HPE 3PAR StoreServ Reviews

We started to initiate a business continuity project, to cover disaster recovery scenarios, and we decided to implement a 3PAR solution for the Remote Copy functionality from this area. We can share this with software integration and cover the business requirements.

We have never had problems, it's running well. The other point is the performance that the storage provides. We currently use 3PAR with full flash, and the performance is really amazing.

I saw recently saw that they will integrate the predictive software from Nimble with 3PAR, and I think that's a good move. With the next firmware release, software release, we will really profit from this integration. I think it's a really good idea that HPE is now integrating this as a possibility on 3PAR.

It will completely meet our needs, moving forward.

It's difficult to say anything about tech support, because it's running so well that we are not regularly in contact with support. I think we had some issues during the implementation phase. We had, I would say, two or three times where we contacted the support, which was really good. I have no complaints. The knowledge and the competence were good.

Because we are so happy with 3PAR, it's so reliable for us, for the moment we don't see any move to Nimble storage. It depends on the strategy from HPE. They will probably combine the two storage technologies; I don't know what will be the future.

We are using many products from HPE. We are using storage savers and 3PAR, and even the private cloud. We are happy with the service, the products, the support. This is what we like most. It is only not about buying something. The support and the services you get after buying is the most important thing in IT.

Anything that will make the datacenter more scalable, more available, that would be great. Also, easier to operate or monitor, that would be good.

I haven't had any reports about any incident or problem, so I assume it's stable and working fine. It's good.

In general what HPE can provide, it can meet my needs.

Usually the support is through partners, a contract after the sale, and they are always available. Kuwait is a small country so they are onsite. We don't have a problem contacting tech support.

When it comes to upgrades, if they're complex, they're complex from our side. We need to identify what we need exactly, and most of the time this is done with a consultant or in cooperation with HPE and their partners. Once we know exactly what we need and what we're missing, then it's straightforward.

Because we are a university, it may be that our IT is more sensitive because the whole learning process depends on the IT services. So any problem, even for a short duration, would cause a big headache.

I give 3PAR an eight out of 10. I'm happy. We are happy. We cannot give it a perfect score because they need to improve more. We always we need to push them.

• It's fast.
• You can mix cheap storage with expensive storage.
• It's very reliable. It's a system that is 100%; no failures.

We have approximately 100 companies renting servers and storage from us. We are using HPE 3PAR to achieve a hybrid IT solution, combined with Asher.

It helps us earn money.

I want an easier solution for provisioning new servers. Currently we need to go in, set up a server, give the server names and functions, declare the number of gigabytes the server has for storage, and so on.

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.

It is very flexible in terms of scalability.

Technical support is very good.

We have three EVAs that we were using before we took 3PAR.

I would advise colleagues to buy the flexible capacity that HPE provides with 3PAR.

When we selected HPE, our most important criterion is that they cooperate well with us.

This tool is directly attached to the ProLiant server. It has very, very low latency.

The solution hasn’t benefited the entire company. It's a special solution that has provided benefit for part of the company. We have global data instruments around the world. This tool has allowed us to decrease the data import time from nine hours to just one hour.

I would like to see fewer licenses.

This is a stable solution. We have used it for three years.

It is the end of the product. We had to buy all of our 3PAR products in 2012. At the time, it was a new product. It wasn't viable. It is now running out of disk space.

We have used technical support. They are on time and very good. They provide good solutions.

We did not have a previous solution. We had a service provider, which had IBM solutions. I needed a solution for a particular application, and HPE 3PAR was one part of the solution.

I was involved in the installation. We have problems every time. Sometimes there are three parts to one problem.

For example, I had to get help from the engineering team in India. It took a year to solve this issue. There was new documentation in which the installation requirements for the disaster tolerant systems changed. That is one of the installation issues.

We didn’t have an alternative at the time. Our client could only work with 3PAR. There were no other products in the world which could do that in 2012. I don't know about solutions that are available today.

I have experience with HPE since 1996. I'm a member of "Connect". I know HPE better than I know IBM.

Some HPE solutions are very good. In terms of performance and digital equipment, they have very good knowledge in some types of IT.

HPE tries to be visionary, but I don't think they are. Perhaps they have the right products today, but the whole world is changing.

I could help a colleague who is making a decision by showing him our HPE solutions. I could explain what we have done and why.

The speed and the storage optimization are the best features. I realized that instead of mixing with the traditional hard drives and flash, we could go with flash. We made an RFP, and found that for more or less the same cost, we could get an all-flash solution.

• We removed a lot of the restrictions of our old storage solution so we would have better performing applications.
• We didn’t have to worry about storage anymore.

We are waiting for the compression to use on a daily basis. We have some deep ticket issues that I know about related to this. Otherwise, we are fairly happy with the solution.

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.

We are fairly small. We are at the moment 800 virtual services. For us, it has very good scalability; but we are very, very small.

It's not me personally, but some of the technicians are pleased with the support. They have pulled back what have been problems. We are comfortable with their support.

The previous solution was getting old. It was getting harder to replace with lifecycle handling, so we knew that we needed a new storage system.

The initial setup was fairly straightforward. We migrated since we are totally virtualized on VMware. We changed all the storage to the 3PAR within a few weeks. Without any downtime or anything. It was very, very good.

We made an RFP that was open to everyone. We evaluated an old flash solution that was better than the traditional solution; but you can't buy an old flash solution if you're going to buy as big as a traditional solution. So you have to have the optimizations that 3PAR has. Otherwise, you're not in business. It gets too expensive.

We had offers from EMC and from IBM, but our HPE partner came up with the best offer, so they won the RFP.

If you want Sun or old fashioned good storage optimization technology, then 3PAR is very, very good.

It is affordable and trustworthy with high availability. It has never been down since I’ve been using it.

Everything I need is in already, but we could maybe use a bit more monitoring to get more insight into performance and where the bottlenecks are.

It is very good in terms of stability.

The scalability is nice. I need to expand the system by 70 TBs this year, so I just added more shelves. That's pretty easy.

I'm doing it all by myself.

We were using a slower solution, and then it went down a few times. So we were looking for something more stable.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We tried Fujitsu and NetApp.

Support is the most important factor to us when selecting a vendor.

I would recommend this.

• High granularity
• Easy to use
• Convergence with the HPE/VMware ecosystem

3PAR's ease-of-use has really improved our functioning because it requires less administration and less tuning. It really just works.

We need something with less performance and lower cost to fill a gap in our customer solution offerings. We'd like to be able to have something like branch office storage, which is still capable of interacting with enterprise systems like 3PAR 8400, for example, in terms of replication, backup capability, peer motion, etc. Specifically, we need lower end 3PAR devices. Sometimes, we need 3PAR for the same cost of an MSA2040 to replace it.

There have been no issues with deploying it.

We had some issues with power down recovery and boot disk issues. Other than that, it's a stable solution.

We had no issues scaling it for our needs.

3PAR made its success by scaling down enterprise systems to the mid-range level, which was not typical for the storage market. Although no one cares about inventing something cheap, HP did it with 3PAR and succeeded.

But my advice would to try it! It's cool.

HPE 3PAR StoreServ is used as a flash storage system.

HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use and has good performance.

The solution could improve by being more secure.

I have been using HPE 3PAR StoreServ for approximately six years.

I have not contacted the support from HPE.

The installation is straightforward.

We have a technical team of approximately 20 engineers and administrators that supports HPE 3PAR StoreServ. 

I recommend this solution to others.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.