HPE 3PAR StoreServ Benefits
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Dallas Widing
IT Manager at BouMatic LLC
In the deployment of virtual servers, I can have a new VM up and running in 15 minutes, run the patches, then done. I routinely fire up base images that I have for my servers: Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. I routinely fire those base images up and do all the updates, then prep them again for cloning. With 3PAR, we definitely have the performance to do that. Those images I do keep on SSD just to have that performance to deploy a new VM.
It has improved our throughput. We went from a 1G backbone on our LeftHand SAN, and also the IBM SAN was not redundant, but we put in a 10G backbone with 10G fiber which truly increased our performance.
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StorageA404a
Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance. Also, the new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly.
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SanAndStd11c
SAN and Storage Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It propelled our desire to virtualize more quickly, to go from physical servers to more and more virtualized servers.
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The benefit to the company is less down time. I can put my time towards other things, such as finding ways to increase performance or doing more proactive tasks.
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Mark Frenette
HPC Architect at Nuance Communications
We are an R&D group, so it does not change the function. However, it improves the performance for our grids.
It allows us to buy less capacity for performance. We would buy spindles just for the IOPs, so we were wasting space for the performance. Now, we don't have to.
View full review »So the benefits from using 3PAR, for example, is that with the chunklets, we can get performance and features that we've never seen before. So, for example, a traditional customer will buy a storage array and deploy their files on the storage arrays. For us, for high performance computing, we buy multiple arrays and we distribute the loads across all the storage arrays. With the chunklets feature, we have the ability to distribute as much of the load as we have storage arrays. So, for example, if we want more performance, it's just a matter of buying more storage arrays and the load will distribute itself.
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reviewer969309
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I've seen a lot of data storage systems. It's the only storage system you can watch over the application time and it keeps measuring it. We have some thresholds on our end on it, a very good graphical user interface and reporting.
View full review »At one point, we had HPE EVAs and when we were changing them out we didn't just look at 3PAR, we looked at all the solutions. We actually started out with a V400 which is an older version of the 3PAR - they didn't have the 7400s as yet - at our data center. Eventually, when the V400 became end-of-life, we looked at all the EVAs and by that time, they had come out with the 7400 and 7200, which are a lot less expensive and a better fit for a smaller organization. We were able to throw any workload on it and not worry about performance. It certainly made my job easy and my team's job easy in terms of maintenance and management of the platform.
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Peter Sachs
Storage Infrastructure Engineer at Cambridge Health Alliance
HPE 3PAR StoreServ has improved our organization from its ease of use and high availability.
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Jeff Stone
Solutions Architect at Optio Data
A lot of it has to do with its ability to stretch between data centers. It has helped a lot for times when our customers do DR testing. Instead of having to spin down and spin up, I can do it live and seamless. Therefore, I do not have to schedule downtime with an organization. Especially maintenance on arrays, if I need to do some maintenance, it could potentially slow down somethings or even take things offline.
With 3PAR, I can transparently sort of flap over to that other data center and do all the maintenance I need to do (even if it means forklift upgrading things). I can do this without having to take applications down. For a place like a hospital, which is open 24/7/365, it can't suffer downtime. That is why this product is one of those nice game changers.
It allows me to do so much and worry about taking care of the clients, instead of how do I keep things up.
View full review »With 3PAR, we got more insights. We could see where data is going; overall better performance as well from that standpoint. For the ProLiant servers, I don't know what to say about the series. I rack them and throw them in there. Once you put them on a rack, as long as you don't mess with it, they just run.
View full review »In our organization, the storage is not detected from the first day, so I don't have the workload. The workload is run in my environment, and 3PAR is the best solution. If I have a workload from Thursday, I don't make the adaptive optimization on this because 3PAR is collecting all the storage and doing all tiering of the storage. If I have another disk from a new line, 3PAR makes it as tiering and adaptive. When a VM has more rights about the storage, it will make such VM of a higher tier. It can make it a C-tier. If the VM has a need for more IOPs, they need to use the scale command every time. This VM will move to another tier, and after the weekend, I will schedule adaptive optimization to check if this VM needs this tier or not. This way I can make all the storage tiered. If the workload is big and needs more IOPs, it moves the VMs from one tier to another tier. This is the main advantage.
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Dwayne Vidi
Director of Technology at a university
Performance-wise it has been fantastic.
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Solution7c6e
Solutions Architect
It has improved our functions because we have a very small IT team. We have to do a lot of things. The more solutions that we can bring onboard which are easy to use and do not require too much maintenance, this is good for us. We just do not have enough bandwidth to cover everything.
Therefore, we are always looking for good solutions which do their job well and are easy to use.
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Tony Rigby
CTO for Microsoft & Infrastructure Platforms at Amey
It provides us with on-demand service. For example, if we win a contract but don't have access to a service facility until midnight, we have to be able to "flood in" suddenly to keep the services running without any downtime. We have to be able to keep the systems running instantaneously and don't have the luxury of, say, a three-month provisioning or a new-chassis swap. So with 3PAR, we're able to provide on-demand service.
View full review »3PAR, in general, has helped us speed up deployments and better track our I/O consumption. We are able to speed up deployments because we are no longer having to install a vendor specific DSM/MPIO on top of the Microsoft OS or Linux ones as we did with the EVA line. System reporter allows us a more in depth look at our I/O utilization patterns in an easy to gather and archive way.
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reviewer1473348
SAN Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution has greatly assisted data performance as far as a VM-ware environment goes. My data performance is much faster.
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SystemsAd3f7
Systems And Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We design a lot of our DR and business continuity strategy around 3PAR Peer Persistence and other copy services.
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SrEngine62c7
Sr. Engineer at a leisure / travel company
It has improved multiple things. Integration with current HPE products that we have, e.g., backups with integration within Veeam and restores of a huge file server using Veeam. Across the board, it has helped with more than just serving data, but also with recovery.
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WayneCross
Director IT at Borden Ladner
We have been able to scale faster and get our applications out in much less time. We don't need to worry about the platform's ability to manage the workload, so we are pretty happy.
Our VMware platform sits on 3PAR. We also have databases, ERP applications, and websites running on it.
All-Flash also positions our organization for growth. It certainly has its place. We don't use All-Flash because the performance of the existing arrays knows the job, but I certainly see where if we are doing data-intensive operations it could assist us.
We deployed InfoSight predictive analytics not too long ago. It improved our management of VMs. We are now able to see a lot more using InfoSight and we have a pretty good idea of exactly what's going on in our storage array.
The storage array absolutely increases performance. Compared with what we had before 3PAR, this has certainly done its job.
The solution has also helped us reduce time to deployment, I would say by at least 30%. It's easier for us to deploy. We get our servers up and running quickly and that way we support our environment faster so we can be more agile.
It has also significantly improved throughput, so we don't need to worry about performance for any of our platforms.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
HPE 3PAR provides fast and reliable storage for our critical systems like the database (MSSQL and Oracle). It also improved the availability of the system and at the same time provides a Disaster Recovery solution by using the remote-copy feature.
The adaptive optimization is also a factor in maximizing the capability of the system.
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Tye Summerville
IT Operations Manager at ACCC INSURANCE COMPANY
It had our organization start to think like an actual organization. A lot of stuff came out where the management of our workloads has improved dramatically.
We have gotten out of the mindset of physical is better; virtualization has taken hold and is starting to take off. We are going through the process of consolidation to 100% virtual. It has been incremental growth over a short period of time.
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ProjectD7fc0
Project Development Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It gives organizations a single point of storage and single point of backup. I would call it a "single repository" of all your data with a good archiving system. Those are the biggest benefits I see.
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Directora818
Director of North America at a sports company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution handles everything to do with our business. If it’s down then we can’t deliver to our customers. We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data.
The All-Flash has positioned us for growth because we can do more. Going past traditional hard drives has really been fantastic for us. Our performance has increased by anywhere from fifty to one hundred percent. Moreover, our deployment time has been reduced by about fifty percent.
For us, the increase in throughput translates to an increase in productivity.
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NetworkAd9ed
Network Admin at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
The product has heavily improved the way our organizations functions. Before we got the 3PAR, we were running an HPE Generation 6 server as our storage server. It was slow, and we were getting low on space, so we weren't able to expand capacity that easily. Since we went to 3PAR, it has fiber connections connecting all the cabinets together. Therefore, data access has been tremendously better, especially when we have to constantly recall, all day long everyday, patients charts or when we are doing scheduling. We see over 2000 patients on a daily basis, so we have to have speed and reliability. By implementing 3PAR over the old, regular file storage server that we had before, it has drastically improved our patient care.
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VirtualizationSysAdmin415
Virtualization Systems Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees
We do not have to take the whole system down now to do upgrades.
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SystemsM2aeb
Systems Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It lets us mix a lot of drive spaces, as well as performance drives, between Fibre Channel, long-term storage, and SSD drives. It performs pretty well as far as moving the data around and not letting a lot of it go to waste.
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Jose Newman
IT Architect at Oncor Electric Delivery
From a management standpoint of the arrays, they work really well. They handle a lot of data and, overall, it lowers the complexity of our storage infrastructure. We've been able to consolidate down to a single platform which meets all of our demands, anywhere from our advanced meter systems to our customer information system.
I cannot share the information on how it improved our storage estates, but in general, it has very good SAN performance compared to EMC Clariion, IBM XIV, IBM Storwize V7000 and its other competitors.
View full review »Previously, we were with another vendor, and we suffered performance issues due to architecture limitation. With 3PAR, we were able to provide the business an acceptance level of performance which directly has an impact on user experience. We are able to keep up with application and user demands as response times are vital for the business to function competitively.
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Leonardo Amarello
System Engineer at GEBE
All-flash is positioning our company for growth. We need to improve our systems with better hardware and systems. That will happen in the next three to six months.
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Principa0182
Principal Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our applications are now at least two to four times faster. It was a night and day change.
People walk up to us going, "This is just good. Thank you." It is nice for storage people to receive thanks instead of people saying, "Your stuff is slow."
View full review »We were quite hesitant on the array size when it was pitched as our replacement of an aged SAN.
We were guaranteed we would get much more space than the physical capacity. (Make sure you get it in writing.)
In reality, their safe numbers were extremely safe.
We were expecting 2:1 as a rule of thumb, but in reality, we ended up sitting at greater than 8:1 across the entire array with all compaction/reduction features factored in.
View full review »In our case, 3PARs were easier to implement into our existing environment. Also, we had problem with storage space so it was the easiest way to expand.
View full review »We're using deduplication a lot so getting a return on our investment there is a great. We're getting a lot of performance through that, so we're running probably a 1000 VMs on a 7440 that has done pretty well for us.
View full review »Before switching over from HP’s old storage, we just needed to upgrade our aging infrastructure, which was pretty easy.
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Infrastr6155
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Backups were huge. We take a lot of SAN-level Snapshots and it has been phenomenal in that aspect.
View full review »The biggest benefit is the flash the IOPS cannot be beat. I’m in a very ever evolving environment and I have now the confidence that I have the appropriate resources at hand that if a bigger problem or a new development project comes around, I can react to it quickly. And with a 3PAR, I’m able to move machines back and forth between a QA, a production environment, the QA environment being in my legacy storage seamlessly. I don’t even need a systems engineer for that, I can have my help desk resources do it. So that’s a real benefit for a shop with five people.
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Brian-Earnst
Enterprise Architect at Blessing Hospital School of Medical Laboratory Technology
I do not think it has changed the way that we function.
When we were having problems, it actually hurt us. Before that, we did not have any problems.
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Steve Davidek
IT Manager at City Of Sparks
We upgraded to 3PAR from an HPE EVA about seven or eight years ago and power consumption went down.
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UnixAdmi6d0e
Unix Admin at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes, so we're really agile when it comes to that. If we run into server issues, it's a quick jump, we're on a new server, we're off and running again. And then I have time to look at the server. That's a really nice feature.
And the speed is outstanding, it really works wonderfully.
View full review »Previously, we were using EVA from HPE. When we moved to 3PAR, we noticed a reduction in footprint, reduced by more than 30%. We use the Adaptive Optimization giving us a reduction in cost and with better performance. So, we are achieving the goal of performance with less cost.
It increases our availability and service provision. We provide service to many customers at the same time. Sharing of the resources is a good target we have achieved using 3PAR.
View full review »We use it for our VND environment. It’s made it easy to make sure we have the highest throughput capable. It has helped with our connectivity to our DL servers. It’s made functionality a lot easier, doing that.
View full review »This has not improved my organization at all. It has had a direct effect on how we see our storage solution and how critical it really is and how availability is a priority. This product ran great for 6 months until we had our 1st drive failure. After that, it started falling apart and we have had nothing but issues ever since.
We did oversubscribe our drives in regards to IOPS capacity with no alerts of such. This caused us to lose another drive a couple months later, which brought a HUGE performance hit to our business until the drive was rebuilt. Shortly after it was replaced and rebuilt, another drive failed, which completely crippled our business until it was resolved. We were down most of a day because of this.
Since then, I have had too many tickets open to count. I still currently have a ticket open with them that they do not have a resolution. They know the issue. It is 3rd-party firmware on the HBA card in the controllers, which is going to be released in some unknown future release.
We have just received another unit as a PoC to set up Peer Motion so that we can try and update our current production array for a completely different reason, which we have been waiting several months for. We have no confidence in HPE technical support or engineering to update our current production array without any type of outage.
We have replaced FC drives, NL drives, SSD drives, HBAs in controller nodes, and SFP connectors. The onsite CE’s that came out to service the unit have been great, but I find it ridiculous that I can’t run for 1 year without an issue.
View full review »It's more about the redundancy. Their uptime has to be pretty much all the time. They can't really afford to have any down time. The reliability that HPE offers, the 3PARs are just a perfect fit for the company. They're easily deployable and it's easy to provision storage to the blade server when we need to. It just works, it's a perfect fit.
View full review »It's a good performer. There's a lot of options coming out with the 3PAR and I'm very interested in looking at the old Flash systems too. In fact, I'm actually thinking of converting the 3PAR StoreServe that we have over to an old Flash system.
View full review »We were able to save money by not buying more physical drives for storage and more cabinets, things like that.
View full review »One of the biggest benefits that we just experienced was we actually went through an Oracle E-Business Suite R11 to R12 migration. Three-quarters of a terabyte database. Oracle came in, said this should take you somewhere around 24 to 36 hours. Realistically, at the end of the day, it took 10 hours, and a lot of that had to do with the 3PAR back end storage system and our ability to transform the actual virtual volumes and the IO, the rate configurations, within minutes. We had one instance where we took the entire 750 gig database, that virtual volume from fast cache to SSD in six minutes.
View full review »We've seen a huge improvement in processing times and coming from a traditional SAN over to the HP 3PAR all flash solution, we saw about a 90 percent reduction in the processing time to some of the batch processors that we were running, which for us is very, very huge.
View full review »It’s not as complex as EMC, so whenever there’s requirements for allocating storage, it’s very easy to do. The turnaround only takes 48 hours, whereas with EMC it was taking three days to a week to allocate that storage.
View full review »A real example is that before 3PAR, the nightly batch job would start at 7:30 PM and run until the next day in the afternoon, until around 2:00 PM.
Now with the 3PAR storage platform, the night batch job starts at the same time (7.30 PM) and finishes at 4.00 AM (instead of 2:00 PM the next day).
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David Barrientos
IT Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment.
The mission-critical apps and processes that we use are our Oracle database, VMware, and some web services.
The All-flash positions us for growth because of its better performance, which means that our applications are faster.
This solution has improved throughput. It has helped when we deploy non-production servers.
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IctCounte381
ICT Country Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
- Performance that it gives me.
- The speed of how we process data on the manufacturing floor.
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Julie Imoto
Engineering Manager at Leidos Holdings Inc.
It allows us to cohost as needed. We are able to put more systems on one data storage system and it is still able to deliver the availability and speed that we need it to deliver.
All-flash also positions us for growth. We can look to simplify things while still maintaining the reliability and speed that we need to deliver quality healthcare.
In addition, it has increased our performance and it has improved our throughput. The latter improvement means that we're able to ensure that the users can get to their data as quickly as they need it, and that it responds to any queries that they have. It's able to meet their daily needs.
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RajeshSrinivasan
Director at HCL Technologies
It is about the availability and predictably. The performance is also good.
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Alan Drummond
Delivery Director at Schneider Electric
It has improved our throughput in terms of workloads.
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GlobalMa4cee
Global manager, servers and storage at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Previously, we had lots of different storage vendors. We moved to a standardized platform using 3PAR and then we were able to have a consistent set of documentation through all of our sites, and we're able to replicate data between the sites really easily.
The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them.
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Branimir Kusanic
Head Of IT Data Center at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees
For me, personally, I think the most important value is really the way HPE is treating us as a customer.
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Steve Davidek
IT Manager at City Of Sparks
We're able to expand more. It's faster, more efficient. The technology is 10-years, 20-years advanced from where we were before.
Performance. We used to be with NetApp. The overall performance is much better with this solution.
View full review »The greatest benefit is its uptime. Also, performance and flexibility are very good. It runs both virtual workloads, as well as, native presentation workloads for both Windows and Unix environments. That's the main benefit. One of the other benefits is the way that it does consolidation and deduplication inline with the flash arrays.
View full review »HPE has been our de facto standard, and the benefits are the integration with the rest of our system, including solutions for system administration of having one interface with OneView and being able to use 3PAR with your storage and manage everything. The integration with virtualization as all that just brings down cost with administration, and to me that's one of the biggest things it brings.
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Cindy Cecutti
Director IT at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
The increased throughput has allowed us to scale and maintain performance, or even have better performance.
In terms of the mission-critical applications that we run on this solution, our application is benefit adjudication.
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ITManage04a2
IT Manager at a energy/utilities company
We had a major down five years ago where we actually lost our entire data center, which caused the company to go down for over 12 days. In that time, we bought and implemented a full 3PAR product to get us up and running. We were able to buy a smaller set of storage and invest in the actual technology to get our company back up and running. Then, we were able to buy a second 3PAR to allow us to set up a secondary data center and immediately replicate over to that and succeed in designing a DR strategy without having to relearn everything.
We don't use InfoSight for management. We use it to help us determine if we have our workloads in the wrong place or set up incorrectly.
My users are happier because the response time is there. We haven't really analyzed the true IOPs, or anything. We are just trying to give them a solid user experience.
The solution has improved our throughput. It has allowed our SQL databases and report servers to run at a much higher capacity. Reports which used to take the better part of a day can now run in under an hour.
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ManagerD1d2a
Manager, Data Center at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees
It has improved uptime, as well as speed to delivery.
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Scott Samowitz
Director Of Information Technology at Jacobsen Construction Company, Inc.
It has really improved performance. Before, we just had different storage devices based on different needs - so we didn't have to buy all-flash for everything. We couldn't do tiering. 3PAR was the first device that gave us that ability. It has really improved how we can streamline our storage purchases, as well as performance. It has done well.
View full review »It allowed us to put storage in remote facilities without purchasing a complete SAN solution.
View full review »It's a very critical technology component within our service offering. The storage sits central to everything else, such that it needs to be really robust. It needs to be highly available and it needs to be secure as well. All those things are very important. Because we're a service provider and we offer multitenancy, we need to be available to do that in a way such that we can host multiple clients’ data on the same storage system and in a secure fashion.
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The scalability has improved our organization. We can add to it, and we can future-proof it in that regard. It's flexible in that we can grow it or shrink it as our business demands require. It allows us to be flexible. Since we do have peaks and troughs in our data storage, we need to be able to either add, take stuff away, move things around for projects, and that's just what they can provide.
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We're almost entirely HPE outside of the network stack, so it's nice to have one place to call for support.
When comparing the cost to the comparable EMC solution at the time that we purchased it, 3PAR was significantly cheaper.
It was almost 100% financial decision. They had similar performance, similar build specs, but the business relationship with HPE was much greater. EMC didn't put their best quote forward when we did our bake off, they came in and put in a really high bid. When they found out we were going to go with 3PAR based almost 100% on the cost, they came back and gave us a better bid, but it was a little bit late at that point.
The technical aspect really were comparable. The difference with the EMC product was in the way that they cashed to their flash. HP's is strictly tiered based on a optimization. The EMC product, could cash reads for any tier into the flash. There was a performance advantage there the I don't know that we would have gotten. However, it was enough to make the decision easy.
We have a HP 3PAR C7200 storage array with a small portion of it being Flash. Even though it's a small percentage of our total SANs usable capacity, the applications that we run off it have greatly exceeded our expectations. I can't even fathom the performance increase of having an all-Flash array. Using HP's Adaptive Optimization including the Flash storage, it's great to see if one of our applications is under heavy stress to see it move to the Flash to increase performance for the end users. This, compared to our last standard SAN setup, has easily increased the performance and accessibility of our on-site applications ten-fold.
For the end users: This allows us to deliver content to them faster, access their files faster, load apps quicker, and increase stability of them, all to boot! This was a very imperative piece as we have an extraordinary first year of full 1-to-1.
For us (IT): Having the access to this technology has been amazing! This allows us to do so much with our virtual infrastructure. We can monitor things more accurately, move things around with no performance decrease, and, let's be honest, seeing all those IOPs is just fun!
Overall, having the Flash availability with a HP 3PAR Storage setup has been night and day from our last solution, and I can't wait to really start pushing it to it's true limits.
View full review »So a key example of how the HP 3PAR has benefited our organization would certainly be from a reputation point of view. HP 3PAR is globally well known as a very high end, if not the best storage offering. But in particular, again, drawing back to that performance requirement it also has a reputation around performance and it does deliver on promise. We make big promises to our clients around performance, we have to be able to back that up with a technology that will actually support that initiative.
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ITInfrasbaa1
IT Infrastructure Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us.
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reviewer1059243
Senior System & Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The bad news: In its initial firmware, both four-node clusters were locked down. The downtime was 17hrs, and once patched, it worked like a charm — no outage for two years. Whereas, IBM SVC had three outages (node crashes) with impact in the 2 yrs before
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Dharmendra Gurtata
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has kept our operations robust.
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Educatio154c
Educational Team Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I only offer HPE exclusively, so it fits with the other pieces. The storage, the servers, the compute, the networking. They're all part of the same suite.
View full review »The availability of the 3PAR array is the greatest benefit. The ability to perform upgrades to the machine while it remains online is very valuable. It saved us from making our systems unavailable. In addition, the tools that are built into the 3PAR array are a significant improvement and give us great visibility into what's actually being used and how it's being used. It has simplified the management of the array.
View full review »The biggest benefit is the ease of administration, since we only have one administrator – me. If I’m not there and others need to be able to allocate storage, I can give a step-by-step guide for my company to follow to do that; whereas if I had an EMC product, for example, we’d need two administrators. We’re an agricultural co-op so we have to run a very lean IT shop.
View full review »We are now using thin provisioned disks from 3PAR attached to hosts. Using this feature, along with chunklet RAID technology, we are able to reduce the overall physical storage by about 40%. This was a significant change, as we are now able to run more resources and VMs. Also, we are using adaptive optimization, which automatically analyses CPG (disk groups) and makes automatic decisions to move high I/O regions of CPG to faster disks. This makes the provisioned disks attached to hosts work smoothly under any load.
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NetworkM17fa
Network Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
It has improved the ability of the executives to get proper insights, because our old storage was not fast enough.
View full review »The team provisions and it has been wonderful for our environment. We manage hundreds of terabytes. It allows us to deliver more storage than other solutions. It allows us to have many files so we can provide better service for our customers.
View full review »The benefit of HPE 3PAR flash storage is the scalability. It generally has good reliability.
View full review »We have about 250 users on it and it's not messy. We're able to tailor it to our needs, including the GUI, which makes it easy to use.
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John Askew
Systems Architect at The University of Auckland
We're a big user of the adaptive optimization environment, so we have a tiered storage environment. We have SST, which is about five percent of the total environment. We have the 10K drive, which is about 25 percent of the environment and the remainder is the inline storage as drives being four terabyte drives.
View full review »We have consolidated our storage solution from six EVA's of various ages into a single 3PAR array.
View full review »We have implemented two 7400 arrays replacing older EVAs with replication, we used to use CLX (Cluster Extensions for EVA) for the Windows machines, but we never had anything but manual failover for the VMware environment.
With the 7400, we implemented Peer Persistence and this removed the requirement of CLX and also gave us a similar site protection in the VMware environment meaning that we no longer have to do a manual failover.
View full review »Less data is stored in silos, more is kept in this central solution with advantages of raid, tiering and backup. We are looking into Flash, we already own some violin boxes and have a small capacitiy of SSD disks in the 3PAR.
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Gustavo Galicia
Architect at GTE 24/7
All-flash provides optimization through deduplication and compression and provides high performance for both databases and virtualization. It has increased IOPS by 200 percent. In addition, it has reduced deployment time by ten percent.
One of our customers, using SAP, had 16 terabytes of data. When we implemented this solution for them, their storage was reduced to two terabytes.
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ServerAnae40
Server Analyst at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
The 3PAR arrays replicate offsite. Everything is safe and optimized. There's automatic promoting and demoting of blocks, moving hot ones to the flash storage and the less used ones onto Nearline storage. This optimizes everything and uses the resources to their best ability.
It has increased performance since we added the flash drives. Originally, we had 2-Tier storage (the Nearline storage and SAS storage), but adding the flash storage really improved performance by maybe 30 percent.
We can cut a VM quite quickly, so we can probably stand up a workload in half an hour. So, the time to deployment is quite good.
We have been able to back up our data more frequently now that we have everything on flash. It responds a lot faster, so the IOPs are a lot faster.
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Erik-Johnson
HP-UX System Admin at L3 Technologies Inc
The snapshotting capability allows us to do a database replication very quickly. As a result, we have some applications which need a fresh copy of the production database everyday, and we are able to give that to them by eight o'clock in the morning.
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SystemsE65a1
Systems Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
It makes for less administrative overhead.
The solution has improved our throughput by helping us keep up with the demand and acquisitions that we have been going through.
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SystemsEfd16
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We have more uptime, better trade times, and less hassle opening tickets with HPE.
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Wes Wimpey
Systems Architect at Greenville Health Systems
It is all a part of the GreenLake offering that we have, which includes monitoring, performance, and being able to accelerate delivery with the platform. This is most critical for us.
View full review »This has helped our organization with fast storage and the whole administration which is handled quite automatically. In this way, I can save one full time equivalent (FTE) a year in my team, so that alone is a great benefit.
View full review »Ease of management at the device level. Having the volume sets is a lot more efficient than we do on some other systems, so it's easier to group by host. That was definitely better than the other systems.
View full review »It's consistency. And again, it's going through to HPE for everything. And I know that my blade, my DL and my 3PAR are all going to work seamlessly together.
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SystemsE33b6
Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It allows us to grow. We added almost 110TB last year alone. Not a lot of product let you throw that in, resulting in the performance that we have been seeing.
It has definitely reduced our time to deployment. We can call up, and say, "I need 110TB," and they configure it so my IOPS stay consistent across 3PAR, Then, I don't actually have to worry about the IOPS. HPE takes care of that for me. I need the space, and they take care of the rest. They install it, and I just provision it, which is nice.
If you can handle the IOPS, throughput is a natural byproduct. Usually, IOPS is where you are capped. HPE has done a great job in making sure that our IOP-intensive EMRs stay up and running. We have really good performance on them.
We run approximately half a billion IOPS every six months. This 3PAR seems to handle it just fine.
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Raphael Gondim
Coordinator at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
I has helped our organization with DR and replication of our VM environment and Oracle databases.
The solution has improved our throughput, which has improved our performance.
View full review »We built a DR solution based on this, we can sustain our business for any amount of time, 24/7. We have minimized downtime to 10 minutes now, because of this solution.
We did not lose connectivity, as we did with the other units. We've had no failed drives. The system has been up and running for almost four years now and there has not been an issue anywhere.
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Besides from being cost effective, it's got a low-cost disk, upon which you can load any of your imaging stuff. Then, there are also the higher-cost disks, and the SSDs, which are phenomenally fast. SSDs make our systems work significantly faster. I've used SSDs before when I was a customer. Previous to this job, I was the infrastructure executive for a much larger company and we invested quite heavily in HPE 3PAR.
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Herve Garcia
Director, Systems & Architecture at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is not for us. We deploy solutions on-premise. We use this product for one of our customers.
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Director609e
Director Technology Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The ease of management is what changed. Where we had, in simple terms, about an hour's worth of work, it has minimized that to maybe one-tenth, or something to that effect. Instead of us having to do a lot of steps to ensure that our environment is where it needs to be from a storage perspective, because of the ease of management, the UI differences, it has allowed us to manage our environment.
View full review »Automation of the failover allows the IT department of the hospital to improve the availability of systems.
View full review »It's easy to manage. There is less need to manage the storage and we are more able to focus on the business.
View full review »We've recently embarked on a large-scale convergence project where we've consolidated about 250 physical servers to virtual servers. Those virtual servers are hosted onto 3PARs 7400 systems, which are located in two data centers. They give us high availability and real-time access to data in both locations. In terms of the value for business and the value for us, it's given us the facility to have a business continuity plan, which we never had before.
View full review »Although there's been a lot of technical advancement, one of my biggest beefs with HP's drive towards OneView as a management platform for this point is really around their licensing. It's been somewhat cost prohibitive. Obviously with the new release of OneView in the near future, the licensing model is going to change, but for customers who may already have a heavy investment in hardware infrastructure, who were not previously licensed with ILO Enterprise, for example, and did not have those rights for utilizing OneView, having to backtrack and buy all new licensing in order to be able accommodate that, in order to be able to manage their infrastructure, it kind of takes away from the whole simplification of having everything under a single pane of glass if you're now forced to have to go back and relicense initial investments to be able to take advantage of that technology.
That being said, I will state that it does look like HP understands and has recognized that, and I think that's really why they're trying to make the advancements and the changes that they are in terms of having that. They're pushing it to be that kind of single unified management infrastructure component, and knowing that they want to push customers towards that, I think they also recognize that in order to do that, they have to put some incentive there to make it worthwhile for customers to make that investment and change in their management strategy.
View full review »Probably the most beneficial aspect from my viewpoint is that it has reduced the amount of time that I spend administering storage requests by at least 50%. This allows us to keep pace with the ever growing amount of storage that our users require.
View full review »Some of the benefits that we're facing in using 3PAR, I did mention before, are around the ability to patch our systems quite easily. We can easily failover. We know that if there are any issues, we can continue to provide services. We recently had a power outage in Aukland, which tested our data centers, our mechanicals, and electricals in the data centers. It also helped us understand that if we did have a problem in one data center, we could easily file between the two very easily.
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ITManagec405
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Before using centralized storage, we needed to make sure that we have enough physical disks installed in a server. Now, we know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers. Again, in our case, it's mostly the databases.
All-flash positions our organization for growth in a way, mostly for performance, because again, we're using all-flash for the performance that it provides, and we have critical databases running on it. It's providing day-to-day functionality, the way I see it.
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Infrastrb292
Infrastructure Analysts at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has provided us our solution for VDIs, so it has been working very well.
Any infrastructure is an enabler that provides services for the applications that you run.
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Assistan151c
Assistance Administrator with 11-50 employees
It has allowed us to set up a fully functioning disaster recovery site with replication, which we have been able to configure between our 3PAR systems.
The solution has helped improved our throughput. It has helped our organization with our DR site and connections to our blade systems.
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SrEngine483a
Sr Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We are still transitioning to it.
View full review »The hope is right now it's going to empower us to lower mean time to resolutions. Since it's being used to support a virtual infrastructure, that gives us access to all of the benefits of a virtual infrastructure. So, instead of spending hours trying to rebuild or to fix a broken server, we can instead wipe it out and throw up a new one and we're up and running again.
It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc.
View full review »Certainly now, with the all-flash arrays, the performance that we get out of those means that we can host far more VMs on a smaller virtual volume. We get much better performance out of those volumes now.
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PaulMarshall
Infrastructure SME at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
With the HPE GreenLake Flex feature, we can grow as required, and at present, we are growing faster than our requirements, so we need to look to develop and innovate.
I can play with it real time, all day. There's no need for a very dedicated planning for the future because I always can change it.
View full review »We count on that it works and it's always on; at a quarter of the price. The price and the reliability are key for us.
View full review »The great value is the integration with the hardware and the software which really has great features that they develop over time. The system we bought back in 2012/13 and installed in 2013 is no longer in the system we are using now in 2016. This is because the software evolved so much and features were added to the system we purchased three years ago. It still adds new features that which we can leverage on the day-to-day use and make the storage investment more profitable and the storage resources more efficient.
View full review »It makes us more flexible because we can extend our storage size easily. But the most important advantage, again, is our flexible contract with HP. It's a technically wonderful product, but it's also wonderful because of the contract. We have no CapEx and no long-term investment on the contract because we're paying just a monthly rate.
View full review »The 3PAR arrays provide excellent performance for a very reasonable price point.
View full review »Ease of administration, cutting down the time to do things when we do migrate arrays, looking into the stats and making sure we've got, the applications are performing like they're supposed to.
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TechDire6cb5
Tech Director Data Centers with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is status quo from what we came from. We came from ViON and Hitachi. Part of that is our own problem. It is not as much HPE, as to how we are using it. We lifted and shifted, identically from one system to another.
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Doug Newell
Engineering Services Manager at Muckleshoot
Less management.
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Infrastrd82a
Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We went to an Active-Active data center, set it up to where both data centers are separate, but they act as one. We can have workloads at either side at any given time, and it is all based on the Peer Persistence architecture.
View full review »It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick. Even the support is 24/7.
View full review »It's advantageous in terms of the cost, in terms of the performance, and taking up less space. We are exploring more with this storage.
View full review »No improvement for the organization, it's "only" storage, but due to moving from one system to two systems, we are now able to use fail-over and load-balancing functions on different locations.
View full review »It is easy to use. The OS and the UI are straightforward. It's all manageable inside HPE OneView and it is attached to HPE Synergy. It's a unified experience. It really sucks going through 10 different systems and trying to fit all of them in. It takes too long and it is confusing. In fact, being unified is what it is all about. Being unified is the biggest win and the biggest draw.
View full review »I am not sure that there are benefits over other solutions. It's just that we've always used HPE. I think it comes down again to be more about support and the scalability.
View full review »It's really taken away a few headaches that we had. It's one of those things you know it's there until you get something that's built for what we want to do, it was matched to what our requirements were. It's provided huge turnaround for us.
View full review »I think it leverages our investments of using this multi-tiered storage approach. We have SSDs, we have SAS, and we have inline SAS, so we're able to have a lot more teams running in one environment rather than having to build separate environments, and understand which applications need high performance and which don't need high performance. 3PAR does that thinking for us using it's adaptive optimization. It's been successful for us. The technology is sound, they used 3PAR quite heavily in our organization. It's been a quite good experience.
View full review »The organization was able to consolidate disparate storage environments into a single chassis with multiple connection types, utilize the different disk tiers across all software/hardware connected platforms, all the time providing the fastest disk to the most utilized portions of storage as determined by the controllers.
View full review »Our biggest one was the overall performance. Our SQL servers are performing better now, and because it’s easy to provision, more team members can provision who weren’t comfortable doing so before hand.
View full review »During the migration process, we have had to troubleshoot less than in the past.
View full review »It gave me flexibility in moving things around, for example, I could move the production LUN and test LUNs from RAID 5 to RAID 6 in order to have more redundancy disk failures.
View full review »We have not had a moment's down time.
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Carsten Cimander
Senior Consultant at Computacenter
This solution has allowed for massive performance acceleration of all workloads and massively increased availability (with peer persistence/transparent failover feature).
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Hamilton Ribeiro Dos Santos
IT Manager at Maquinas Jacto
It has provided a robust technology which provides us with fast access to the data. This is one of the areas where it has improved our company.
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Director9019
Director at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
We've had an overall improvement of performance in terms of actually doing transaction data, and we have a lot more capacity than we once had.
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Kasper Billeskov
Storage Service Architect at NNIT
For the past three years, all-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage, based on the 3PAR platform.
View full review »It has helped us work much better.
View full review »We're using Peer-to-Peer for two data centers and having that fill over instantaneous is what we really needed for disaster recovery.
View full review »- We removed a lot of the restrictions of our old storage solution so we would have better performing applications.
- We didn’t have to worry about storage anymore.
We are in healthcare and we do a lot of imaging with huge amounts of data. If and when we need more storage space, extending 3PAR is easy. It has made everything more simple.
View full review »Since 3PAR is self tuning and it optimizes itself to a better level of performance, then that translates to the application level and the business users can get their functions done quicker and more efficiently.
View full review »Our particular function works to coordinate with our capacity teams to define the requirements and then they come to us and say they need this amount of storage attached and so forth. From a technical standpoint, I'm not really well versed in that particularly. Internally in our company it's more about defining how we need the storage set up so that the teams that implement the storage necessary for applications meets the customer's expectation, or internal customer expectation.
View full review »It's a lot more automated and a lot easier, which provides us with a better business continuity solution.
View full review »Less downtime, unlike our previous solution.
View full review »As a 3PAR consultant, I have installed systems for a lot of customers, municipalities, and other state authorities. I cannot speak for them, but the results are very good. The possibility/feature to move data across tiers (AO) has been a great feature, and of course the possibility to non-disruptively migrate from current storage system to 3PAR.
View full review »We are using a lot less power and space with this SAN compared to our previous solution. This SAN only takes a third less power and capacity, yet it provides almost twice the performance.
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Payman Maher
Storage Specialist at Informatics Services Corporation
This solution has provided me with very low latency and high performance.
View full review »We upgraded from HPE EVA and it was much easier to manage and provision LUNs, when necessary. Our EVA was maxed and was end of life.
The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available.
View full review »Having moved over from a LeftHand, which was seven or eight years old, there's a massive boost in performance. It has definitely improved the speed, the responsiveness, of all our applications, which is always good.
View full review »We started to initiate a business continuity project, to cover disaster recovery scenarios, and we decided to implement a 3PAR solution for the Remote Copy functionality from this area. We can share this with software integration and cover the business requirements.
View full review »We are trying to create a valued addition, because the project is still on, and we are looking at how it can benefit the business more. It's a new solution in place which we are looking at now.
This product is scalable, i.e., when you have a need for the performance and to grow online, without having any downtime. It's really optimized for any application.
View full review »It runs all the time. I've never had a problem with it. Upgrades have been flawless. We've had controllers die in the middle of the day, and it was no big deal. We've had shelves die in the middle of the day with no impact to our end users whatsoever.
View full review »It's a better solution because we can operate faster than before.
View full review »We use all of HP's services, so HP is a big partner of ours. Staying with HP for storage means we don't need to switch partners.
View full review »We had unexpected capacity growth. We informed the integrator what was going on and they were able to work with HP, forecast what we needed, and install it overnight without any downtime.
View full review »Increase provisioning time and reduce configuration complexity based on chunklet technology. It supports advanced virtualization services on storage operations and virtual computing infrastructure.
View full review »Scaling and performance. Easy to add shelves, easy to move data around while everything is hot, move data from tier to tier, expanding a LUN, there are so many ways it's just amazing how much it's helped! The snapshot and sending them to different tiers by using the CPG makes life a bit easier!
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Computerd47b
Computer Systems Administrator at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees
It provides us some disaster recovery capabilities. The all-flash storage gives us the performance that we need.
The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us.
We use InfoSight predictive analytics. The most useful part of it is being able to see the growth curve.
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ManagerL4e9d
Manager Lab Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Right now we are looking at automation. Based on my conversation with 3PAR, they are using Ansible to automate the provisioning, so that simplifies the day-to-day operations.
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DataCentc0ab
Data center team lead at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has not changed the way we function a whole lot. We were on the P9500 Array before and it had similar capabilities, just different ways of doing it. Still, it has worked well for us.
View full review »I am a system integrator, so we sell a lot of 3PAR Storage to our customers. Our business has increased compared to previous days.
View full review »We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space. We feel as we spread things out that we have become more efficient in our performance.
View full review »If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do. Gives us peace of mind.
It's the performance that we need. Before, we had another system and we noticed that the performance wasn't enough, so now we have two types of 3PAR systems, the 20850 all-flash and also the 8450 all-flash. We can really see that the performance is much, much better and the latencies are much lower. That's what we needed.
View full review »- Always online
- Easy to service
- Easy to manage
- Really provides powerful advanced management and troubleshooting
It has been easier to provision storage and it has been faster using it.
View full review »Now we have a reliable solution, divided over two data centers. The peer persistence solution provides us with a viable disaster recovery solution. We can do failover to the other site without interruption; and we can also do upgrades without interruption.
View full review »It is a very responsive system with no latencies and high performance.
View full review »The solution hasn’t benefited the entire company. It's a special solution that has provided benefit for part of the company. We have global data instruments around the world. This tool has allowed us to decrease the data import time from nine hours to just one hour.
View full review »We have zero downtime with 3PAR. This saves us a lot of money as the business stays up and running.
View full review »The ability for the PAR array to thin provision, effectively means that we can buy only what we need for the first year, and then plan and manage the data for future growth. What this means, is better value for money and long term cost savings.
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Eduardo Fontanella
Infrastructure Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
All our data is in 3PAR.
Our application worked well after we implemented the 3PAR solution.
View full review »We have 24 hour production, so it is working.
View full review »It is working well. IT achieves our targets. We have been running faster and more efficiently since 3PAR was installed.
View full review »We've had faster internet connectivity and improved communications between various groups in our organization. And of course, this means that we are more efficient and can use resources more cost-effectively.
View full review »We built our data warehouse around it, which now operates much more efficiently. We have a smaller footprint, thus saving us physical space and costs associated with larger structures.
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Jay Liu
Manager Of Storage And Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Forest who actually take a back up of our databases, like snapshot, to another volume and snapchat to be melded for a different operating systems, which has helped us tremendously as far as speed and time to completion.
View full review »I had a lot of problems with storage before. When I implemented this solution, the storage was faster. There is very little down time.
View full review »Stability has been the greatest benefit of the solution.
View full review »We now have the ability to expand storage on-demand as needed. The application won’t run out of space as it's really easy to add a disk and continue without any interruption.
View full review »Primarily good performance because it's an all-flash system. Basically, the applications run faster.
View full review »It's just something that we added because of its price-point, speed and performance.
View full review »We have approximately 100 companies renting servers and storage from us. We are using HPE 3PAR to achieve a hybrid IT solution, combined with Asher.
It helps us earn money.
View full review »3PAR's ease-of-use has really improved our functioning because it requires less administration and less tuning. It really just works.
View full review »Reporting has always been a challenge for our company. Add-on tools for reporting purposes are often expensive and require additional configuration. The 3PAR build in reporting features were the answer to all our reporting woes. We are now able to report as often as we would like, including automated report generating.
View full review »The benefit is that it doesn't crash.
View full review »It's simplified our management and increased the speed of our applications. We're able to use different solutions on 3PAR. It's become easier and faster to do.
View full review »We are able to replicate our Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) easily from one 3PAR device to another.
With our old SAN storage, it was either too complicated to do LUN replication or not available at all.
View full review »It enables growth from the existing array due to the thin provisioning suite.
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Adminitrd884
Assistant Manager of Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It helps our core applications run very fast. It has increased overall performance by about 60 percent. There is one process which has gone from taking seven hours to taking one hour. It's a key for storage in our organization.
View full review »This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance.
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Pnina Sharir
Works at MPRest
Provides amazing performance all day in multiple workloads. We applied different usage models which showed great performance.
View full review »It's the basis of the storage of one of our five companies. All ERP and customer products rely on 3PAR storage. It's used heavily every day.
It has given us higher performance over our servers/applications, which work better now than with our previous storage system.
View full review »We started our cloud journey based on this storage solution and upgraded later on to achieve the desired IOPS.
View full review »Data security was greater and the system worked faster.
View full review »The benefit is that it's one big solution and then we have all of the flash functions.
View full review »It's helped us with data redundancy, which makes our system run more efficiently. Also, the interface is user friendly, but it requires a little training to know all the different functionalities and options.
View full review »Our storage management has been simplified and the performance has improved.
View full review »- Incredible performance
- Automation
- Ease of use
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ITManagedead
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Everything runs smoothly.
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Somboon Leeputtaphan
System Specialist at True Digital Group
It has high availability, and it's flexible to tuning for system admin.
View full review »System response time.
View full review »Our cost savings are significant because it performs much better with greater efficiency. We can now virtualize our environments and bring in all storage into those environments.
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