It's advantageous in terms of the cost, in terms of the performance, and taking up less space. We are exploring more with this storage.
Systems Engineer at Ajman
We use a virtual domain to create pools for our clients to manage their own storage
Pros and Cons
- "It's advantageous in terms of the cost, in terms of the performance, and taking up less space."
- "We use a virtual domain in 3PAR and we can create individual pools where clients are able to manage their own resources, instead of we, as storage admin, getting involved in that."
How has it helped my organization?
What is most valuable?
It has features which are really giving advantages to our company, because we as a service provider are providing the services, infrastructure, and applications - or software as a service - to other entities. In that case, a virtual domain has been introduced in 3PAR and we can create their own pool where they are able to manage their own resources, instead of we, as storage admin, getting involved in that.
What needs improvement?
The features we need to provide to the different entities, it's meeting our criteria. That is the reason we went ahead with 3PAR, and we implemented it in the environment. So far, so good. People are asking for the services and, yes, we do provide the services through the 3PAR.
And IOPs which has been gravely needed in terms of the back end and in terms of the front end, to meet application needs, I'm glad it's meeting up. So we are not encountering any risk at all.
For how long have I used the solution?
Less than one year.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
So far, no disaster has happened, so I can't comment any more than that on the stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
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.
How are customer service and support?
So far I've only opened one case, in the beginning when I implemented a 3PAR in my environment, and I can say I'm satisfied.
How was the initial setup?
It is straightforward. It's user friendly.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did an evaluation comparing it with the EMC, and we determined that it's better to go ahead with this.
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Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at loanDepot
There is a performance hit for a few hours/days every time you add additional storage. The initial setup is okay.
What is most valuable?
This product does not impress me anymore.
What needs improvement?
This solution should have better reporting and alerting. Deduplication and compression should function without a performance hit. The 16TB LUN limitations should be fixed.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used this solution for over seven years at many different companies.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
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.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The main issue is the 16TB LUN limit. This bug has not been addressed for years!
How are customer service and technical support?
I would rate the level of technical support as average.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was average.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
For the price you pay, there are far better products out there.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I evaluated Pure Storage before choosing.
What other advice do I have?
Do not buy this solution. It lacks the innovation required to compete in the market.
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Senior Network Engineer at Colonial Savings
Manageability and reliability are the most valued features.
What is most valuable?
Manageability and reliability are the most valued features of 3PAR. We've had no issues with it. We did a lot of research before we installed it. The other three companies we looked at were top of the line.
How has it helped my organization?
We did not lose connectivity, as we did with the other units. We've had no failed drives. The system has been up and running for almost four years now and there has not been an issue anywhere.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is very scalable. We've added quite a bit to it since we started.
How are customer service and technical support?
We have used technical support. They were great.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
The system we had prior to 3PAR had a lot of drives. We didn't lose any data, but it was just not reliable.
How was the initial setup?
I was involved in the initial setup. It was pretty straightforward.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We looked at two other vendors. One was Compellent and one was EMC. Through our research and talking to various companies that were already using 3PAR, it was determined to be the better product.
When selecting a product, reliability and support are the most important requirements.
What other advice do I have?
It's a very reliable product. I would advise them to get it.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Director - Data Centre Operations at MCAP
One of the features we use is Peer Persistence as part of our code DR strategy. OneView licensing has been somewhat cost prohibitive for us.
What is most valuable?
What's relatively common in most SAN environments is consolidation of storage under a single management interface or pool. The ability to quickly scale and expand storage as required, and to accommodate whatever deliverables you're putting out there. I think one of the advantages of 3PAR obviously is its tiered storage, as well as its visibility, deduplication in the flash is a big component. Just being a holistic solution that you can rely on as a cornerstone to the foundation for your underlying infrastructure. You have that flexibility to use it for your virtual infrastructure, grow it out to accommodate other storage requirements. It's a single framework or platform that you can use to accommodate pretty much all your storage requirements.
One of the features we use is Peer Persistence on the storage, so that's part of our core DR strategy, so that we have two data centers, we synch and replicate the data between the two centers. Then in the event of a disaster, because we're a virtualized environment, we can fail the storage over, and fail our VMs over, and we can be up and running. We test it on an annual basis, and we completely can fail all of one data center into another data center, and within an hour and a half, we have everything up and tested and back online. That's been our DR exercise.
How has it helped my organization?
Although there's been a lot of technical advancement, one of my biggest beefs with HP's drive towards OneView as a management platform for this point is really around their licensing. It's been somewhat cost prohibitive. Obviously with the new release of OneView in the near future, the licensing model is going to change, but for customers who may already have a heavy investment in hardware infrastructure, who were not previously licensed with ILO Enterprise, for example, and did not have those rights for utilizing OneView, having to backtrack and buy all new licensing in order to be able accommodate that, in order to be able to manage their infrastructure, it kind of takes away from the whole simplification of having everything under a single pane of glass if you're now forced to have to go back and relicense initial investments to be able to take advantage of that technology.
That being said, I will state that it does look like HP understands and has recognized that, and I think that's really why they're trying to make the advancements and the changes that they are in terms of having that. They're pushing it to be that kind of single unified management infrastructure component, and knowing that they want to push customers towards that, I think they also recognize that in order to do that, they have to put some incentive there to make it worthwhile for customers to make that investment and change in their management strategy.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
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.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We didn't switch in terms of the technology. We switched to the latest 3PAR technology. We previously used 7400s. We wanted to move from a managed services to self-managing, and the contract was coming up for renewal, so that was a golden opportunity to swing off and do our own thing.
What other advice do I have?
Really understand what your needs and requirements and future expectations are. Every vendor has a product that fits in the same market space, whether it be Dell, IBM or HP. I think it's really about what your long-term expectations and goals are. With 3PAR for example, if a lot of your underlying infrastructure is HP, it might make sense to go that way, to maintain that consistency. From a management an usability perspective, the full integration components, everything from your Blade, your Interconnects, your storage, your management platforms. Almost all the major vendors now are doing some form of deduplication, compression, storage tiering. I think it really comes down to knowing and understanding what you're looking for. Sometimes it's more of a business related decision and politics than it is an actual technical merit. I would say really understanding what your workloads are, what you're looking to get out of any investment that you make, and then taking it from there.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
CIO at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We chose to go with it because it runs on OpenVMS.
What is most valuable?
We went with 3PAR because we primarily use other storage solutions for our main production products. We chose 3PAR for one product because it runs on OpenVMS and it's only certified to run on HPE. That's why we went with 3PAR. It was a smooth transition over. It went pretty stable. We got an outside HPE VAR to help with the rollover. It's been very stable since we moved to it so.
What needs improvement?
It's a mature product. It's been working fine.
For how long have I used the solution?
It's been about eight months.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
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.
How are customer service and technical support?
We have an HPE VAR on the openVMS side that helps us too. We kind of reach out to them if we do.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We switched from a really old legacy platform storage solution that was just into life. We were running it on Data Vault which was an HPE product.
How was the initial setup?
We switched from a really old legacy platform storage solution. I'm pretty sure we were running it on NetApp at the time.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
In most cases Pure Storage is better. It's better overall, and allows us to scale up faster, the cost of ownership's lower, and the replication across areas is good. 3PAR is not bad either, but Pure Storage is just more competitive.
What other advice do I have?
I would also evaluate others hard. We use Pure Storage in other areas a lot.
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CIO at Anadolu Medical Center
We need speed, and this provides it. We have strict SLAs, and 3PAR allows me to put the right people together very quickly.
Valuable Features
We need performance and this provides it. We also need affordable prices -- both at sales and post-sales -- and maintenance.
In terms of technical support, our local HP team supports my requests and I know we can turn to them to understand our issues.
In terms of the technology itself, it's not much different from other technologies. But what sets it apart if what happens after the sale -- maintenance and support.
We also need speed, and this provides it. We have strict SLAs, and 3PAR allows me to put the right people together very quickly.
Room for Improvement
I'd like their technical support to be better. If we need to go to level three, there isn't always someone locally and it can be time consuming to get someone with the right skills.
Use of Solution
We installed it 12 years ago, moved to NetApp, then back to HP because of the maintenance costs.
Stability Issues
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.
Scalability Issues
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.
Customer Service and Technical Support
They support my team. We get second-level support from our local partner and third-level support from HP directly.
Initial Setup
It was a straightforward migration.
Other Advice
If it is a first time investment, it's no problem. If it's a migration, then you need to take care of the migration risks as well. There should be no data loss because migration is risky.
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Senior Server Engineer/Service Owner at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
I use the reports when I want to see performance, like how the discs are performing and how the AL is moving data to and from tiers.
Valuable Features
There are several valuable features, including the easy-to-use application and straightforward end-user tools. That's been helpful for me and there's nothing complicated to learn. The reporting and charting are also actually quite good. I use the reports when I want to see performance, like how the discs are performing and how the AL is moving data to and from tiers.
Improvements to My Organization
I think it leverages our investments of using this multi-tiered storage approach. We have SSDs, we have SAS, and we have inline SAS, so we're able to have a lot more teams running in one environment rather than having to build separate environments, and understand which applications need high performance and which don't need high performance. 3PAR does that thinking for us using it's adaptive optimization. It's been successful for us. The technology is sound, they used 3PAR quite heavily in our organization. It's been a quite good experience.
Room for Improvement
It needs better statistics and configuration. The system allows too much human input. It's automated enough, but it wants you to determine some of the settings. If you do them wrong, you can make a very good system perform badly. If you do it well, you can make an under-permissioned system perform very well. There should be more best practices that they suggest, not "okay, what do you want."
I'd also like to see better real time performance rather than charts and graphs you've got to go in all the time. It'd be nice to have something running all the time, like a real tool from which you can actually see performance of what's actually happening rather than having to go in all the time and generate them. Real-time notifications, real-time performance statistics. They have those, but they're all command line and I can't keep the session running all day on some screen. You have to go in to get them and you can't really provide a thumb display for customers to see.
Deployment Issues
Deployments haven't been an issue.
Stability Issues
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.
Scalability Issues
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.
Customer Service and Technical Support
Technical support has been very good. The guys on the line are knowledgeable even at level one.
Initial Setup
The initial setup was straightforward. I don't think it was too complex. We've used other technology that's much more difficult to use. I haven't had 3PAR experience before, mostly Dell and Hitachi and some other EMC.
Other Solutions Considered
We evaluated Hitachi and we chose HP because of the price and ease-of-use.
Other Advice
Plan what the I/O needs are. You need better statistics before you buy something. Really plan to see what the loads are.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Director, IT Services at University of Auckland
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The most valuable features to us are the automatic failover and the peer persistence. As we grow our data quite significantly, we're still working on scalability.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features to us are the automatic failover, the peer persistence, and that ability to be able to be confident that if we have a data center outage, that our business will keep running. Those were the features from a business perspective that were the most important to me.
How has it helped my organization?
Some of the benefits that we're facing in using 3PAR, I did mention before, are around the ability to patch our systems quite easily. We can easily failover. We know that if there are any issues, we can continue to provide services. We recently had a power outage in Aukland, which tested our data centers, our mechanicals, and electricals in the data centers. It also helped us understand that if we did have a problem in one data center, we could easily file between the two very easily.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
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.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
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.
How are customer service and technical support?
The technical support has been absolutely fantastic. The whole project, when it went in, was really a joint partnership between HP, VMware, and the University. Everyone worked really well to make sure it got in on time, on budget, and was successful. It was a good project.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We knew we needed to invest in a new solution because we had a lot of issues in our data centers. We needed to increase our resilience and make sure that we could have our teaching and learning and research continue while we might have data center outages or if there was any problems.
How was the initial setup?
The whole project seemed straightforward to me, as I was the business owner. I didn't see a lot of the technical issues going on in the background. It might have been a bit more complex for my team, but it was fairly straight forward. They managed to migrate 650 VMs without any outages. It was a Greenfields's solution. We didn't have any resilience for a number of our faculty machines. We had quite a number of data center outages because of some physical issues in the data centers. It was highlighted that not having resilience for our faculties, for their file services, and for their research, and for their cost material was not appropriate. We really needed to be able to put something in place so we could increase our resilience. It's also helped us to increase our security and all sorts of other aspects, and have all sorts of other benefits, not just resilience.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
It needed to fit into our current infrastructure. We needed to make sure that whatever we put in place had as minimal effort required regarding staff work load. We wanted to make sure that it didn't need any manual intervention in order to failover. The peer persistence that the 3PAR has was also important to us to make sure that we had replicated data, and we could access it quickly and easily. Recovering quickly and little data loss were the most important things to us. We had a few vendors on our short list. The reason we chose HP was it fitted those criteria very well. I would rate the 3PAR system fairly highly because it met our requirements of what we needed at the time. We're quite comfortable using it. We're seeing less stress from teams around issues that we have had in the past.
What other advice do I have?
It just depends on what your requirements are. You've got to match your requirements to the system you need. Very important, we do reference checks. We do make sure we get all our requirements. We do comparisons. We've got pretty strict procurement requirements and we stick to those.
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