HPE 3PAR StoreServ Reviews

The most valuable features for us are the flexibility and expandability of the platform itself. Also, there are regular updates with the software which bring out new features. The licensing policy is such that it brings us some additional revenue if we ever needed it. It's quite clear what kind of license we're purchasing.

It's simplified our management and increased the speed of our applications. We're able to use different solutions on 3PAR. It's become easier and faster to do.

We'd like to remove some of the barriers to integration with Microsoft. Having the same level of integration with Microsoft as with other applications would be an improvement.

We went with it quite recently.

We are fortunate that they haven't had any incidences yet. It just works.

We are not too big in terms of scalability. But we're quite scalable in case we need to scale, but we haven't had to yet.

They were quite professional and were able to fix some issues that we had before. We also have service contracts with partners, which provides us some assurance in case something happens.

• RCIP - Its part of our data replication into our DR site
• Flash

I've used it for three years.

No issues encountered.

We haven't seen any issues with this.

Scalability has been fine. No issues.

Good - they provide a nice customer service experience.

Good - they provide a nice customer service experience.

No previous solution was in place be 3PAR.

It's a straightforward setup.

We used a vendor to implement it.

We also evaluated EMC.

It's a very attractive product that is easy to use and deploy. This is due to its user friendly OS and console.

It is used in data centers. We are using HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8400.

It is easy to set up, easy to use, and user-friendly. It is easier to work with HPE 3PAR than with Hitachi. Its technical support is also good.

It is suitable for medium-sized businesses and data centers with less number of users and less important data. It is not really an enterprise-level solution. It needs more capacity.

It is also not really stable. It should be more stable. It should also support any server model. It is really weak in this area.

I have been working with this solution for three years. 

It is not really stable. It should be more stable.

Its scalability is good, but it needs a bigger capacity for an enterprise data center. We have around 1,000 users.

Their technical support is really good. HP is the best in terms of technical support.

The initial setup is easy. It is easier to install than Hitachi. You need two or three people for its deployment.

I would recommend Hitachi over this solution. We plan to keep using this solution because it is useful for one or two of our projects.

I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a seven out of ten.

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

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

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.

The thin and deduplication technologies are quite effective. The replicate, peer persistence, port persistence, and the recovery managers work really well.

• Always online
• Easy to service
• Easy to manage
• Really provides powerful advanced management and troubleshooting

Customer facing management should be easier and simpler for those who do not work with it too often.

We have been using this solution for over five years.

It has been very stable.

There were no scalability issues. The scale-up in the architecture works really nicely and there are no disruptions. This is also the case with the firmware and software updates.

In terms of technical support, this is where HPE has a problem. The support is cumbersome and most of their staff speak with a poor English accent. Some of the support staff works in privacy mode, which means they might do something that the customer is not secure about, and this causes uncertainty.

We were using an end-of-life, old product before. It couldn’t keep up with new technologies.

The initial setup was fairly easy, but you have to understand it well if best practices are to be gained.

The system just went to an all-inclusive license model.

We evaluated some of the EMC products and NetApp was being looked at.

I usually say look at the weak points in a system. 3PAR is great since it does most of what is boasts about in a good and mostly satisfying level. So the weak points in this system are quite high compared to a lot of other solutions. They tend to get good technology integration into the product, even though it sometimes takes a while. For instance, compression only came out now in the latest OS version.

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

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.

It has deployed without issue for us.

We've had no issues with instability.

It scales just fine.

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.

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.

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

• EMC
• NetApp
• Whiptail

The storage team tech lead chose HP over these.

This is an amazing solution, it's been very good for all our projects. 

We use the old disk and we can't make a VMO in HPE 3PAR without getting an upgrade. We activated a new disk but it failed, it's hard to manipulate and format it. The disk might be okay but when we put it in the storage array, it failed.

I've been using this solution for seven years. 

This is a stable solution. 

This is an older solution so if you're replacing, buy the new products like Primera and Nimble.

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

The solution is very stable. HPE is always stable.

The scalability has always been great because of one idea from HPE: no need for us to pay from the beginning for the full machine. We can purchase based on the budget of our company. This makes it scalable. It's great.

Technical support for both 3PAR and Dell EMC in my country, Iran, is very difficult because we are under sanctions. We can get it through other countries.

The initial setup was straightforward. 

Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses. But for simple activities with Dell EMC, we need a license. Also, HPE is simpler than Dell EMC for the end-user.

I would recommend this product for sure.

At a minimum, I would rate this product at eight out of ten. I give it an eight because of the support, that I can't get support in my country. This is the worst part. Support cannot be sold until we are out of the sanctions. It's not anything to do with HPE, it's political issues.