gives us tremendous capacity to back up to disk; not to take to disk for 12, 24 months. When you compare that to 3PAR, 3PAR doesn't have de-duplication and this causes storage issues.
Technically that's not true. 3PAR has de-duplication on the SSD drives, but because it's a mixed drive chassis, the large proportion of data that we have comes in the first class of the SAS disks, which will equate to maybe about 70 or 80% for top data. They're not de-duplicated. I think that's a feature that HPE need to work on quickly.
View full review »I'd like their technical support to be better. If we need to go to level three, there isn't always someone locally and it can be time consuming to get someone with the right skills.
The newer versions of the hardware have really addressed the minor concerns we had, specifically hard drive replacements which were tedious in earlier models due to shelf design. This is now a quick, easy task.
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reviewer1585665
Solution Architech at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance.
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reviewer1468128
IT Infrastructure and Operational Lead at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
We had an issue a few months ago where we experienced a degradation in performance.
Every time you scale by adding more capacity, you need to pay for re-balancing services that cannot be performed in-house.
I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization.
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ITManagec405
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
I would like to see more visibility regarding issues - active alerting. I know that InfoSight is currently trying to do what Nimble did for its storage. If it were proactively alerting regarding maintenance or something that's going to go bust, it could be very useful for us.
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Infrastrb292
Infrastructure Analysts at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
There is always the case where there are the little things that bother you, but you live with them.
There are features that we would like to deep dive into more, but that is where the consultants would come in and help.
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Assistan151c
Assistance Administrator with 11-50 employees
The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use.
View full review »Automated reporting, real-time reporting would be excellent. Right now, most of the reports are ad hoc, so I have to say, "I want this report." I believe you can schedule them and have them go out to an email address, but it would be nice to have an actual dashboard where I can see in real time, "Ok, this is what everything looks like." It may be there and we haven't seen it yet. It hasn't been the primary focus. We're still in the process of engineering a solution.
I am not sure because I am not an expert in 3PAR solutions. I do not know what the new features are. Already what we have, it is huge for us.
View full review »We're going to start to explore integration with public clouds, and I know that that's something that's very hot in the storage space at the moment. That's something we're looking at.
Apart from that, we're looking forward to going to the next firmware major release 331. And also the InfoSight stuff that's coming along the pipeline.
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PaulMarshall
Infrastructure SME at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The ability to not only be integrated with hybrid IT, but on-prem.
View full review »The backup batteries, the WPS, could be better. We have two different vendors that provide the WPS, and HPE is one of them. When we had the outage we shut down the entire thing and tried the backup generators. The electricity was out for 20 minutes and the HPE battery didn't last 10 minutes.
View full review »Everything I need is in already, but we could maybe use a bit more monitoring to get more insight into performance and where the bottlenecks are.
View full review »We need faster disks, but their solid-state disk takes care of that. But they are expensive. I think the solution is to spend more money.
View full review »The things I keep asking for are certain features which are now available but not to all the systems that are on the market. Sometimes they say we don't think the hardware you have can sustain this feature. We don't let you try it if it probably can't sustain the feature. There are other features where they say they don't support it on this type of spinning media, we only do that on flash. We don't have flash on our RA, so we are out of that. We get so many other features just by a software update, like transparent frame level between sites which is a huge thing. There's nothing really to complain about.
View full review »We're satisfied with the existing solution, but we are still having discussions to improve something.
We're not missing anything in terms of hardware, but the firmware could be improved.
View full review »Their installation and design engineers leave something to be desired.
View full review »I'm interested in their new stuff around, in the road map around, in line dedupe on the array, compression back up protection stuff over and above what they've got already, integrating into application aware snap shots. That's the sort of stuff I'm looking for.
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reviewer1027764
Senior project specialist at a security firm with 201-500 employees
The solution could improve by being more secure.
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SeniorSycb53
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts, but other than that it meets our needs.
Possibly because of the version that we are running, but we do not have not enough features.
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TechDire6cb5
Tech Director Data Centers with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would like to see more openness with other platforms. InfoSight synergy as a whole is great, if I own all HPE products.
It is whoever gets me the best price and value. They win the contract. I need that flexibility to work with, for example, if Dell were to win my server contract or ViON were to run the storage, and I still had HPE servers. I need flexibility for interoperability across multiple platforms, not just HPE.
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Infrastrd82a
Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We have had a few issues with it. We had our virtual environment lock up a few times on storage-based things. We think we have it sorted out, but maybe it came down to a configuration issue on it.
They have starting to do some integration with the VMware and reporting from that. I think continuing along that path would be pretty good.
View full review »HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity. If it could be integrate with 3PAR, it would be amazing. This is what I am looking for going forward.
View full review »The features we need to provide to the different entities, it's meeting our criteria. That is the reason we went ahead with 3PAR, and we implemented it in the environment. So far, so good. People are asking for the services and, yes, we do provide the services through the 3PAR.
And IOPs which has been gravely needed in terms of the back end and in terms of the front end, to meet application needs, I'm glad it's meeting up. So we are not encountering any risk at all.
View full review »Anything that will make the datacenter more scalable, more available, that would be great. Also, easier to operate or monitor, that would be good.
View full review »- OS/patch/firmware installation can only be done by a division of HPE Support, which must be coordinated.
- Error reporting and alarming needs additional VMs per node (SPOCK) and cannot be integrated in HPE Remote Support, which is used for all the other HPE devices (FC Switches, Proliant Servers, etc.).
We would like to see more Nimble integration, now that HPE owns Nimble. We would like to see how they come up with solutions to integrate Nimble storage and all-flash storage into our existing 3PAR traditional spinning disk. We would like to see what kinds of benefits that would give us. Perhaps we could add more cache.
View full review »I would like to see a lot more monitoring and reporting out of the box.
View full review »They are constantly moving and will address an issue instantaneously. If somebody has an issue, HPE is very responsive because the 3PAR is one of the flagship products. I haven’t had any issues and they’re very on top of making sure that we follow through with code upgrades.
View full review »I'd like it to be quicker.
View full review »It needs better statistics and configuration. The system allows too much human input. It's automated enough, but it wants you to determine some of the settings. If you do them wrong, you can make a very good system perform badly. If you do it well, you can make an under-permissioned system perform very well. There should be more best practices that they suggest, not "okay, what do you want."
I'd also like to see better real time performance rather than charts and graphs you've got to go in all the time. It'd be nice to have something running all the time, like a real tool from which you can actually see performance of what's actually happening rather than having to go in all the time and generate them. Real-time notifications, real-time performance statistics. They have those, but they're all command line and I can't keep the session running all day on some screen. You have to go in to get them and you can't really provide a thumb display for customers to see.
View full review »While there is direct module integration with different Hyper Visors on the market, the actual software of those integrations do leave some feature integration off requiring both management interfaces. The greater this integration becomes the easier to manage the environment it will be.
View full review »I would like it to be greener, with a lower power draw and generating less heat. That is not a comment on a problem with this SAN, it's something I look for in any hardware additions.
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Mohammad Salman
Manager of Customer Services with 1,001-5,000 employees
An area of improvement for this solution is an increase in the bandwidth as well as an upgrade of the storage functionality and capabilities. The storage needs to be expandable for future-proofing.
An additional feature I would like to see in the next release is for the management interface not to depend on Java.
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Carsten Cimander
Senior Consultant at Computacenter
The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved.
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Hamilton Ribeiro Dos Santos
IT Manager at Maquinas Jacto
I have been looking into additional functionalities of 3PAR but at this moment we are very satisfied with the basic functionality.
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Director9019
Director at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
I would like to see compatibility with NVMe.
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Kasper Billeskov
Storage Service Architect at NNIT
I am hoping to see some snapshot functionalities: Oracle snapshots, snapshots for VMware, and hypervisor snapshots.
We have had some bad issues on stability. Also, the new feature sets, like deduplication and compression, are complex to work with. I hope when I view the roadmap that they will be less complex.
View full review »Pretty much whatever we need from the database side, it is there.
There are specific things from the application side; I don't have a list, they do have a list of what you can see from the database side.
Most of the developers are used to Microsoft .NET and SQL server. They are cutting out Oracle, so there is a shift within the developer's mind. "How am I going to, starting from the modelling, use it?"
Key items, like there's a 90-degree column in SQL that automatically fills in. It used to have triggers, but 12c is coming. There are some good features coming that I'm looking for. I was part of the session for what is new in 12c. I'm really excited about that.
We're doing real-time analytics, so another thing is whether noSQL may be the best fit or not. We need to evaluate, not done yet. We are thinking, we have Exadata, we have Endeca, so we want to use the product.
HPE Mexico takes a lot of time to register and deliver. After we negotiated the final price, HPE releases it and then it takes 48 to 72 hours to deliver it. This is not the best deal.
View full review »The thing that we're a little bit bummed about is they're not so quick to get it with the latest version of VMware and we're also using an older version of OneView; so to get to the newer/later releases, it seems like it's a two week process for two different data centers. If they could streamline that process, make it a little quicker, maybe so that the customer can do it, instead of hiring somebody else, then it would be helpful.
View full review »It is difficult for me to say where the areas of improvement are because we haven’t been able to test all the features yet. At the moment, it’s OK for us.
I would like to see it cheaper to increase the cost effectiveness.
View full review »We are waiting for the compression to use on a daily basis. We have some deep ticket issues that I know about related to this. Otherwise, we are fairly happy with the solution.
View full review »There aren’t many things to improve, but better monitoring would help us get a better look at everything we are doing. I would like to see more monitoring and graphs. It's not easy to pick up the correct numbers. Graphs would make it easier to measure performance. It could be that we don't know everything yet. There is a learning curve. I don't think we have seen the whole potential yet. Maybe I would give it a 10 rating soon.
View full review »I think it needs to become even more automated, especially with all this new hyper-converged functionality, which is really easy to upgrade. It should also be self-healing. The upgrade process is still quite clunky for 3PAR. It receives an alert from itself and then tells you what to do. At the moment it's not that intuitive.
View full review »I was trying to get into the StoreServe this morning; couldn't get into the basic hands-on lab. Technically, I can't address anything as far as features, support, or anything like that which might be helpful.
View full review »HP has what they call the OSS, operation support site. I hand over all my BAU to HP to manage and fix, but they don't go down to the 3PAR level. We can't afford to fall back on government money to take the time to identify issues. OSS only provides high-level support, and it would be an improvement if they drilled down more.
View full review »That’s hard to say because it’s pretty good for us. The areas that we would suggest for improvement, HP is already looking at.
View full review »Deduplication on FC disks needs improvement.
View full review »The only area I would say that could use improvement is communication on what upgrades should be applied. We have been told that the re-seller cannot perform, nor recommend, upgrades.
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Payman Maher
Storage Specialist at Informatics Services Corporation
I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL.For further explanation I must say When using vvol , you can have 3 tier in Storage .This tiers different in IO an Capacity feature.Usually tier 0 can support maximum IO and minimum Capacity and use SSD in this tier, Tier 1 between Tier 0 and 2 for Support IO and Capacity This layer is known as FC (Fast Class) nad Finally in tier 2 you Have only capacity and usually used NL disk for capacity .from that side in vmware Cluster equivalent this tier have a concept called Gold,Silver,Bronze that define in Storage Policy.You may want to first move a virtual machine to the silver group with disks; and then move it to another group, such as gold or bronze.This feature is based on the feature that the storage device provides and This feature is not yet available on the storage device, according to the documentation of HPE company will be presented in an update called T05
View full review »The management interface is not intuitive. It is much better than EVA, but took some time to learn.
View full review »Just generally the management - which I know, they introduced a few new tools yesterday, here at the HPE Discover conference. Generally, the management of the multiple systems that we have. That's really the only problem, always having to go to all these separate tools to manage everything.
View full review »I saw recently saw that they will integrate the predictive software from Nimble with 3PAR, and I think that's a good move. With the next firmware release, software release, we will really profit from this integration. I think it's a really good idea that HPE is now integrating this as a possibility on 3PAR.
View full review »At this stage I can't give you any feedback on that. It's too early.
I think they just released Flash Cache. It is the new SSD where you write all your caching information to flash disk, and then it writes it down to your nearline or your flash disk. We just bought all new flash cache for that purpose. So that was one of the features we were looking for.
I don't know that you could improve on the 3PAR very much, other than maybe the 3PAR management console. It's kind of an old school console, it's not web- based. It's a fat client that you have to install. It would be nice to have a web- based version that I could go anywhere to, versus having to go back to the 3PAR management console.
View full review »On certain of their features that we have to use to migrate data, it tends to go off for about 60 or 90 seconds toward the end of the work.
View full review »If we could do more things online for the business, it would be great.
View full review »I'd like to see just a little bit more virtualization so that as I work on the front end, I can make any necessary disc switches. I'd also like to see expanded correspondence systems.
View full review »I'd like to see future versions have improved protection and optimization, such as whether we're using the right disks properly for the assigned workload.
View full review »Common data center standards for temperature, humidity, firefighting etc.
View full review »Removing a LUN mapping from a single host is a bit odd, worse a single host in a host set, it needs 10G ports for IP based replication (needs to be 1 or 10G). Keep working on the SSMC and allow for GUI management to be cross platform.
View full review »This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active. Competing products also provide active-active replication.
Adding support for Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) would be an improvement.
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Computerd47b
Computer Systems Administrator at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees
I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now. The upgrade process is very tedious. It takes a lot of time and effort, in addition to coordination with HPE. We are looking for something which is more user-friendly and easy to deploy. Fixing the upgrade process is very critical.
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ManagerL4e9d
Manager Lab Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
We would like to see automation. We are primarily looking at provisioning and deprovisioning the storage, based on the customer requirements.
View full review »As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports. Even though, we use it for other things, if can improve more things in the supporting, like the reporting tool, it would make it easier for the customers.
View full review »We are waiting for compression.
View full review »Nothing comes to mind. Most of these products usually come with more features than you need.
View full review »For performance it's all okay, but we are also hoping for the compression feature, hoping that we can have not only good performance but also more gain in our capacity; we are still waiting for it to be deployed.
We have had a painful migration to transform from the old way of doing dedupe, in version 2, to the new way of doing dedupe; and also getting rid of the old CPGs with the old way of storing the data. So it's a bit painful, cost a lot of manpower to do it.
One big thing that we really need - it's a simple thing - is longer names for our volumes. Now they're only 28 characters and we try to have the same name convention as our VMware guys, the datastore names. We want the same name, but if we want to create a SnapShot, and we want to add something - an underscore or something like that and maybe another number - then we have issues. It's only 28 characters and we then hit our limit. Twenty-eight is too low nowadays. I will ask our Technical Account Manager to do an enhancement on that. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters.
It sounds simple but, somehow, I think it's a deeper integration issue and it's not so easy to change. But I need to ask for it because now we are trying to use SnapShots for copying production data to servers and we need those extras, a space, character spaces, to create a longer name.
View full review »Customer facing management should be easier and simpler for those who do not work with it too often.
View full review »Maybe, there is a need to have an easier interface. They could improve the storage platforms.
There are some things that are missing. We had some initial hardware problems that gave us a bad taste. We did, eventually, fix them but it did take a little bit of time to resolve them. These were either hardware issues, disk drive issues or connectivity issues, we just couldn't figure it out.
View full review »I would like to see compression and deduplication. I know that future versions of the software will have compression.
View full review »We have only had it for one year. At the moment, I don’t know about areas for improvement. Everything we need is included.
View full review »I would really like to see it be more efficient at reclaiming storage when deleting something, instead of just being thin at the start.
View full review »I would like to see fewer licenses.
View full review »There is only one thing I would really like to see, but I'm not entirely sure if this is actually 3PAR-related or not. I'd like real-time reporting. We can get reports, but it's difficult to monitor the system in real-time, which is critical, for example, when something is running slowly. It takes us hours to find out what the system is doing.
Also, real-time reporting will tell me who the "top talker" is at any given time. This is something we go to Brocade for to use their fiber channel and open grid. The first thing it shows is the top 5 talkers so you know that one of those is mostly likely causing the problem.
I think that 3PAR will eventually have the fiber channel feature, increasing its cost. I don't see us buying the license for that, though, as we've already spent a lot of money on 3PAR licenses.
View full review »Scalability, in the sense that it would be awesome if the product had the capability to not only scale spindles, but also processing power.
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reviewer1388748
Professional Services Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's not a very good solution. We found EMC and other storage solutions can help the client a bit more in terms of reaching their target, having the flexibility they need, and offering better backups and integration.
It's not high-end storage. It's not as strong as it needs to be. You need to have two nodes, or two controls to be able to effectively protect from data loss.
It's not really a complete solution. It has some limitations with software integration as well as backup and restore integration. It does not protect the data stored on 3PAR. Some products should be protected with another brand if there's a level of security required.
With 3PAR, there is remote copy software which isn't very good. It should be improved also. Many times we have had data issues and we have had to re-initiate the application and reconfigure.
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DataCent1a09
Data Center Operations at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades.
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Eduardo Fontanella
Infrastructure Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version.
View full review »Maybe someone can add the suite of features into the Synergy enclosures. That would be a great feature for us.
I would like them to improve it so I can do firmware upgrades without downtime.
Some management functions through a web interface.
View full review »It's an expensive solution, so lowering the entry point for owning this solution would be a great improvement. Also, it should include an SSD for big data, something we could really use.
View full review »I'd like to see more and better documentation on how we can get more out of it. This is lacking right now and I feel like we can do much more with our investment. Both documentation and education on how to best use the product would be nice.
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reviewer1754823
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
If HPE 3PAR could handle NAS and all things related to NAS, you would not need to have a mixture of different storages, storage boxes, one solution could fit all.
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reviewer1661601
Snr Systems Enginee at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data.
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Mesut KARACA
Responsible for information processing at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
As long as they can keep the solution stable, it will be good. Stability is very important to us.
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Jay Liu
Manager Of Storage And Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
I would like to see the reliability improve. While it has been a good product, the QA of the product could be done a little more thoroughly.
View full review »I would like to see better implementation with Veeam.
View full review »The management console could be improved, but the newest release already seems much better than the previous version.
View full review »There is a caching solution, I know it's in development, to increase the performance further.
There is need to have pre-defined setups for your clients so that you know that the configuration at the LS is correct.
View full review »I want an easier solution for provisioning new servers. Currently we need to go in, set up a server, give the server names and functions, declare the number of gigabytes the server has for storage, and so on.
View full review »We need something with less performance and lower cost to fill a gap in our customer solution offerings. We'd like to be able to have something like branch office storage, which is still capable of interacting with enterprise systems like 3PAR 8400, for example, in terms of replication, backup capability, peer motion, etc. Specifically, we need lower end 3PAR devices. Sometimes, we need 3PAR for the same cost of an MSA2040 to replace it.
View full review »Storage migration features. Comparing the 3PAR to IBM’s SVC, storage migration could be much easier to perform if there are lessons to be learned from IBM’s brilliant product.
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reviewer1620432
System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use the old disk and we can't make a VMO in HPE 3PAR without getting an upgrade. We activated a new disk but it failed, it's hard to manipulate and format it. The disk might be okay but when we put it in the storage array, it failed.
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reviewer1471356
Service & Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We are using a built-in solution in 3PAR. We are using All-Flash Storage, and there are some difficulties with it. HPE has now developed a new tool system to support All-Flash, and that's why we are changing our investment.
They must increase its performance. I want unlimited support, which is very important for performance. I am not interested in spinning disks. HPE is developing new storage systems called Primera, but they must be developed more.
View full review »I don't have any complaints.
View full review »I would like to see more fast storage and more inside support.
View full review »We are pretty happy with what we have. One small disappointment was when we invested in an HPE 3PAR 7440c two years ago. We had heard that it was supposed to be a long-term system. Around a year later, when they answered our RFP, it was for an HPE 3PAR 8400c, which was already on the market. The HPE 3PAR 7440c system was a bit old. I would appreciate if they made more of an investment in the “c” series.
We are wondering what we should do for the next purchase, because we want to invest for five years going forward to protect our investment. I know that we have the support for new, huge capacity, so on the technical side, there is no pressure.
I would like to see a bit of improvement from the new managed interface because they have this Windows client which was used in the past. I don't remember the exact name of it, but it worked fine.
The new web-based interface for reports is great for some parts of the monitoring. But for day-to-day usage, it’s not very user-friendly.
View full review »We'd like to remove some of the barriers to integration with Microsoft. Having the same level of integration with Microsoft as with other applications would be an improvement.
View full review »Ease of updating.
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Adminitrd884
Assistant Manager of Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We would like to see full virtual. We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR.
View full review »We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types.
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Pnina Sharir
Works at MPRest
Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information.
View full review »No complaints.
View full review »It needs more host ports.
View full review »Since the world is moving from enterprise storage to the software-defined storage, I believe that they also need to work in the same direction and that it should be hardware independent.
View full review »There were no areas for improvement a that time.
View full review »I would you like to see compression included in a future release. That’s what we are missing.
View full review »Because we buy so much storage, we have a lot of headroom that we may not use for six-12 months. So what we'd like to see is the booked-capacity piece which has recently been introduced at HP Discovery London.
We'd also want tighter integration between NetApp and HP.
We also had stability issues with older versions.
View full review »It could improve in the virtualization of the storage. Also, it needs better reporting on other vendors' technologies, such as VMware.
View full review »Failover times.
We have a need for a LUNS larger than 16TB but this unit does not support it.
View full review »- Host Integration
- Support for new platforms
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reviewer1480734
Senior technical and storage expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is suitable for medium-sized businesses and data centers with less number of users and less important data. It is not really an enterprise-level solution. It needs more capacity.
It is also not really stable. It should be more stable. It should also support any server model. It is really weak in this area.
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ITManagedead
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are some weird things that we can't figure out.
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Somboon Leeputtaphan
System Specialist at True Digital Group
Integrate to monitor with CentOS.
View full review »Cost, it is still fairly expensive, cost could go down to make this technology more popular in the market.
View full review »The biggest area of improvement would be the cost. It's an expensive solution and the initial cost of ownership is high.
Another area of improvement is the loss in performance when bringing in different types of storage. You can get very high performance when you have all new storage in the same virtualized environment, but if you have legacy storage, the configurations have to be different and the performance will suffer. You end up losing a lot of the efficiency of the whole storage system.
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