All of our servers are HPE, and it links all of the 12 remote ports that we have in Saudi Arabia, so we have only one centralized datacenter. It is the building ground of Saudi Ports' authority, to be honest.
HPE Alliance Manager
Links our 12 remote ports into one centralized datacenter
What is our primary use case?
What needs improvement?
The backup batteries, the WPS, could be better. We have two different vendors that provide the WPS, and HPE is one of them. When we had the outage we shut down the entire thing and tried the backup generators. The electricity was out for 20 minutes and the HPE battery didn't last 10 minutes.
For how long have I used the solution?
A little over a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
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.
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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
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.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is quick and responsive. They will prioritize things based on how critical the problem is. If they need to be on site, they will come on site. If they don't, then they will fix the problem remotely; just log in and do what they need to do.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have not looked at other vendors because we are very happy with HPE. We are currently looking to upgrade within HPE.
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Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees
Automation of the failover allows the IT department of the hospital to improve the availability of systems.
What is most valuable?
Transparant redundancy for VMware virtual machines, because this makes it possible that storage switches over from one system to another without interruption of the VMs.
How has it helped my organization?
Automation of the failover allows the IT department of the hospital to improve the availability of systems.
What needs improvement?
From a personal point of view, what would interest me is a mechanism that detects file-rot, i.e. that detects whether a file or sector has become corrupt; for example, as a result of copying the sector to other locations from the original location.
On a file basis, this is implemented in ZFS, where for each file, some error-check is calculated and stored. Periodically, the file system can be scrubbed to detect corruption early, so that a corrupt file can be restored from backups.
3PAR is based on block-storage, so this feature would have to be implemented at block-level.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using the product since the beginning of 2014.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We did not encounter any issues with stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We did not encounter any issues with scalability.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used HP EVA previously.
How was the initial setup?
The setup was fairly straightforward because we emphasized simplicity as an important purchase criteria.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Other systems evaluated were Dell EqualLogic, Hitachi, IBM, Netapp.
What other advice do I have?
Don't buy either the oldest or the newest technology!
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Sales Channel Manager at Portenntum
The most valuable features are price and becoming certified.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features are having the proper contacts, getting a better price, and becoming certified. For example, our partners get certified because we are the only partner who has the most certifications.
How has it helped my organization?
It has helped us work much better.
What needs improvement?
HPE Mexico takes a lot of time to register and deliver. After we negotiated the final price, HPE releases it and then it takes 48 to 72 hours to deliver it. This is not the best deal.
For how long have I used the solution?
for the last 4 years
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is great for our customers and for us. It's perfect.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is sufficient. We are expanding our operations now.
How is customer service and technical support?
I have used technical support and I would give them a rating of 8/10. Their staff just came from university and they are still getting experience.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was very complex, because it was our first installation.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We didn't evaluate any other solutions besides HPE.
What other advice do I have?
Of course, you should go for it. We are an HPE shop and we have to focus on that. We have to focus more on the competence and less on the financial considerations.
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IT Manager at Turku PET Centre
For us, the most important feature is reliability.
What is most valuable?
For us, the most important feature is reliability. It must be tough because we work in a hospital and we want it to be solid. It must work always, always, always.
How has it helped my organization?
We count on that it works and it's always on; at a quarter of the price. The price and the reliability are key for us.
What needs improvement?
We need faster disks, but their solid-state disk takes care of that. But they are expensive. I think the solution is to spend more money.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
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.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
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.
How are customer service and technical support?
Technical support is not so good. They don't understand us and we don't understand them. We had quite simple questions and tend to be transferred somewhere else.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Actually, it was HPE old technology. We really didn't switch anything. It's HPE already just old hardware, so we just upgraded.
How was the initial setup?
I was not involved with the setup.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We didn't consider any other vendors because we did an upgrade from old HPE hardware. We can trust it. The whole process works very smoothly. No downtime; that is important for us.
What other advice do I have?
We like the system, so I can suggest to a friend that 3PAR is okay.
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Storage and Virtualisation Analyst at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
You can set it up and let the system tune itself. Scales better than other solutions.
What is most valuable?
For me, the most valuable feature is its flexibility. You don't have to pre-plan everything. With more traditional storage systems, you had to decide on the size of your RAID groups and what RAID groups you wanted. A lot of customers don't know that upfront. The nice thing about 3PAR is you can set it up and just let the system essentially tune itself.
How has it helped my organization?
Since 3PAR is self tuning and it optimizes itself to a better level of performance, then that translates to the application level and the business users can get their functions done quicker and more efficiently.
What needs improvement?
I think it needs to become even more automated, especially with all this new hyper-converged functionality, which is really easy to upgrade. It should also be self-healing. The upgrade process is still quite clunky for 3PAR. It receives an alert from itself and then tells you what to do. At the moment it's not that intuitive.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with 3PAR for about four years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We've had very little problems with stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It can scale as long as the customer's got the budget.
How is customer service and technical support?
Technical support could be better. The guys you get on the phone generally are not very knowledgeable. It can often take a while to go through several levels of support to get to the solution.
How was the initial setup?
Initial setup is relatively complex.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I think the license structure is quite transparent and fair.
What other advice do I have?
I'd say are the main two qualities vendor must have is good product and good technical support. Obviously, they must also have a reasonable price.
3PAR is reliable. Although it takes a little bit of time to get set up, once you get set up, it runs itself. The other nice thing about it is that, the 3PAR scales from small to large nicely. Not like other vendors where you have to have several solutions for different size environments.
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Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We can quickly move our large volumes and check or test something, and if it's not faster with SSD, we can just move it back.
Valuable Features
With our previous EVA system, we couldn't shift data between different tiers online. We have multi-tiered storage and can move them online between SSD and global SAS. With 3PAR, we can quickly move our large volumes and check or test something, and if it's not faster with SSD, we can just move it back.
Improvements to My Organization
We have zero downtime with 3PAR. This saves us a lot of money as the business stays up and running.
Room for Improvement
There is only one thing I would really like to see, but I'm not entirely sure if this is actually 3PAR-related or not. I'd like real-time reporting. We can get reports, but it's difficult to monitor the system in real-time, which is critical, for example, when something is running slowly. It takes us hours to find out what the system is doing.
Also, real-time reporting will tell me who the "top talker" is at any given time. This is something we go to Brocade for to use their fiber channel and open grid. The first thing it shows is the top 5 talkers so you know that one of those is mostly likely causing the problem.
I think that 3PAR will eventually have the fiber channel feature, increasing its cost. I don't see us buying the license for that, though, as we've already spent a lot of money on 3PAR licenses.
Use of Solution
We've used it in production for one and a half years.
Stability Issues
We haven't had a single problem yet. I'm quite happy with that actually.
Customer Service and Technical Support
It's not good and kind of stressful when you're at the first level. Sometimes we have a hard time explaining what our problem is. We have to escalate the issue to someone who really knows what they're talking about.
Initial Setup
The initial setup with different tiers and adaptive optimizations was very easy after seeing the DQE. Migration of our data that first time was also very easy.
Pricing, Setup Cost and Licensing
The pricing is fair, but you have to pay for every little feature, which is something I really dislike about HP. You buy the software, then the hardware, then the OS license, then if you want more, you have to pay more just to put your data on it.
For example, if you want to replicate data, you have to get the replication license. You can't just replicate data and I can't always get budget approved to do that.
Other Advice
We're really happy with 3PAR as it performs very well despite a few failing discs, which is normal. Upgrades went well and we haven't had any outages. We'd recommend it to others.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We were able to consolidate disparate storage environments into a single chassis with multiple connection types.
What is most valuable?
Disk-utilization tier-ing (3PAR Adaptive Optimization)
How has it helped my organization?
The organization was able to consolidate disparate storage environments into a single chassis with multiple connection types, utilize the different disk tiers across all software/hardware connected platforms, all the time providing the fastest disk to the most utilized portions of storage as determined by the controllers.
What needs improvement?
While there is direct module integration with different Hyper Visors on the market, the actual software of those integrations do leave some feature integration off requiring both management interfaces. The greater this integration becomes the easier to manage the environment it will be.
For how long have I used the solution?
I used it for three years.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
All the issues we encountered were due to human error.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
All the issues we encountered were due to human error.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
All the issues we encountered were due to human error.
How are customer service and technical support?
HP technical support for 3PAR is excellent once you have navigated the call tree.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I utilized HP Lefthand devices and EVA SAN’s (Models 5000 and 4400)
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was complex in that requirements were not communicated well through the VAR and some parts needed to be sent back (PDU’s were of the wrong type) and the VAR assumed a Virtual Storage manager would be used, but a physical manager was both requested and required, which created an installation delay while the correct equipment was shipped.
What about the implementation team?
It was implemented through a vendor team, originally out-sourced by HP, then followed up by HP in-house technicians.
What was our ROI?
The implementation did not have an ROI to calculate as the products being migrated off of were end of life.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
- Dell Compellant
- EMC VMX
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Business Systems Manager with 501-1,000 employees
Flash storage is worth it for performance advantage and simplicity.
We were running HP servers and an HP storage area network (SAN), but with the business’s growth we were coming to a point where we either needed to upgrade the CPU and buy additional disks for the SAN, or replace everything – we considered both possibilities.
The application provider did have a version running on Windows, but we wanted the proven stability of UNIX, and in particular of HP’s HP-UX. MomentumPro is business-critical, and runs all our inventory and financial systems. We considered systems based on other UNIX platforms, but that would have involved bringing in a completely new operating system, which would add additional risk. If we had a year for the project we might have looked at other UNIX versions, but our business’s rapid expansion meant we had tight timescales– so we stayed on HP-UX to simplify the migration.
Once we had decided on HP-UX, we looked at the blades, storage and chassis available from HP. The blade system had the benefit that, as well as handling the expansion of the ERP, we could consolidate Windows environments and other servers onto the new infrastructure.
We chose an infrastructure housed in an HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure, and it selected an HP Integrity BL870c i4 Server Blade featuring HP-UX 11i v3. For storage, we selected HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 Storage system with thirty-two 480GB solid state disks (SSDs). The system includes HP FlexFabric interconnects.
Had we upgraded, we would have had perhaps just a year before we had to upgrade again. Also, with an upgrade, maintenance costs are increasing each year – but the replacement system included support, so we are ahead on operating expenditure.When we did a comparison, the replacement was lower in cost than the upgrade, with a fifteen month payback period on the hardware. By replacing the system, we could build everything and get it up and running without interfering with the current operation. If we had done an upgrade, there would have been significant downtime, even if there were no problems – but with a replacement we could build it all in parallel, do comprehensive testing and make sure everything was working.
The implementation went extremely well, and the engineering support people at HP were excellent – everything was here on time or early, and it all went smoothly. We built the new system and got the operating system loaded, the disks up and database restored, and were able to run tests till satisfied to give us a comfort factor. Then we took the users off the system and started the migration of data at 6pm, and had everything up and running by 11pm that night.
With the new infrastructure, the biggest single benefit is improved performance, not least due to the system’s solid state storage.The 3PAR storage was worth it for the performance advantage. We knew we had to speed up the processing, if we expand into Western Australia we would lose three hours from the overnight window, due to the time difference. We had to do the same tasks in a smaller timeframe.
The old system would already have been unable to cope – we would have been on about 99 per cent CPU, but at the moment we’re sitting at 15 per cent CPU. It’s a massive change – we would have been happy with a 50 per cent improvement, but we’ve got almost an 80 per cent increase. While the store rollout is the priority, we’re also going to look at adding extra functionality in the ERP application. In the past we were constrained by hardware performance, but the new system is giving us the opportunity to add more modules.
By moving from a rack-based server system to blades, we will be able to shrink infrastructure from eight cabinets to only two. HP’s de-duplication features will also save us money, as we will need to buy fewer disks to migrate our existing external servers onto Hyper-V virtual machines on the blades. We were at full storage capacity on the old system, but now with the 3PAR we will be at around 70 per cent after we have migrated Exchange onto the infrastructure – and that’s even before we add in the benefits of de-duplication.
This was a deliberate choice – we wanted a system with the flexibility to grow, without having to buy hardware now that we wouldn’t use for six or twelve months. The project has gone very well and exceeded my expectations, and I was surprised at the ease of deployment– all the different components integrated well together.
Overall, the biggest benefits for us were performance, simplicity of implementation and cost. Due to this positive experience with HP, we’re now looking at working with them in other areas of our business, and we’re already rolling out HP thin clients at some of our stores.
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Love hearing these kinds of stories. I think you made a great choice but so do others. HP 3PAR All-Flash won the All-Flash Array Product of the Year Award from TechTarget. I have a blog that talks about it. hpstorage.me There's been lots of other "best of" for the HP 3PAR family - if you're interested in those, drop me an email at hpstorageguy at hp dot com.

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