HPE 3PAR StoreServ Reviews

The valuable feature for me is the best performance when I source the data. I manage a lot of data and my storage is very low.

I had a lot of problems with storage before. When I implemented this solution, the storage was faster. There is very little down time.

I would like to see better implementation with Veeam.

It is very stable.

The scalability is very easy for this solution.

I have used technical support. They are available 24/7. They provide good support for this solution. I got a replacement part at my site in four hours.

I used Dell. When I changed to 3PAR, it was easier. Dell has delays and didn’t always have equipment. HPE has better service.

When selecting a vendor, I look for support and price.

The setup was straightforward. It was not a complex implementation.

The solution is fast. I’m very excited about it. It's very easy to implement and manage.

Most valuable to us is that the 3PAR is very easy to use and has good response times.

It is a very responsive system with no latencies and high performance.

I would really like to see it be more efficient at reclaiming storage when deleting something, instead of just being thin at the start.

There were some bugs, but after the latest update, it is acting more stable.

Technical support is excellent.

We have many different types of solutions. Since HPE is one of our partners, it was natural to evaluate their products and buy from them.

Initial setup was straightforward.

We looked at some of the bigger vendors like Dell EMC and IBM, of course.

We use it for mission-critical apps and database. It runs our core banking applications.

It helps our core applications run very fast. It has increased overall performance by about 60 percent. There is one process which has gone from taking seven hours to taking one hour. It's a key for storage in our organization.

They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes. It's also very solid and reliable in our environment.

We would like to see full virtual. We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR.

The hardware stability is very good.

It's very scalable. For our organization, it's very scalable and at low cost.

Overall, technical support depends, but mission-critical support is a nine out of ten.

We needed the capacity and faster processing.

The initial setup was very easy. It went very quickly.

We used an integrator, HPE Enterprise Support. Our experience with them was very good.

HPE is the preferred solution for our company.

I would recommend 3PAR, especially in the financial industry where data is mission-critical. It's very good.

IOPS, reliability and the value that it adds to our organization are the most valuable features.

Maybe, there is a need to have an easier interface. They could improve the storage platforms.

There are some things that are missing. We had some initial hardware problems that gave us a bad taste. We did, eventually, fix them but it did take a little bit of time to resolve them. These were either hardware issues, disk drive issues or connectivity issues, we just couldn't figure it out.

So far, the scalability is good.

It is very scalable.

The technical support is pretty good.

We were using a different solution previously, we were using EMC. Since we were hitting the ceiling of the hardware, we decided to switch over to HPE. Cost was the main reason why we moved over to HPE.

We looked at other solutions such as HPE and Hitachi.
The most important criteria while selecting a vendor are if it is user-friendly, the support provided and cost.

This is a great product.

The most valuable feature is being all-flash. We have an all-flash SAN. It has been great having production systems be much faster than they were previously. The UI is nice. It is easy to work with.

It has been easier to provision storage and it has been faster using it.

I would like to see compression and deduplication. I know that future versions of the software will have compression.

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.

We have scaled it and the scalability is great. You have to add everything in pairs though, so we're at a point now where a small addition would require some extra overhead. In general, we've been able to double the storage and get better availability out of it. It wasn't too crazy.

Technical support has been helpful when I've been able to reach them. We would try to submit support cases online and that didn't work. I never heard back from them. I finally figured out there was a phone number to call. Everyone likes to do everything online if they can, but the phone number has gotten me through to support.

Our SAN was outdated, so we needed to get something new. We evaluated some different vendors instead of sticking with our typical one. We ended up switching over to 3PAR. We were using EMC VNX. This decision took place before I came on-board, but I believe the short list was HPE was EMC.

When selecting a vendor I look for support. That is ironic, given my previous answer that indicated otherwise. Support is a big deal. If you need help, you want to be able to get it.

I was not involved in the installation. I wish I would have been involved. I inherited it.

Read the best practices guides.

One single rack with the ability to expand and grow as needed. We are not currently using flash, but probably will in the future for some database solutions.

We now have the ability to expand storage on-demand as needed. The application won’t run out of space as it's really easy to add a disk and continue without any interruption.

The management console could be improved, but the newest release already seems much better than the previous version.

We haven’t had any issues or downtime.

Everything was fine when we needed support. So far so good.

We had aging equipment with capacity limitations.

We also looked at EMC.

We look at cost and scalability. We’ve had room to grow as needed based on demand or business needs. We now have 1500 global users.

You should look at 3PAR as it's flexible, stable, and provides the growth and stability you need from a storage solution.

Most importantly for us, this product provides us with flexibility, it has a tiered architecture, and was easy to adopt into our IT infrastructure.

We built our data warehouse around it, which now operates much more efficiently. We have a smaller footprint, thus saving us physical space and costs associated with larger structures.

I'd like to see more and better documentation on how we can get more out of it. This is lacking right now and I feel like we can do much more with our investment. Both documentation and education on how to best use the product would be nice.

We've had it for three years.

We haven't had any issues with deployment.

We don't have any problems with stability. The way we've configured it gives us a lot of resilience.

It's extremely scalable.

The setup and configuration were pretty straightforward. We were able to quickly adopt it and to get the ball rolling.

A third-party proposed the solution to us and we bought it.

We did evaluate other options as we were going through a third-party supplier, but I can't recall specifically which other vendors we considered.

It's the basis of the storage of one of our five companies. All ERP and customer products rely on 3PAR storage. It's used heavily every day.

It's fast and it's affordable.

No complaints. 

No downtime, it's stable, and they are very happy with it.

I can't say anything about this because they bought the necessary size two years ago, and they don't need to expand for now.

The support is good. Fortunately, we have not needed to call them many times.

It's much better than two other platforms we have, one of them is EVA4400. EVA is less affordable and not as powerful. It works, but it's very much less powerful. For example, six months ago during a restore, the production environment was completely blocked, it worked slowly. This doesn't happen on full-flash 3PAR.

It was straightforward. No problems.

When we look to work with a vendor we look for 

• response to our calls
• affordability 
• that they have been in the market many years
• the cost.

I rate it an eight out of 10 for the reasons I've already mentioned: the affordability, the speed.