HPE 3PAR StoreServ Stability
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Dallas Widing
IT Manager at BouMatic LLC
in the last five years, we've only had one drive failure. We have run out of space on our Nearline storage, because our Nearline storage was set up for the Remote Copy groups. I'm actually going to be working with an HPE storage architect next week to redistribute the ARC copy groups. Most of that is low tier that I'm not worried about for high availability, but for our SSD storage and FAST class storage, the high availability is there. I have a six node cluster that we are splitting to two sites on one campus. If I have any failure, everything fails over in a heartbeat, then nobody will hardly notice.
In the past, I've been comfortable running HPE servers for more than 10 years. However, I no longer find that to be cost-effective, especially as a customer, because running something that long obviously induces too much risk. Now, I'm on a three to five-year replacement cycle, and the current environment was installed five years ago. I have to get it replaced next year.
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reviewer1751949
Independent consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a highly stable solution.
View full review »I rate HPE StoreServe seven out of 10 for stability.
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Sylvan
Works at renesas
The solution is quite stable. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
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StorageA404a
Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We are not seeing any issues. No hardware failures.
I would rate stability as a nine out of 10.
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Syed-Hassan
General Manager IT at Chase Up
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a stable solution. We have not had an issue since we have been using it.
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Marty Riedling
Systems Engineer Manager at Ingles Markets, Incorporated
It is good and stable.
The availability has been great. We haven't had any outages from the 3PAR itself. Although, we have had two or three outages from the techs coming onsite and working on it, then causing an outage.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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SanAndStd11c
SAN and Storage Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
They are very stable, we have very few problems with them.
View full review »Stability is great and it's getting better every year. I have less and less issues as HPE works on the software.
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reviewer1409538
ICT Director KA Infra at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is stable.
View full review »It is very reliable. In these four years, we have not had any big failure or faced any issue.
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reviewer1337562
Sr, Storage Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The stability of the solution is pretty good. We haven't had issues with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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Mark Frenette
HPC Architect at Nuance Communications
When we went to 3PAR, it has the Call-Home function. Now, I do not have to do a whole lot for monitoring and problems. The sales engineer (SE) will show up with a drive, and say "You've got a drive down." Therefore, we don't even monitor it.
This makes our job so much easier.
View full review »The stability of the 3PAR and the DL servers is very reliable. As a matter of fact, when I was talking to HP sales, I was recommending to actually buy the servers with only 90 day warranty, as opposed to the three year warranty, because the servers are so reliable that they almost never fail, and we feel like overpaying for support where it's not needed.
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reviewer969309
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Last year after summer, HPE had to locate replication groups getting stopped and took a lot of time to find out what's happening, and yet we still don't know what's happening over there. It feels like the message is quite clear after replicating from A to B, and it states that B is not responding very well.
There is a timeout, and it stops the replication group because there is no stability or consistency and is not good at that moment. So that might be negative, but when was the last time? I think in November of last year.
It's very stable.
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Peter Sachs
Storage Infrastructure Engineer at Cambridge Health Alliance
I have found the stability to be very high.
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Jeff Stone
Solutions Architect at Optio Data
Stability is nice. A lot of other systems have two to four controllers. From a performance perspective that gets into availability, it can suffer parts failures. The nice part about 3PAR is it starts getting into the six to eight node controllers, if I want to scale up. It is built-in there, and what helps with that is they from almost a managed services, or service provider background, before HPE even acquired them. They have a great structure, where if I have different business units, I need to get granular access. I can create separate domains for clients, but then manage it a little bit differently. The flexibility and ability to adjust to business needs is where its robustness is. Sometimes that adds some complications to the setup and the configuration, but sometimes that is needed based on what the business is trying to do with it.
View full review »We haven't overly stressed it to say whether there's any stability. Once we expand it and do any replication, that's where we're going to see the stability but on basic operation of 3PAR, it's stable. You would expect that there's no quirkiness. I'm not seeing glitches in the UI, I'm not seeing too much in there.
View full review »It is very stable because the controller is active-active. It is more secure if you make the best design and make two fabric switches around that.
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Dwayne Vidi
Director of Technology at a university
With the uptime and reliability, it's been rock solid so far.
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SushilKumar1
Security Officer at Videocon Intelligent Security Private Limited
The solution is very stable and extremely reliable. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze.
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Solution7c6e
Solutions Architect
The stability has been great. We have had zero issues.
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Tony Rigby
CTO for Microsoft & Infrastructure Platforms at Amey
We have a large number of HP storage products and 3PAR is by far the most stable. We do have a couple of clusters that have normal, standard discs, and these are so stable. We wanted something high-end, and that's why we went with 3PAR. If something goes wrong, we know it's not a hardware issue, but rather the software configuration that's running on it.
View full review »We have only expanded the 7400, doubling its size in disk and controller count, and did it without any issues.
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Tomas Stasek
Head of IT Department at Sonepar
3PAR is a stable product. We have used the current device and an older version for more than seven years and although we had accidents with nodes and hard drives, it is high-availability storage. We never had a blackout and we have never been offline.
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reviewer1473348
SAN Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The stability is pretty decent. The only thing you have to worry about is that you don't overtax the controller. In other words, you don't do that combination of deduping and compression as well as data replication and then also heavily use the controllers where your IO starts, the IO performance. With IOPS and Truepoint, it's important that users do not over-utilize the environment. Then you have performance issues.
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SystemsAd3f7
Systems And Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has been quite a stable product, which is why we continue to invest in it.
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WayneCross
Director IT at Borden Ladner
It's very stable.
Also, the solution's availability is remarkable. We have never had a breakdown over a storage array.
View full review »I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ's stability a ten out of ten.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
This is one of the best solutions if you want to have a stable and highly reliable system.
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Tye Summerville
IT Operations Manager at ACCC INSURANCE COMPANY
After we got past all the hiccups with the conditional configuration, the stability has been rock solid. I like the simplicity of it. We do not have to fidget with it a whole lot once we have it set up correctly. It has been stable and performs well, so I have no complaints whatsoever.
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ProjectD7fc0
Project Development Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Hot-swappable drives and built-in redundancy gives stability to the solution.
View full review »HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a stable solution.
I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an eight out of ten for stability.
It's a stable solution.
View full review »The product is stable.
View full review »It's very stable. It has never broken down.
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Directora818
Director of North America at a sports company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We had some minor issues at first, although it was mostly due to configuration. Since those were ironed out it's been very smooth.
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NetworkAd9ed
Network Admin at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
It has been pretty stable. We have only had one major issue. It was because of a redundancy that we had set up. HPE sent us a new part, then we swapped it in and were back up and running.
So far, I'm pretty satisfied with the solution's availability.
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SrStorag7e72
Sr. Storage Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We haven't had any major issues on 3PAR. We have pretty much had 100 percent uptime; we haven't had any outage. We run a lot of production workload on it with no issues.
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VirtualizationSysAdmin415
Virtualization Systems Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees
It is very stable.
View full review »It is stable. I didn't have any issues.
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Helder Valente
Infrastructure and Networks at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It's a stable solution.
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Jose Newman
IT Architect at Oncor Electric Delivery
It has been stable. It has been very reliable. I have no problems around it.
View full review »The performance is optimal, if we have planned everything properly well in advance.
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View full review »I rate the product’s stability an eight out of ten.
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reviewer281076
Director of Technology Services at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a stable solution. We haven't had it go down.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution is very stable.
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Leonardo Amarello
System Engineer at GEBE
The product is really stable. The main thing is the solution is easy to use, and my administrators don't spend a lot of time on maintaining or troubleshooting issues because of it.
We never have a problem. The system runs. One of the main things is that we are in the Caribbean. The amount of power outages that we have compared to the US is more than 60 percent higher. The 3PAR can handle that. A lot of systems, when power goes out and it come back, they just don't work. We never had that. The 3PAR was one thing that always used to backup. I had problem with other servers, but not with the 3PAR.
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Principa0182
Principal Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is stable as heck. That is 3PAR's main name.
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Philip Sellers
Solutions Engineer at AmWINS Group, Inc.
3PAR stability has been there since day one. It's one of the platforms that has just been a joy to work with, because it changed the way that we are able to protect our entire environment. Being a telecom, we've got really good high speed links between our two data centers and we are able to do with 3PAR in a Peer Persistence configuration, and that's a feature where it clusters the two 3PAR rays together with seamless failover for LUNs from one array to another.
Now I've got disaster avoidance, rather than disaster recovery of a traditional replication technology. So Peer Persistence for us is kind of nirvana. It's been a great solution for us.
It started out just with VMware, then they added support for our Windows clusters. Most of the things we run on the blades are things that we can do this with. So if we have a blade fail, the great thing about a blade is the server profiles, move that to another blade, spare, in the enclosure, it comes back up in the same server running again, and if we have a storage failure, it automatically switches over in the backend, and our users never know.
View full review »We have not encountered any stability issues. Its performance and capacity have been even better than expected.
The code updates have been exceptionally smooth compared to our previous SAN vendor. This includes no outage windows and really short upgrade durations.
View full review »We have never had any stability problems.
View full review »It's very stable.
View full review »Stability is rock solid.
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VijayKumar20
GM at SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant
This is a very stable storage solution and we plan to continue using it.
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Tomas Stasek
Head of IT Department at Sonepar
In terms of stability, our experience has only been good. We have not had any problems in five months.
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Infrastr6155
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have had one major hardware failure in the last seven years and nothing went down because of it. It was a controller failure. It's a four-node cluster so end-users didn't even notice an impact in performance. Nobody was in a panic besides me. In the end it worked out, they just replaced it.
View full review »Stability-wise, I think it's very good. Support-wise, I think it’s debatable based on some issues that we had with it.
View full review »Stability is one of my favorite features. Like I said, our BI infrastructure on Wednesdays at the beginning of that fiscal week is getting hammered. You get tired after a while of answering the phone and saying, we’re sorry, we know it’s Wednesday but you know, once we put that particular SSAS uh, implementation into the 3PAR storage we haven’t been down since. The only time we’ve been down in the last 180 days was for maintenance and it was a planned maintenance. That’s a very good thing, that’s peace of mind for any infrastructure manager out there.
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Brian-Earnst
Enterprise Architect at Blessing Hospital School of Medical Laboratory Technology
Stability is a little lower than EMC, because of the problems that we have had. We ran EMC for the last 10 years and never had any problems with it.
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UnixAdmi6d0e
Unix Admin at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I've never had it go down unless I wanted it to, ever.
View full review »It is stable, above average. There were some obstacles, but support managed, in the end, to fix it. It wasn't the product itself, it was a configuration issue.
It is very stable. The only issue that we've had with our 3PAR system was caused by a firmware update and it caused an outage. It was actually a human issue.
View full review »Everything is straightforward.
View full review »It's very stable.
View full review »We had an accident where when we turned on deduplication and we had it active for some of the virtual volumes that we had in our environment, it did actually cause a problem that HP had not heard of previously and had not yet documented that was fixed in a release 2 weeks later, and a software patch 2 weeks later. We did have an outage related to that specifically where it's not dithering us from doing it using dedup long term, but that was actually the cause of that. Other than that, reliability has been fine but that's a pretty big marker as far as having a problem.
View full review »We've actually had a number of drives fail over a three year period, and actually before that, we had on the MC and other systems we'd see drives fail. The drive failures, however, and the way that the predictability comes about and the disc is actually evacuated on a 3PAR, and it's done, you know, preemptively, that's been a game changer for us. Rather than watching an entire raid volume go offline or become poor performing or unstable, we don't have that. Mechanical devices are gonna fail. Ideally, they don't impact your business. That's been one of the big things for us.
View full review »Oh, it's been incredible stability. Here's an anecdote. The solution we were on before was a dual controller solution which is kind of a misnomer because the way that the system balances itself, if you have any controller that's running a bit higher than the other, say, 50, 60 percent, and one controller goes down, well, that one controller now has to take the additional load from the other controller. So what we realized at one point was, we had a controller that had to do down for maintenance, and during that maintenance window, we had some performance issues, because the one controller had to pick up the load for the other controller, and it caused our environment to run slower than we would have liked
With the 3PAR solution, it's a four controller system, a four node system. It load balances very well. It actually does it automatically for us. Something that my team had to struggle with actually, with the EMC solution. So for us, it's been great. We've been doing maintenance upgrades on the solution with little to no impact at all on the environment. So it's been very stable for us.
View full review »Very stable and performance is great.
View full review »A part of the firmware for the controller had a bug that caused some issues while doing the Dynamic tiering, however once we upgraded it was fixed.
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Pavan Divakar
GIDC India - Architecture Design and Engineering Leader at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Reliability is one area that needs improvement. I cannot afford to have a 4-node storage array suddenly having 2-nodes reboot for no reason. This has never happened on Pure or even on Dell EMC Storage Arrays. However, I've seen that happen on 3PAR on multiple accounts. That's something that HPE needs to work on. They need to work on their codes and make them more reliable. It was reliable to start with, however, somewhere down in the last three or four years, they just slipped.
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David Barrientos
IT Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
The stability of this solution is good.
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IctCounte381
ICT Country Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
So far, the stability has been good. We have not had any outages.
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Julie Imoto
Engineering Manager at Leidos Holdings Inc.
The stability and scalability of the solution are great. They're among the reasons that we selected this product.
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RajeshSrinivasan
Director at HCL Technologies
It is stable.
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Jason Hetzler
Supervisor Infrastructure at Blessing Health System
It has been reliable recently. In the past we did not have very good luck with it the first year or so that we owned it. Now that HPE has put the right resources, as well as the additional solid state drives, it has helped improve the performance and stability.
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Alan Drummond
Delivery Director at Schneider Electric
The stability has been great. Of course, we've had limited experience with it so far.
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Branimir Kusanic
Head Of IT Data Center at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Downtime, never. I have heard of other customers having some serious issues. I personally am not the type of person that would say, "they are now the bad guys," because it can happen. It's technology.
Overall, in my experience, maybe one of the worst was when we suddenly got a lot of different alerts. It caused some stress within our team, but later on it proved to be a bug in the firmware version. I think in two-weeks' time we received an update that resolved the issue. So, I really think it's stable. It's a good choice for the price.
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Steve Davidek
IT Manager at City Of Sparks
We've never had downtime in four or five years now. Except when we want to.
From our perspective, and from our experience with the customer, it's a really stable solution. We have no problems with the customer, no negative feedback from them, and we have been relying for years on close cooperation with HPE in this area.
The stability is very good.
View full review »We've had no issues with stability. All failures have been handled seamlessly within the platform. We've had controllers fail and they haven't impacted performance or stability at all. All very good.
View full review »Stability has always been there. Going back to my reliability comment that it's always been very reliable, we've never had any major issues. When there has been issues, it's always been preventative maintenance kind of things that are addressed pretty quickly. With the redundancy that you get in the system, we've never had an outage, per say. Something that you have to maybe go fix, but not a complete downtime.
View full review »I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an eight out of ten for stability.
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teamlead968247
Team Leader Presales at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The stability of the product is good. They offer good performance. It doesn't crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches.
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Emir Erkara
IT Coordinator at HMY
3PAR is stable.
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Cindy Cecutti
Director IT at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
This solution is very stable.
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ITManage04a2
IT Manager at a energy/utilities company
It is very stable. We have had no downtime since putting it in.
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ManagerD1d2a
Manager, Data Center at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees
The reliability has been good, except for upgrades. We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us. The proactive support help us with the set up.
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MarioSolano
VP Infrastructure at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees
It has definitly been very stable. We haven't had any issues with the 3PAR for years.
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Scott Samowitz
Director Of Information Technology at Jacobsen Construction Company, Inc.
It has been very stable. We've had very minor issues, but I've loved how HPE is proactive on letting us know. Usually, they let us know before we notice it ourselves and they already have a solution for us. It has been great that way.
View full review »Stability has been great, we haven't had any issues with it. The normal firmware patches come out to keep it up to date.
View full review »Overall, touch wood, we've never had a major failure. We found it to be very, very stable. I think there are some challenges when it comes to upgrading the firmware on the system, and making those incremental updates. Apart from that, it's pretty rock solid.
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The stability is excellent. It has been very stable, and we do give the storage quite a good workout. It's busy all the time, most of the day, 24/7, most of the weekends. Our account manager says it's one of the most worked three-part storage devices he's seen. We do use it a lot. It's been perfectly stable, and we have, “touch wood”, not had any particular bother with it.
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Nothing bad to say about 3PAR. It's been completely reliable. There's always going to be drive failures with any piece of spinning disc. Those are expected and they've been treated, at least in the US region, with really rapid response times, really great support. Support for upgrades has been painless. HPE is very proactive about doing that - they'll let us know that there's a new version and they'd like to upgrade the array. It's fantastic.
View full review »The stability of 3PAR is unquestionable. From day one, we had had not to bag the LeftHand product set, because it has a place in the market, but we had had some issues with that when we really pushed it probably too far. So when we moved to 3PAR as soon as that became apparent, and never looked back. You know, there's been no issues with 3PAR throughout the way through, and I say, the ability to change your mind and change your rate levels, change the way you're deploying the storage, that means that you don't have to break it just to make it what you want it to be.
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AhsanulHaque
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
This solution is stable and reliable. It has good performance and we have a team of three to monitor the 3PAR on a daily basis. The required technology is smarter, so in terms of on-site utilization, it's very good.
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ITInfrasbaa1
IT Infrastructure Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has basically never failed. It is a very stable thing in our environment. We don't have such experience with the other things that we have.
3PAR's availability is fantastic and the maximum.
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Dale Nelson
Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability has been awesome. We have a couple of 8440s that have been in production now for about a year and a half with no hiccups; nothing. Its performance has been steady, very good, and it stays up.
That is why we had P9500s and Symmetrix in the day, because they just stayed up, and they just always worked. 3PAR has been every bit as reliable and available as those systems.
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Dharmendra Gurtata
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has very stable. We had one or two hiccups initially, but the HPE engineering team took care of them.
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Educatio154c
Educational Team Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a very stable environment. This is round-three for some of our clients, round-three of orders. We had some orders that came in about three years ago and then another one last year and they're now going through the third round.
View full review »It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment. For us, it is a really stable product.
View full review »We had great availability and stability with our previous HPE arrays and that has continued with 3PAR. We have not had a single incident of downtime nor have we had any service interruptions of any kind.
View full review »It’s very stable; rock solid.
View full review »Since we deployed 3PAR, there hasn't been any downtime, or other issue with stability. The main production 3PAR uptime is over 360 days to date and without any degradation in performance or any other issues.
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reviewer372459
Sr. Manager - IT Systems at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution has been very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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NetworkM17fa
Network Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
We have never had a problem.
View full review »We have not experienced any down times since we started 3PAR. For us, it was the right decision. It was the best way to provide a storage solution for our company. It has been running for over two years without any down time.
View full review »Stability is pretty good, but we had a fiber channel previously, and we found that was a bit more reasonable than the HPE.
View full review »It's highly stable and has 99.9999% uptime.
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John Askew
Systems Architect at The University of Auckland
Once we put it in and got comfortable with the product, it's been extremely stable.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »Both versions are very stable. The 7200 has not had any downtime since it was put into production back in November 2012.
View full review »No issues with stability.
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reviewer1505493
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
This is a stable solution.
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Gustavo Galicia
Architect at GTE 24/7
It's stable and uses Call-Home. Support is 24/7.
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ServerAnae40
Server Analyst at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
The stability is very good. We have HPE connecting in remotely to help us with any of the major firmware updates. This keeps everything running great.
It has not failed us yet, so it is very highly available and error free, so far.
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Erik-Johnson
HP-UX System Admin at L3 Technologies Inc
It seems pretty stable. Once we got over the birthing pains, it has been pretty reliable.
As long as the array is not full, it is available. We filled it up.
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SystemsE65a1
Systems Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
It has been a lot more stable over the past year that I have using it. Early on, we did have some issues, but working with HPE, we were quickly able to fix all that. Since then, it has been very stable.
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SystemsEfd16
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It's a very stable platform. It has been running pretty smoothly. It's one of those things where you set it and forget it. We tweak it here and there and we add things to it a little bit, but nothing crazy.
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Wes Wimpey
Systems Architect at Greenville Health Systems
It has been rock solid for us.
View full review »It is pretty stable. That's the reason we bought one more 3PAR. We just had the 7400, but got the 8200. We may procure the 8400 as well. Overall the platform's quite stable.
There is a performance hit for a few hours or days every time you add additional storage until the additional storage is added to the pool.
View full review »The stability, “knock on wood”, is okay. My feeling is that this solution is rock solid stable.
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reviewer1021158
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This is a stable product.
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SystemsE33b6
Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is extremely stable. I'm able to do everything that I need to do in the middle of the day without interruption. It has been an absolute fantastic piece of hardware.
The availability is excellent. I have not had any problems with 3PAR.
It runs. I don't have a problem with it. If it needs an update, I can do it in the middle of the day with nobody being the wiser. It is phenomenal in that respect. As a hospital, I get two hours every quarter to reboot things, so it is imperative that nothing goes down.
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Raphael Gondim
Coordinator at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
The stability is awesome.
View full review »It's stable. We haven't have any issues, unless it's human error, until now.
It is very stable.
View full review »The stability is pretty good.
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Herve Garcia
Director, Systems & Architecture at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
After being properly configured, it has been a very stable product.
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Director609e
Director Technology Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Stability is very good. No issues thus far.
View full review »We're really happy with the stability of the product. Everything's self-service, so our whole cloud-front is fronted by the vCloud Director. The goal with this small team is self-service, so we just publish the new tiers and people start using the tiers. There haven't been any complaints. There are a few technical things with them, we think are to do with the software that we will work through with them, provide feedback, and see how it goes. It has actually exceeded in quite a few spots.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with stability.
View full review »It's I think a five-9s (99.999%) solution, so it's very stable.
View full review »3PARs are very stable. We've been using 3PARs both in the UK and our headquarters in France for maybe four years now and we've not had any issues with the system, so they're a quite a reliable system.
View full review »From my perspective it's definitely a stable solution, it's easily scalable. It's really like any other kind of blade enclosure, you buy your chassis, you add the blades as needed. Really no real hardware related issues. You're always going to get your bad spurts, regardless of generation, but I think from our perspective, they'll correct me if I'm wrong, it's been pretty stable.
View full review »It works 24/7. Our core business are our hospitals and clinics, which means we can't waste time on data center or service issues. So the real value is the 24/7, constant stability.
View full review »Not really, as the arrays have performed with no down time or data loss since we first started using them four years ago.
View full review »The stability of the system has been great. I think we've only had it since October. We had not had any problems. It's been great, at the moment.
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reviewer1585665
Solution Architech at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
It's quite stable. The only problem that I have found with this product is when you are missing storage space. When you lack storage space, and the disk is full is when you have most of the problems with this product. But if you don't have these issues, you'll almost never have a problem with it.
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reviewer1446966
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have only had to adjust the solution four times in the time I have used it, it is stable.
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reviewer1468128
IT Infrastructure and Operational Lead at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
This product is stable, aside from the performance problems we had.
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ITManagec405
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
All in all, it's a stable solution. From an availability perspective, we have it in both data centers.
We found one huge bug when we implemented the solution, a critical bug that eventually crashed and shut down the storage, which is something that we cannot live with. But since then, a patch was provided for this issue, and over the last a year-and-a-half we haven't had any stability issues whatsoever.
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Infrastrb292
Infrastructure Analysts at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using Synergy, so it is the next evolution of blades, which has been great. We have had no complaints, except for the problem with the Spectre vulnerability.
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Assistan151c
Assistance Administrator with 11-50 employees
The stability has been great and solid, so far. We haven't had any hiccups or any major outages.
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SrEngine483a
Sr Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It has shown a lot of stability. We have a pretty rigorous QA process and there have been some minor issues and some things that we've had to work through, but nothing that has been unpredictable or unexplainable or just flat out faulty. It has been pretty reliable.
View full review »The "hiccups" I mentioned above did not cause downtime in any environment of consequence. It went down when we were trying to break things. When we tried to break it, it broke. But thus far, otherwise, it's been pretty darn solid.
We have been using it for more than two year with no issues at all. I think it is really stable.
View full review »3PAR, for us, has been incredibly stable. We haven't had many issues at all, except at periods of change; in firmware updates, that kind of stuff.
We have seen some issues prior, but those have been resolved very quickly by the engineer who's been working with us on the firmware upgrade. We've rolled back, fixed those issues, and then been able to proceed.
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PaulMarshall
Infrastructure SME at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Stability is fine.
For me, now, it's a stable product.
The stability is good. We had one incident where the downtime lasted less than 30 minutes. So I would say that it is accurate, fast and reliable.
View full review »It is very good in terms of stability.
View full review »Stability could be better. We have had it 3 years and we had three down times.
View full review »It is really stable actually. We never have unplanned downtime. It is really on call for us. We upgraded from the HPE EVA systems to the 3PAR and I think it's better than our last EVA system.
View full review »There is no doubt that the 3PAR system is the most stable system we ever had in the storage space. When I look left and right at other systems we had and others still have in the university, we never had any unplanned downtime. We never lost any data. It really does the job the way it should be doing it.
There might be some mishaps, but nothing that's out of the ordinary, like losing the website for three days in a row. There's nothing like that. Of course, you have to do all the work to maintain the system. That's hard work, and you have to do it, but the system really rewards you for doing that.
View full review »It's a stable solution and there's global support from the entire HP worldwide organization.
View full review »Very stable, haven't had any problems.
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Derradji Nacer
Information Technology Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
The solution has been working perfectly, we have not had any issues since we purchased it. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is highly reliable.
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SeniorSycb53
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
I am very impressed with the stability. We have had a stable environment for at least the year that I have been at the organization.
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TechDire6cb5
Tech Director Data Centers with 5,001-10,000 employees
We had major issues in years one and two.
Now, it is stable. In the beginning, we had some stability and reliability issues. Over the last three years, it has been very stable and reliable.
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Doug Newell
Engineering Services Manager at Muckleshoot
In two years, I have had no downtime.
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Infrastrd82a
Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We have had some issues in the past, maybe due to configuration issues.
View full review »We have not had any downtime in two and a half years.
View full review »So far, no disaster has happened, so I can't comment any more than that on the stability.
View full review »I haven't had any reports about any incident or problem, so I assume it's stable and working fine. It's good.
So far, no issues with stability.
View full review »It is extremely stable. We don't really have any problems. They release updates pretty frequently if there are any major issues. We've never suffered a catastrophic failure. It's been pretty enterprise grade, rock-solid for us.
View full review »It is very stable.
View full review »The 3PAR is very reliable. Most of our performance complaints went away after we put the 3PARs in. We also went from a 4 GB to 16 GB fibre channel, so it’s simple to manage and easily serviceable by our technicians.
View full review »So far, we've had no issues.
View full review »It's been quite stable. There's been things that have broken for us, like discs and some other ports, but the system still works.
View full review »All the issues we encountered were due to human error.
View full review »It’s been very stable. In comparison to what we had before, it’s a 10/10 -- incredibly stable.
View full review »The stability is fine. We put disks in the system a couple of weeks ago, which went off without a hitch.
View full review »It's very stable, and very fast. Creating virtual disks took literally one minute for a 100GB VM disk.
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 easy to use and very stable.
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Guillermo Daniel Lisotti
IT Manager at Judiciary of Neuquen
We have had no problems so far.
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Hamilton Ribeiro Dos Santos
IT Manager at Maquinas Jacto
It's stable. I can't recall any problem with the 3PAR technology.
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Director9019
Director at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us.
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Kasper Billeskov
Storage Service Architect at NNIT
We have a bad track record on the 3PAR system. We also have some Virtual Fibre Channel (VFC) storage platforms. However, we had a bad start on 3PAR. It is going better now.
View full review »Absolutely stable. After we moved to Exadata the stability has been good. First, we used to go through Microsoft patching every month. With Exadata and Linux, we do only the firmware once in a quarter. It was really only required that we do it because we were behind two firewalls, so we didn't have to apply all the patches.
View full review »The stability is great for our customers and for us. It's perfect.
View full review »So far, we're very stable; we've been using it for a couple of years now.
View full review »The stability is very good.
View full review »We have some issues with it, but HPE has been very good. Their partners have been very good in working with us and slowly inching us out of the curb.
View full review »It's stable. There haven’t been any problems. If something goes wrong, HPE support helps us.
View full review »We've had very little problems with stability.
View full review »It's stable generally. When we had problems, it was due to an omission in our manual process and not in the automated process. It's quite techy, so you need to make sure you have someone on your staff or an outside expert to provide advice.
View full review »It’s excellent; no complaints. I’m very impressed with it.
View full review »I did find a bug in the system in 3.1.2 MU3. Deleted data on the 3PAR did not reclaim the deleted space.
View full review »None! We had a failed disk and have had replacements before we even knew! Rebuild times are fast!
View full review »The stability is so far so good. It has been pretty seamless. We've used it now about eight months and it's been stable since then.
No stability issues at this stage.
View full review »It's pretty strong; actually, it is five nines (99.999 percent).
Stability is top-notch.
View full review »The stability is pretty good.
View full review »The stability is good.
View full review »We've had no problems with firmware, so all of this is really done smoothly without interruptions.
View full review »No problems or issues with stability. We get notified from HP when the updates come out--really simple, quick, and easy with no downtime.
View full review »Very dependable system structure to each node on healthy clusters.
View full review »Never as of yet. It has been rock solid!
View full review »3PAR is a stable product.
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Computerd47b
Computer Systems Administrator at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees
The stability of the solution is very good.
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ManagerL4e9d
Manager Lab Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The stability is good, we really like the stability and uptime.
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DataCentc0ab
Data center team lead at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability has been an issue going back to the dedupe issue.
View full review »The stability is really good. Even though there is some downtime, the support is really fast.
View full review »It is performing great; no downtime.
View full review »Whatever failures you have, there is no single point of failure. So, any failure, you get an alert, you have time, you plan the fix, the replacement, and so on. So your operations are intact.
We haven't had any downtime. There have been some small issues sometimes with an upgrade, a link went down but we didn't investigate further. Or sometimes we send it to support but it takes too long. But no downtime, not like we hear from other customers. Sometimes they really have a node that reboots; or our colleagues in Hungary, they had some issues, but we haven't had any downtime or the like with our 3PAR systems. We're happy about that.
View full review »It has been very stable.
View full review »So far, the scalability is good.
Stability got off to a rocky start. It has been much more stable after we went through some best practices guides. We ran into some issues where we had to work with support and high level engineers to get through. It was not something that was readily apparent, but we were able to overcome those issues. Had we followed the best practices guide from the beginning, it might have been avoided.
View full review »It's very stable. We did an OS upgrade three weeks ago. It went very smoothly without any interruptions. It was great.
View full review »There were some bugs, but after the latest update, it is acting more stable.
View full review »This is a stable solution. We have used it for three years.
View full review »We haven't had a single problem yet. I'm quite happy with that actually.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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Eduardo Fontanella
Infrastructure Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is reliable. The product is rich and very stable. Since we started, we have not had any problems.
Also, we have some upgrades that we have needed to start for a while. However, stability is a characteristic of the product.
View full review »It is very stable. That is why we bought it.
Sometimes when we do firmware upgrades, then we must have downtime, but this is plant maintenance.
It is very stable. We have not experienced any stability issues with the 3PAR Storage. We have other vendors' storage solutions (three of them) and we have experienced issues with their storage solutions.
View full review »The stability is always very good.
View full review »We don't have any problems with stability. The way we've configured it gives us a lot of resilience.
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reviewer1754823
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a stable product.
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reviewer1661601
Snr Systems Enginee at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
HPE 3PAR StoreServ has been stable.
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Mesut KARACA
Responsible for information processing at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's stable. Although we experienced malfunctions where a virus was running and it failed.
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Mesut KARACA
Responsible for information processing at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is stable. We haven't had any issues in that respect in the time we've used it. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches.
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Jay Liu
Manager Of Storage And Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We had a rocky start. It has been stable for last year or so.
View full review »It is very stable.
View full review »Stability is great.
View full review »We haven’t had any issues or downtime.
View full review »It's very stable. Yes, we've had issues with it. Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues.
Stability is good; we had issues at first, but we have cleared them up.
View full review »The stability is very good. When we buy flexible capacity from HPE, there are HPE personnel that are drifting the solution for us 24/7, 365 days a year.
View full review »We had some issues with power down recovery and boot disk issues. Other than that, it's a stable solution.
View full review »No issues encountered. The product performs as advertised.
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reviewer1620432
System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is a stable solution.
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reviewer1471356
Service & Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
3PAR systems are stable. We don't have any problem, but in the past, we had a problem with the 3PAR disk. I don't remember the disk vendor, but it was about the disk. That's why we changed all disk parts, which was a bit of hard work for us. We didn't have any other problem other than the disk problem a few years ago.
View full review »It is very stable.
View full review »This solution has been in production for a year and a half, and we have installed everything on it. It’s 99% stable. We had some crashes, but they were due to technical problems. All companies have these kinds of things happen.
View full review »We are fortunate that they haven't had any incidences yet. It just works.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »We haven't seen any issues with this.
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
The hardware stability is very good.
View full review »No downtime, it's stable, and they are very happy with it.
We have had no stability issues.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »The stability’s fine.
View full review »We've had no issues with instability.
View full review »It's stable.
View full review »Yes, we have had a few issues with stability.
We haven't had an issue yet.
View full review »No issues if you plan properly.
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reviewer1386717
Technical Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1480734
Senior technical and storage expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is not really stable. It should be more stable.
View full review »The solution is very stable. HPE is always stable.
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ITManagedead
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability is good.
View full review »No issues.
View full review »It's very stable.
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