HPE 3PAR StoreServ Scalability
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reviewer1751949
Independent consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is easy to scale. It is normally used for enterprise companies.
View full review »I rate HPE StoreServ eight out of 10 for scalability. When we need to scale up, we can continue adding capacity within 3PAR after one year or two years. Some OEMs may recommend purchasing the newest storage model. They offer a better incentive because the new product is cheaper than the upgrade. Storage technology is constantly improving, making it cheaper and cheaper.
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Sylvan
Works at renesas
The solution is scalable. We plan to increase the number of users in the organization. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
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StorageA404a
Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I would rate scalability as a nine out of 10.
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Syed-Hassan
General Manager IT at Chase Up
We have approximately three terabytes of usage.
The solution is scalable, we are able to add more hardware if needed, such as hard drives.
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Marty Riedling
Systems Engineer Manager at Ingles Markets, Incorporated
The scalability is good. Our storage is small. We don't have petabytes. We have an 8200 right now and only have 16 drives on it. Therefore, we have a lot of room for growth.
All-flash positions our organization for growth. Currently, we are using all-flash, and with the dedupe, it makes it cheaper for us to deploy than other systems.
View full review »Scalability is possible with only the existing drives. The product does not accept the latest drives like the NVMe drives. We have 15 users.
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SanAndStd11c
SAN and Storage Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Scalability is very good. We have replaced multiple 3PAR systems with just one or two 3PARs, because of how they scale in the all-flash environment.
View full review »Our newer array is much more scalable than I had in the past. I don't anticipate ever reaching a limit on it.
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reviewer1409538
ICT Director KA Infra at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
HPE 3PAR Flash Storage was scalable in the past but in the current market, it is a four out of ten. You are not able to add more power to the solution, it is not stackable.
We have approximately 6,000 users using this solution.
View full review »Scalability is not an issue. If someone has 3PAR and within one or two years, they find that they need to add more storage, it would not be an issue. It will scale perfectly fine.
We have already consumed around 87% of the storage. We may have to add another tree. We had a discussion with HPE, and it was quite good. The only reason for not going forward with it was that the amount of money that we will be spending in just upgrading the storage has a life of only two and a half years now. We are now evaluating whether we should invest this much money for two and a half years, or we should invest more and buy a completely new storage. We can then use this storage for other backups and all those less important steps.
From the application side, we have 50 users. There are also a lot of other users who are connecting to the applications and the storage because their data resides on the storage. For its maintenance, we don't require any engineers.
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reviewer1337562
Sr, Storage Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
In general, the solution can scale. That shouldn't be a problem.
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Mark Frenette
HPC Architect at Nuance Communications
We typically max them out. When we buy an array, we buy a SAS-based array with 480 drives. We use a clustered file system on it that prefills the LUNs, so it looks likes it's full the day that we get it. We receive sales calls asking, "You are beyond 95 percent full, do you want to buy another one?" However, we have not even started yet!
When we want to scale, we buy another one. We spread the filesystem horizontally across arrays.
View full review »We have 15,000 hard drives today across all our storage arrays. We have not reached the point yet where we don't see the 3PAR devices not being able to scale for us. The innovation, like flash introduction with 3PAR, is actually gonna accelerate the fact that we can get more performance and more capacity in the near future.
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reviewer969309
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
At one point, some remote copy groups stopped working, and we used a disaster recovery plan because, in production, we replicate everything from A to B and then split up into some remote copy groups, gathering together some data source and clusters. If one of those remote copy groups stops, you don't have DFP anymore and you have to restart them. And last year after starting one of those replication groups; we had some performance issues because they're trying to get in sync as soon as possible using all the resources, so we had to plan very well outside the business hours.
I think it does a very good job. We're a law firm. So we store a lot of data. The way a law firm operates, you can't really predict the growth of data because they don't know the cases they're going to take on. A given case may have a terabyte of data and another case will have 15 terabytes of data. You really can't tell.
So the ability for us to quickly grow the platform, scale the platform up, is important. But as important is ensuring that, as we scale, it doesn't impact the existing users. We definitely don't have much of an issue with the growth of any of the platforms, be it the 7200 or the 7400. For us, especially on the 3PAR, HPE tends to hand-hold us through most of the scaling so I really don't have too much of an issue with it. We have a huge 7400 in our data center with about 200 or 300 terabytes of data on it.
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Peter Sachs
Storage Infrastructure Engineer at Cambridge Health Alliance
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is scalable but it has limits.
We have approximately 5,000 users using this solution across all departments. The solution is being extensively used in our organization.
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Jeff Stone
Solutions Architect at Optio Data
If I need to step up performance-wise, I can add additional controllers. As far as different systems, if I need to go between the 8000, 9000 or the 20000, I can get into the multi-petabyte and still maintain massive performance, if needed. Therefore, I can start low, even with small businesses. I can look at a two-node 8200, but then if I need to go big, I can get into the eight-node 20000.
It is a nice family of products. It adjusts for even the smallest client and largest business clients.
View full review »3PAR is easy to scale up and scale out. It can serve a production workload without any problem. To scale up, you can have another inclusion in 3PAR. To scale out, you can add another controller. You can also have more IOPs in your production.
We have 5,000 users of this solution. The main workload is in 3PAR now. I will also implement 3PAR on another site.
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Dwayne Vidi
Director of Technology at a university
We just added an SSD tier to it, so we're even leveraging that. We literally have three tiers of storage, SSD, fast class storage, and a slower storage state.
We haven't had needed to do much, other than add the SSD tier, at this point. Normally, we try to guess at our storage needs for about a five-year turnaround time, and then from there we usually buy another storage system to replace at that point. I don't know if we'll go to that model, with the 3PAR. It has been so rock solid that I might look into just extending support on it. So it may save us money on storage systems in the long run.
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SushilKumar1
Security Officer at Videocon Intelligent Security Private Limited
It is scalable and easily expands.
We have various customers on the solution. They might have thousands of users overall, however, we have four to five clients using the product in general.
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Solution7c6e
Solutions Architect
The scalability is good because it is easy to add in new disks. We just add them on the fly, and they are available for use. We do not have to go in, then configure then. We just put the disks in, then they are available, so it is easy.
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Tony Rigby
CTO for Microsoft & Infrastructure Platforms at Amey
I'm normally used to reaching the point of a system where you just can't expand it any further and need to do a step change, swapping out a base unit or something like that. With 3PAR, that problem doesn't exist -- you just keep adding to it and capacity grows in a nice, linear fashion. If I want to add just a terabyte, I don't have to add 100 terabytes. Expansion of 3PAR is very, very smooth.
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Tomas Stasek
Head of IT Department at Sonepar
With respect to the capacity, it is easy to add to. We just have to get more boxes with hard drives. We have quite a small environment so, in terms of scalability, it's okay for us. We have never needed to expand.
There are four of us who administer the 3PAR. I am an IT manager and I have three colleagues in my team.
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reviewer1473348
SAN Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
You have to be careful about exactly what your usage is. You really need to understand what you want to do with the controller. You need to understand what your total IOP performances will be, before you do any sizing so that you can size appropriately, otherwise, as with any storage, you could have an underutilized controller. That would then cause you frustration and business units would suffer as you would have slower performance than what you expected.
A lot of times customers get themselves in trouble due to the fact that they make a purchase or size a controller and then later on they undersized it. Sometimes the under-sizing can occur due to the fact that a company starts putting more demand on the new stores where they want to put one more device on the storage product or connect to it, and that wasn't what it was sized for at the time. If you didn't plan on the growth of the utilization of the controllers the product doesn't look like it's performing properly, however, indeed it is. It's just, not big enough to handle the new user profile that you have put on it.
Microsoft Exchange, VMware, SQL, and Oracle - those are the types of software or devices that are applications that were used within our environment. We have several different departments or groups that get access to that storage.
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SystemsAd3f7
Systems And Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It definitely scales.
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SrEngine62c7
Sr. Engineer at a leisure / travel company
It meets and exceeds all my expectations. It is easy to scale. It is fairly inexpensive to scale. It easily does whatever I need it to do.
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WayneCross
Director IT at Borden Ladner
It's very scalable as well. We never had a problem where that is concerned.
View full review »I rate the tool's scalability an eight out of ten. It has ten users.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
This is a highly scalable system.
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Tye Summerville
IT Operations Manager at ACCC INSURANCE COMPANY
Scalability is incredible. We have a single server cabinet today, but we can grow it to as many cabinets as we need.
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ProjectD7fc0
Project Development Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Being able to add drives on the fly gives the solution scalability.
View full review »It is a scalable solution. We have around 500 customers using it.
View full review »The tool is scalable.
View full review »It's scalable. Only now it has reached end-of-life.
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Directora818
Director of North America at a sports company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability of this solution is excellent.
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NetworkAd9ed
Network Admin at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
So far, we have not had to scale up. However, that day may be coming, and we actually provisioned our 3PAR to be scalable in the future. So, I think the scalability is pretty good considering HPE helped us design and implement it in a way where we can scale up when needed.
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SrStorag7e72
Sr. Storage Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Regarding scalability, we are maxed out right now on all our 3PARs, so we can not add more storage. So we just order a new one and it's fine.
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VirtualizationSysAdmin415
Virtualization Systems Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees
Scalability is improving. We have some 7400s, 8200s, and 8400s. So, we can scale pretty well.
View full review »It is scalable. You can add storage quite easily.
We have only 10 users. It is a small system.
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Helder Valente
Infrastructure and Networks at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
This is a scalable product. We have approximately 1,000 users in our organization.
We are considering the possibility of a move to Primera or PowerMax.
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SystemsM2aeb
Systems Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We haven't any issues with scalability. We have added a lot of different shelves to it, we have close to about 400 terabytes. It has done pretty well in that regard.
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Jose Newman
IT Architect at Oncor Electric Delivery
As we transform and we're starting to move data, much more data, we're looking at the scalability. I don't have any indicators that it will not scale, but there is a lot of analysis we have to do. We're doing modeling of that data right now to see what decisions we will make in 2019. I am assuming we will maintain at least some 3PAR, but we may have to compliment it with something else, based on the demands we have around our data.
View full review »These are mid-range storage solutions that can be scaled up to 700TB of space depending on the type of disks we use. It does have enterprise solutions that can scale up to eight controller nodes with 1.8PB of usable capacity. However, we have a 7400 and a 7450 with lot of provisioning done to ESX systems with thousands of VMs.
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View full review »The tool’s scalability is good. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten. The product is not for users. It is used by an application. We are using 70% of the total capacity of the tool. We are looking to change the solution.
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reviewer281076
Director of Technology Services at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
It's a scalable solution.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution is scalable and we have approximately 10 customers using this solution.
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Leonardo Amarello
System Engineer at GEBE
It is very scalable and simple. The moment that you understand the product, it is straightforward to use. That is one of the most important things when it comes to our administrators. They don't like complex things.
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Principa0182
Principal Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We upgraded scalability-wise, and it just hummed along. It was easy.
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Philip Sellers
Solutions Engineer at AmWINS Group, Inc.
We've got plenty of room to grow. We're about three or four years into our 3PARs and we've still got more than at least about 50% of our drive shelves open, so we have a lot more room to grow. With each generation of drive that comes out, we can install bigger and more capable drives in it, so we haven't hit any scale issues there.
View full review »We have not encountered any scalability issues. This device can scale both up and out. It is exceptionally versatile.
View full review »Scalability is always a matter of price of course, but you can put in new disks with no problem at all.
View full review »I don't know if you can really fix this but to upgrade from 2 nodes to 4 can be a hassle because you have to re-balance everything. So you have to either do a lot of work or duplicate what you've got which can be expensive. I don't know if there's a good way to fix that though, other than start with 4 nodes.
I think we're getting towards the upper end of what we have and with what HPE would consider our array is capable of and what percentage of that would be helpful, so we don't have to try and guess. Because you know you ask how many IOPS an SSD can get and they'll say, "Yeah, 2000 to 3000," something like that. Who knows what you're actually going to be able to get out of it. Based on your IO size and things like that, being able to see a clear picture would be cool.
View full review »If my company doubled in size, I could scale it well.
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VijayKumar20
GM at SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant
This product is scalable and we have more than 100 users. We are planning to increase the amount of storage space.
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Tomas Stasek
Head of IT Department at Sonepar
I think that its scalability is good. You can have up to eight storage units and you can vary the storage rate. For example, we need quick database storage so we rate that high, compared to some other applications of lower importance.
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Infrastr6155
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're at right around 700 or 750 terabytes raw, and we're about maxed out for the version we're in, without a wholesale swap-out of our drives and drive architecture. From a scalability standpoint, we can add to it but we have to add more controllers. But we're in an older version. The newer versions have gotten better, faster, stronger. Probably the next step is going to be Greenlake and that avenue.
View full review »I think the scalability is one of the factors that caused us to select 3PAR.
View full review »We weren’t able to do it last year just for budgetary reasons but we recently doubled our footprint with the 3PAR and we probably have plans to purchase at least another shelf. It’s just an easy platform to grow and the 7200 is the smallest model, so for a small shop like me it’s gonna take about half a rack. It’s pretty good.
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Brian-Earnst
Enterprise Architect at Blessing Hospital School of Medical Laboratory Technology
We have not scaled it up yet.
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Steve Davidek
IT Manager at City Of Sparks
It's very scalable.
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UnixAdmi6d0e
Unix Admin at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability is easy. We just had HPE come out and put in a whole other shelf for us, for more storage. You can scale it out almost indefinitely. It works amazingly, I'm a huge fan.
View full review »It is easy and efficient. It should meet our future needs when we need to scale.
It’s very scalable.
View full review »We have not had problems with scalability.
View full review »Overall our ability to add storage increase the IOs, on demand and as needed, I can't ask a whole lot more based upon the choices that we made. There are of course more scalable aspects of 3PAR out there than what we have landed on, but based upon what we utilize and the choices that we made, we're still well within. Of course, the beauty of storage and a business is that anytime you build it, they find ways to fill it up. And so we've continued to stay on top of that.
With the insight that we get as far as disc usage, we are actually able to more properly calculate our capacity though with thin provisioning. So we're not just stamping out storage and saying, hey, it's wholly dedicated, we have no idea kind of what our growth is. You know, it's wasted over here and needed over here. We don't run into that. It's used through the thin provisioning capabilities across the platform. So that's another aspect of scalability that I think, you know, you don't necessarily find in other systems.
View full review »I would say it's very scalable. I mean, we're not at the point now where we've had to increase the size of our SAN. But from what I've seen on paper and my discussions with the HP engineers, we're very comfortable that we're in a good spot for the next three to five years, with the solution that we selected. However, we know that if we need to move to a higher tier of a solution, that we'll feel comfortable in bringing another product in because of the flexibility the seamless transition from one platform in the 3PAR lineup to another.
View full review »We haven’t really scaled. We have a nice sized array right now, as we’ve just started the migration process. But we have the ability to scale if we need it. We have 25 HP 3PAR devices right now, and will get 25 more. We also have 50 EMCs that we’ve been trying to migrate over from.
View full review »No, there is plenty of room to grow.
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David Barrientos
IT Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
We have not yet tried to scale this solution.
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IctCounte381
ICT Country Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
In theory, the scalability is supposed to be fast, but we don't know until we try.
It does position our organization for growth by making things faster and easier.
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RajeshSrinivasan
Director at HCL Technologies
We have to go through the non-rolling part of it, and that takes time. We are waiting from HPE to hear (possibly next year) how better InfoSight will be coming into the picture. We are looking for more developments on that front.
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Jason Hetzler
Supervisor Infrastructure at Blessing Health System
We are taking somewhat of a different approach. We are going more towards a hybrid solution in our data center. We are focusing more on developing our hyperconverged technology, and expanding it. We are going to buy eight nodes this year and eight nodes next year. Eventually, we are not going to want to buy large storage devices and probably utilize just storage, but in a different manner going forward.
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Alan Drummond
Delivery Director at Schneider Electric
Scalability looks excellent as well.
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GlobalMa4cee
Global manager, servers and storage at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
It is massively scalable. It's very easy to add more capacity, it's very easy to add more modules if required. It's the same with the licensing model. I think the licensing model changed last year, or two years ago, and now it's much more flexible.
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Branimir Kusanic
Head Of IT Data Center at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I can say it is scalable because initially, when we bought our first 3PAR, we extended it up to its maximum over the years. That is the part, maybe, where I see room for improving for HPE. Extending is not a problem, scalability is okay. But once you buy additional box of disks, you have to wait for HPE to contact you with their plan for implementation, for connecting, and it can take several weeks. So, you have the box and you have to wait for several weeks to actually implement it.
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Steve Davidek
IT Manager at City Of Sparks
It's very scalable.
View full review »I think our customers will use it for the long term, even though they are now on the way to change. I think the special environment we are working in, they will use it for some years, and it is scalable.
The scalability is good.
View full review »Scaling is really easy. We can do online scale-ups adding more capacity and adding controllers without impact to the serviceability of the system. It’s all very good.
View full review »We never buy just for what we need at the time, we always try to make sure we get the full lifecycle use of the product, and so with 3PAR, it might include having the expandability to add more shelves, or looking at the drives that are denser and things like that, so being able to mix and match parts and stuff.
The scalability has always been there as well, and like I said, in the old version of the BladeSystem, the c7000, that was around for like 10 years, so it's scaled very well. I've never had a problem with scaling.
View full review »Around 20 customers use the solution extensively in their companies.
I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a seven out of ten for scalability.
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teamlead968247
Team Leader Presales at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
We haven't attempted to scale the solution yet. Therefore, I can't speak to how easy it would be to expand it.
That said, from what I've seen, it does appear to be simple to scale.
We have 100 users on the product right now.
At this point, we do not have plans to increase usage.
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Emir Erkara
IT Coordinator at HMY
3PAR is highly scalable.
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Cindy Cecutti
Director IT at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
This is a scalable solution.
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ITManage04a2
IT Manager at a energy/utilities company
We have not found the maximum scalability yet. For what our initial purchase was, we have been able to grow over the past five years. It has not limited us in anyway with our initial investment.
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ManagerD1d2a
Manager, Data Center at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees
We have no issues with scalability. We have been scaling up.
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MarioSolano
VP Infrastructure at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees
We believe it will meet our needs in the future. In fact, we already did an upgrade to the 3PAR, because another company was moving to the same location we use and we didn't have enough space. It was really easy, we just had to add more hard drives and another chassis. It was very straightforward to do the upgrade and scale the 3PAR.
It was a matter of hours. Once the chassis was installed, and then the upgrade was added to the chassis - adding the drive - it took a couple hours to do the whole thing.
View full review »Scalability has been great. As we have needed to add storage, its just a matter of adding the disk and then, adding them to the bulk.
View full review »I suppose that those types of highly scalable environments that perhaps larger service providers need; we don't really push the boundaries of the product in that sense, too much. There are some step changes you have to make, I suppose, as you grow, which you'd prefer not to. You have to invest, maybe, in more enclosures or those kind of things, whereas you'd like it to be a bit smoother.
From a financial point of view, which is probably the main challenge there, HPE are providing solutions for that in the terms of flexible capacity, where they help part share the financial responsibility and give you a more linear and smooth scaling of the system, and help you fund that.
View full review »We have a large population of students and we have gone full one-to-one this year. We are striving to deliver content to them as seamlessly as possible to encourage a learning environment where they can get to everything they need without having to think about it. This can be quite a challenge just by the sheer diverse volume of data that the students use. Everyday is a new challenge that we are more than happy to tackle head-on.
View full review »So the scalability of 3PAR, bearing in mind we operate cloud platforms in New Zealand is far beyond what we need because our market is fairly small, and so being able to scale to multiple petabytes on a single SAN is great to know that it can do that, but it's not something we've had to worry about in terms of an overall capacity limit.
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AhsanulHaque
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
This solution is scalable. If I need more storage, they can just plug in to add it. I haven't faced this issue yet, but it seems like an easy process. I believe 3PAR is most suitable for small or medium sized companies.
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ITInfrasbaa1
IT Infrastructure Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are just a customer, who bought a solution and are running it. We don't really do much about it. From what I know, the scalability should be okay. Generally, it was one of the reasons why we purchased 3PAR, because we believed we will grow, etc. However, it is difficult in the public sector if you can't do an RFP for a specific product. So, you need to live with whatever you buy or whatever is the best combination on the market.
We haven't really purchase any more 3PARs after our initial buy, and that was a few years ago.
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Dale Nelson
Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are in a mid-size company, and the 8000 series has been good. We are not utilizing all of it, so we have the ability to expand. We have a project right now that we are looking at expanding, so from that standpoint it is good.
You can get way into the 20000 series and just cut into petabytes of data out there. I like that it moves from entry level to as high as you need to go.
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Dharmendra Gurtata
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
For us it's scalable, absolutely. We are not using it that much. It can scale beyond our needs.
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Educatio154c
Educational Team Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's modular so you can add more. It is scalable.
View full review »For us, scalability is fine.
View full review »Scalability seems to be very good. I think it's been one of the strengths of HPE products in the array space for a long time. With 3PAR, the scalability is excellent.
View full review »It meets our needs. I don’t foresee a point where we won’t be able to meet our needs with 3PAR.
View full review »The scalability is superb. New disks can added without any downtime at any point, and any provisioned disk can be expanded on-line.
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reviewer372459
Sr. Manager - IT Systems at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is scalable and a company can expand it if they want to.
We only have 100 people that actually use the solution.
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NetworkM17fa
Network Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
It is good.
View full review »In terms of scalability, once we made the capacity planning in the very beginning, we did not need increased capacity. Our operation is stable. We manage a certain kind of volume of data. We don't need to increase so frequently. We have been working with the capacity with which we started at the beginning.
View full review »Scalability is very good. The 3PAR is very modular, so we can just install more modules as we need.
View full review »We just got up as much as we need. We had no issues with scalability.
View full review »The array was fully built out when purchased. The only scalability available is to stripe the file system across a second array, which is a very viable option.
View full review »The products that we bought both scale very easily, and were bought knowing what the maximum was (which increased on the 7200 from the time of purchase).
View full review »No issues with scalability.
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reviewer1505493
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
The product used to be very scalable but its end of life will be in about a year so there's no point to upgrade or enhance it.
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Gustavo Galicia
Architect at GTE 24/7
The 3PAR solution has a problem with scalability.
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ServerAnae40
Server Analyst at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
We could add more drive cages, so I'm sure it's quite scalable. We haven't hit our limits yet, so we haven't had to do that. However, it's supposed to be quite scalable.
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Erik-Johnson
HP-UX System Admin at L3 Technologies Inc
It is very scalable. We can grow it up to the size that it will contain. Then, we have to move to another array, a bigger one, if we have to. However, my understanding is that is a pretty seamless process.
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SystemsE65a1
Systems Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
It does help with the growth, mainly in some of the point of sale systems that we need.
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SystemsEfd16
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We haven't really had to add anything to it recently.
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Wes Wimpey
Systems Architect at Greenville Health Systems
It has been rock solid for us.
View full review »In terms of scalability, it's quite scalable.
View full review »The main issue is the 16TB LUN limit. This bug has not been addressed for years!
View full review »We are on the verge of the next step up. We implemented last year and now we are going to double the capacity. Based on how it’s going so far, it will be an easy step up.
View full review »We have a few arrays. We have scaled up a little bit. It's been pretty easy to rebalance the arrays while we were scaling. I'm overall happy with that.
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reviewer1021158
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This solution is scalable. We have 50 users in our company and our clients have approximately 500 people who are using it.
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SystemsE33b6
Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is phenomenal.
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Raphael Gondim
Coordinator at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is awesome.
All-flash positions our organization for growth. We have more places for Oracle applications, VMware, and servers.
View full review »We have issues with scalability because 3PAR has limited storage capacity, so we have to invest more after a while.
View full review »It is very scalable. We've added quite a bit to it since we started.
View full review »The scalability is very good.
View full review »Hard to say with that product line. That product line, it's much more mature. It doesn't grow that dramatically, so we planned ahead with a five year window, to be on that platform. It's running fine. We're not running into any hurdles right now.
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Herve Garcia
Director, Systems & Architecture at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our systems are fairly static once they have been deployed.
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Director609e
Director Technology Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We haven't really had to scale it yet. We got a pretty large footprint initially. I think we've added some SSDs, some nearline disk. But from that perspective, no issues, no complaints.
View full review »It's VMware so they're all data stores, and data store moves are non-descriptive so we can just keep providing more data stores and then, the software figures out where to place the workloads. If the customers aren't happy with the current performance tier that they're on, then they can self-move to a higher tier. SSD's are coming down in price, it's a usable price range now and having an all SSD data center is actually functional.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with scalability.
View full review »It can be scaled to more than enough capacity. So, it's okay.
View full review »Scalability depends on the situation. Whenever you try and provision these converged platforms, you've got to have an element of planning in terms of where your business is going grow for the next two or three years. It's interesting. We planned for 20% data growth on a 3PAR infrastructure over three years. What we found was we had closer to 20% data growth per year.
So if you look it from a data scaling perspective, we've reached the limits of our 3PAR 7200s in Europe. Thankfully for us, we've got 7400s, which gives you a lot more scalability in terms of storage. From a memory and processing prospective, they're perfect. So we have no issues with scalability.
View full review »We've been able to implement it in both small clinics and big hospitals. It's scalable so we can manage it from the same data center with protected investments.
View full review »It's working for us on scalability, I think. We're still to see how we go. We've got some issues at the moment on scalability. We need to grow our data quite significantly. We need to find something that is more scalable.
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reviewer1585665
Solution Architech at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Scalability could be better. I think it's getting short right now, and another product has more scalability. This product, I think, is medium if that's acceptable. I don't know how to measure it.
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reviewer1446966
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is moderately simple to scale. We have approximately 1000 computers using the solution.
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reviewer1468128
IT Infrastructure and Operational Lead at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
We have added capacity to this solution between four and six times. Each time we did, we had to purchase services for re-balancing. It has to be done by a 3PAR engineer, rather than by our staff. It's a complex process. With some other products, you can just add a new disk to increase capacity, and you don't need to perform re-balancing.
There are three of us in the company who uses it.
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ITManagec405
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The scalability is problematic. We would like to scale with our current infrastructure but we can't. We need to actually buy additional components, not just add disks. We actually need to buy additional controllers and, eventually, another storage unit. So it's not good enough.
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Infrastrb292
Infrastructure Analysts at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is great, because if we need to, we can just turn on a blade and start paying for it. Also, if we want, we can shut it down, and the next month, we don't pay.
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Assistan151c
Assistance Administrator with 11-50 employees
The scalability is very good. We are planning on adding another rack of hard drives.
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SrEngine483a
Sr Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I'm not too familiar with the scalability, I haven't to expand on it yet. But, from what I understand, scaling it should be easier than with typical storage platforms. We did recently just add a shelf of disks, which didn't take too much effort. I think it definitely has good scalability, but I don't have too much hands-on with that yet.
View full review »I can't really comment too much on the scalability. Most of what we're using right now is still a relatively small deployment. I don't see anything that would cause a problem with scaling outwards, and the system is made to scale. We're probably going to be doing our first augment next year, but we haven't really focused on it yet.
Right now, we have only one. If I need one more, then I buy one more box and attach it to it. I can scale up to whatever I want. I am not nervous about scaling up at all.
View full review »Really scalable. That's one of the reasons we're here this week at HPE Discover, is to have a look at what options we've got to increase the space in our 3PAR, because our platform's growing. Our storage will grow with it.
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PaulMarshall
Infrastructure SME at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
At the moment it's under-scaling. We grew quicker than we expected.
We know what our issue is and that's why we have to look at Nimble and what it has to offer us at the moment. At the moment, it looks like the solution that we're going to be moving to.
View full review »Of course it will meet our needs going forward. We have just utilized maybe 30 to 40 percent. It should be scalable for up to five more years.
View full review »It is pretty scalable. When we implemented the solution we started with only seven ports and we began to add new servers. Then we started publishing new services to our clients.
View full review »The scalability is nice. I need to expand the system by 70 TBs this year, so I just added more shelves. That's pretty easy.
View full review »We scaled up in the past and we will scale up again next month. The last time the previous system engineer did this. I don't have experience with scalability.
View full review »We have had to scale up a couple times now because our imaging is growing about 30% per year. We cannot plan it; we have to upgrade it. The scalability is really good. We just put in more hardware and it starts to run.
View full review »In terms of scalability, we did careful planning on that in the beginning. I don’t think we will outrun the system within its natural lifetime. Once it gets replaced by the next generation of systems, whatever those might be, it might be 3PAR, or it might be something software defined. We don't know because that will be in 2019.
View full review »It's very easy to scale.
View full review »Scales well.
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Derradji Nacer
Information Technology Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is scalable.
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SeniorSycb53
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
You can't beat its scalability. Just add more storage space when you need it, which is very simple.
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TechDire6cb5
Tech Director Data Centers with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is definitely scalable. We do not have any issues.
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Doug Newell
Engineering Services Manager at Muckleshoot
Scalability is excellent. It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up.
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Infrastrd82a
Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
No issues with scalability.
View full review »It is scalable. The model we have, we scaled it last year. We bought another rack mount, and we extended it to 12TB. It is easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy to configure.
Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario.
Even for a future of big environment, if we wanted to go bigger, we can migrate easily to other bigger projects or bigger versions.
Since it's going to expand to a 240 disk maximum, in terms of scalability I have to go for another controller with the nodes and stuff. But based on the model, if you go ahead with a good different model, it supports more disk space in your enclosure areas.
In general what HPE can provide, it can meet my needs.
View full review »So far, no issues with scalability.
View full review »The scalability is awesome. We just recently upgraded to a new system, and we now have the capacity to scale up. Essentially, the sky is the limit. We'll never get that big because our company is not that big. However, if we wanted to, we could easily scale.
View full review »We've scaled it up quite a bit. It doesn’t have any problems.
View full review »We have had no issues with our 3PARs. We like them a lot.
View full review »We know it's there. We made the decision to purchase it with the view for growth, and we know we'll just plug another array or another stack pretty quickly.
View full review »It's been quite scalable. Since we bought this one in the summer, we've expanded twice, so it's quite scalable. Now it's over 200 terabytes and 176 discs, I think. The maximum is 250 on this one. It's not the biggest 3PAR, but it's quite powerful actually.
View full review »All the issues we encountered were due to human error.
View full review »It’s very scalable.
View full review »We haven’t had any issues with scalability
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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Mohammad Salman
Manager of Customer Services with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable, but we required an extension.
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Guillermo Daniel Lisotti
IT Manager at Judiciary of Neuquen
One of the points that moved us towards 3PAR was we wanted to escalate it in a very high way.
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Hamilton Ribeiro Dos Santos
IT Manager at Maquinas Jacto
It's scalable. We are creating a plan, with our HPE partner in Brazil to duplicate our 3PAR environment because for us it is very important. It's the base of our data center.
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Director9019
Director at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
The scalability is far beyond what we'll ever need.
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Kasper Billeskov
Storage Service Architect at NNIT
We are managing more than 50 3PAR arrays worldwide. In our test centers, we are managing 15 HP all-flash arrays. The use of it is to be able to scale the platform. This is the most flexible way and one of the requirements for use in our environment.
View full review »Absolutely scalable. We have our own five enterprise applications. They're all public-facing systems. Again, going back to the performance. On a given day, anywhere between 5000 to 8000 internal people use them. We do have a public-facing system. People apply for benefits, and it's entirely public, so they can use it.
Compared to before, if you look at the performance, some of the applications are 30 to 40 percent improved. Some of the batches are almost 70% better. If you look at the back-end side, your export logical backups, and your disaster recovery, all those things, there is a tremendous increase.
View full review »The scalability is sufficient. We are expanding our operations now.
View full review »Its scalability is really good because we're only using a third of the array's storage that we have, so we'll be able to keep that for several more years.
View full review »The scalability is very good.
View full review »We are fairly small. We are at the moment 800 virtual services. For us, it has very good scalability; but we are very, very small.
View full review »It can scale as long as the customer's got the budget.
View full review »It's scalable just based on the physical placements of the hardware and the white space involved on the floor.
View full review »It scales just fine.
View full review »I’ve already scaled it twice and will scale it again.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »We added a shelf online with no issues and the SAN was online during the upgrade.
View full review »We planned for scalability so we bought four enclosures, which was overkill, but it's planning ahead.
It will completely meet our needs, moving forward.
View full review »Scalability is the main purpose, that I can scale out with something, where I can keep adding more modules onto it.
View full review »You can scale as per the demand and definitely, you can start with a one disk enclosure and then go up to nine to twelve disk enclosures, without having any performance issues.
View full review »Scalability has been really good. We've constantly added shelves and disk space to it from the beginning. I think we started out with a 12 to 13 terabyte system, and now we're up to a 60 terabyte system. It has grown exponentially with us over the last few years.
View full review »It's scaling where we need to go. The issues we have are more the application not scaling. Application design issues, not hardware issues. The hardware will go further than our application will.
View full review »Scalability is very good.
View full review »We've always been able to upgrade easily and now have three or four kinds of upgraded systems.
View full review »3PAR has been extremely scalable.
View full review »Based on our experience and the documentation it looks easy.
View full review »We can't hit it hard enough yet. As I said adding shelves and drives all is pretty nice and straight forward.
View full review »This solution is easy to scale. It is done online.
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Computerd47b
Computer Systems Administrator at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability is alright. When we try to scale it, we do upgrades.
The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated.
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ManagerL4e9d
Manager Lab Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have multiple storage arrays, we have yet to expand the existing storage.
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DataCentc0ab
Data center team lead at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I haven't had to do a whole lot of scalability with it. We're on a lease model, so we spec'ed it out for what we needed and haven't really had to scale it up at all, for the most part.
View full review »It is a very scalable solution.
Our customers, they are smaller customers. Very few customers will go to the maximum, but for us, this is fine.
View full review »We do not have a need for it yet, but it should be no problem.
View full review »In terms of scalability, I think it will meet our company's needs for the near future, but, later on, no. I don't think it will. It's not because it's not scalable, it's just that technology changes so much. Three or four years, you get something new.
There were no scalability issues. The scale-up in the architecture works really nicely and there are no disruptions. This is also the case with the firmware and software updates.
View full review »It is very scalable.
View full review »We have scaled it and the scalability is great. You have to add everything in pairs though, so we're at a point now where a small addition would require some extra overhead. In general, we've been able to double the storage and get better availability out of it. It wasn't too crazy.
View full review »It is very good on scalability.
View full review »It is the end of the product. We had to buy all of our 3PAR products in 2012. At the time, it was a new product. It wasn't viable. It is now running out of disk space.
View full review »No issues encountered, but to reiterate, it would be nice to scale processing power as well.
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DataCent1a09
Data Center Operations at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We have already had situations where we had to optimize and put more space on the storage. It has been very simple to get done. We are happy with what we have in place.
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Eduardo Fontanella
Infrastructure Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have not upgraded the size of the discs since we started.
View full review »Scalability is very good. We now use only 50% of controllers, so we can scale up from 50% to 100%, when we need it. We also have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime.
View full review »It is scalable, but I do not need to scale it for the future.
View full review »We currently have 400 employees, and I believe it will scale for us.
View full review »It's extremely scalable.
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reviewer1754823
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
This solution is scalable.
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Mesut KARACA
Responsible for information processing at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have around 1,000 users.
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Mesut KARACA
Responsible for information processing at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have more than 1,000 users on the product currently.
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Jay Liu
Manager Of Storage And Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
It should meet our needs going forward.
View full review »The scalability is very easy for this solution.
View full review »Scalability is good as we have grown the area several times without an issue.
View full review »It's very scalable.
We haven't tried scaling it, yet. I'm sure it will be fine.
View full review »It is very flexible in terms of scalability.
View full review »We had no issues scaling it for our needs.
View full review »One of the key features of the HP 3PAR storage array is the ability to scale and the ease by which this can be achieved.
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reviewer1471356
Service & Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It is easily scalable. It is easy to scale, but if you plan to increase it substantially, it can be a bit difficult.
I'm a service provider. We provide support for Unix servers for many companies and customers. Some companies have more than 1,000 3PAR users.
View full review »It meets our needs for now.
The scalability of this solution is pretty easy. When we did the initial sizing of the solution, I estimated our business needs at the time. Approximately three years ago, the estimate was about 700 TBs in total. We had two sites, so I sized it with all of the documentation and with staff feedback to have it grow in size to 1.5 PBs per site. That comes out to 3 PBs in total.
We have had very extensive growth due to some medical applications we use, such as DNA and image analysis. We are up to 2 PBs for each system. This is our maximum capacity, but it's our problem because we scaled it up too much.
We are not too big in terms of scalability. But we're quite scalable in case we need to scale, but we haven't had to yet.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »Scalability has been fine. No issues.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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Adminitrd884
Assistant Manager of Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It's very scalable. For our organization, it's very scalable and at low cost.
View full review »I can't say anything about this because they bought the necessary size two years ago, and they don't need to expand for now.
There have been no issues with scaling it for our needs.
View full review »There were no scalability issues.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »Scalability is extremely fine.
View full review »It scales just fine.
View full review »It scales without issues for us.
View full review »No, we haven't had any issues with scalability.
View full review »Not so far.
View full review »No scalability issues at all.
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reviewer1386717
Technical Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is scalable.
We have approximately 15 customers using this solution.
View full review »GA
reviewer1480734
Senior technical and storage expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Its scalability is good, but it needs a bigger capacity for an enterprise data center. We have around 1,000 users.
View full review »The scalability has always been great because of one idea from HPE: no need for us to pay from the beginning for the full machine. We can purchase based on the budget of our company. This makes it scalable. It's great.
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ITManagedead
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability is good.
View full review »No issues.
View full review »We have the option to scale, though we haven't done it yet.
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