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Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information
Pros and Cons
  • "Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
  • "Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."

What is our primary use case?

For use with a major database for telecom customers who need to collect all of their customers' information.

How has it helped my organization?

Provides amazing performance all day in multiple workloads. We applied different usage models which showed great performance.

What is most valuable?

Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly.

What needs improvement?

Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information.

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For how long have I used the solution?

Still implementing.
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it_user565752 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user565752Marketing Operations Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Vendor

Why only two stars?

it_user783918 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
Vendor
Performance is good, it's cost effective, and we've had no downtime

How has it helped my organization?

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.

What is most valuable?

It's fast and it's affordable.

What needs improvement?

No complaints. 

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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.

How are customer service and technical support?

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

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

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.

How was the initial setup?

It was straightforward. No problems.

What other advice do I have?

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.

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Storage Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
It has given us higher performance over our servers and applications

What is most valuable?

  • It has a real active-active architecture, so one volume is served by both controllers with the processing advantage of a central global cache.
  • It is easy to manage with the management console.
  • It is always on with cache software.

How has it helped my organization?

It has given us higher performance over our servers/applications, which work better now than with our previous storage system.

What needs improvement?

It needs more host ports.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

We have had no issues with the deployment.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have had no stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

There have been no issues with scaling it for our needs.

What other advice do I have?

You should use HPE installation, or at the very least, authorized partners. 

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Sometimes HPE is a client for our knowledge in IT.
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it_user662934 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head - IT, Product Engineering & Service Delivery
Vendor
Meets with almost all the business requirements. It needs to be hardware independent.

What is most valuable?

It is an enterprise-class storage and meeting approximately almost all the business requirements of NxtraData. Upgrading the disks is a challenge that we like the most.

How has it helped my organization?

We started our cloud journey based on this storage solution and upgraded later on to achieve the desired IOPS.

What needs improvement?

Since the world is moving from enterprise storage to the software-defined storage, I believe that they also need to work in the same direction and that it should be hardware independent.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used this solution for more than three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There were no stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

There were no scalability issues.

How is customer service and technical support?

On a scale of 1-10, I would rate the technical support a 7/10.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was pretty straightforward.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Prices are flexible and one should negotiate hard before taking a final call.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated the NetApp solution.

What other advice do I have?

Nowadays, we should look for software-defined storage rather than such OEM dependent products.

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it_user331356 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
Vendor
Our data security is greater and our system works faster, and we're able to manage storage with a user-friendly console.

What is most valuable?

  • Simple management console with ability to manage storage (files, blocks, objects, functionalities) that's user friendly.
  • High-availability and resiliency
  • Data security (RAID system on global level (disks = modules))

How has it helped my organization?

Data security was greater and the system worked faster.

What needs improvement?

There were no areas for improvement a that time.

For how long have I used the solution?

I used it for one and a half years, before I moved companies.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

It's excellent.

Technical Support:

It's excellent.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No

How was the initial setup?

It was very simple with a user guide provided from HP representative.

What about the implementation team?

We used a vendor team.

What other advice do I have?

Just to go for it if you need storage on site. If you need it in the cloud, there are other solutions tor that.

Problem with one of the disks in storage.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user567591 - PeerSpot reviewer
Section Manager at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
The flash disks make our storage system faster.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features are the functions and the flash disks. They make our storage system much faster than previous systems.

How has it helped my organization?

The benefit is that it's one big solution and then we have all of the flash functions.

What needs improvement?

I would you like to see compression included in a future release. That’s what we are missing.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability’s fine.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is extremely fine.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support is very good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We knew we needed to invest in a new solution because of lifecycle management. It was time to lifecycle the product.

How was the initial setup?

I wasn’t directly involved in the initial setup, but I think it was pretty straightforward.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

My organization is a government authority, so we issue requirements and solutions, and the best price wins, when comparing the functions. Any company offering this type of enterprise flash array storage solution in Sweden could have made a bid.

What other advice do I have?

Look at the vendor’s support and the setup; the benefits. HPE is great.

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it_user364536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Specialist VMware/Server with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
Scalability is the most valuable feature for us.

What is most valuable?

Scalability is the most valuable feature for us. It also has a great price point for cutting edge technology.

What needs improvement?

Because we buy so much storage, we have a lot of headroom that we may not use for six-12 months. So what we'd like to see is the booked-capacity piece which has recently been introduced at HP Discovery London.

We'd also want tighter integration between NetApp and HP.

We also had stability issues with older versions.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

It has deployed without issue for us.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We've had no issues with instability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It scales just fine.

How are customer service and technical support?

We get great support with self-logging directly so that HP contacts us for quick fixes. But we get disc failures frequently, although there's no interruption to business because that's the way storage arrays are designed to work.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

At my prior employer, we used EMC and NetApp, which were stable platforms and environments. A lot of it comes down to how you deploy. 3PAR is also a great product, but you can still deploy it incorrectly.

How was the initial setup?

We used HP best practice and we consulted HP. We got it right and it works well for us because of that.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

  • EMC
  • NetApp
  • Whiptail

The storage team tech lead chose HP over these.

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it_user362331 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
With the reporting, we get needed information about how much and where we're consuming storage.

Valuable Features:

The most valuable features are the reporting and replication. With the reporting, we get needed information about how much and where we're consuming storage. Reporting also shows us our replication as we replicate between volumes.

Improvements to My Organization:

It's helped us with data redundancy, which makes our system run more efficiently. Also, the interface is user friendly, but it requires a little training to know all the different functionalities and options.

Room for Improvement:

It could improve in the virtualization of the storage. Also, it needs better reporting on other vendors' technologies, such as VMware.

Deployment Issues:

We don't have problems with deployment.

Stability Issues:

It's stable.

Scalability Issues:

It scales without issues for us.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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