HPE 3PAR StoreServ Reviews

• High resiliency with four controllers, no performance impact on single controller failure
• Cage protection
• Performance
• Easy to use and maintain

Failover times.

Yes, we have had a few issues with stability.

No, we haven't had any issues with scalability.

Very good but not perfect.

HPE does the initial setup (hardware and initialization) which makes things much easier. Using 3PAR is simple and straightforward, unlike its competitors such as EMC.

Current licensing model is good. Future users can optimize by buying the best suited model for their needs and future growth plans.

I wasn't part of that effort at the time, so I can't comment.

Go for it, it's a good choice, unless it's too big/expensive for your needs.

• 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.

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

It needs more host ports.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

We have had no stability issues.

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

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

• 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))

Data security was greater and the system worked faster.

There were no areas for improvement a that time.

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

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It's excellent.

It's excellent.

No

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

We used a vendor team.

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.

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

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

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

The stability’s fine.

Scalability is extremely fine.

Technical support is very good.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We don't have problems with deployment.

It's stable.

It scales without issues for us.

• Virtual volume sets
• Hosts sets
• Remote copy
• Snapshots
• Storage tiering
• We currently use SSD for a few databases

Our storage management has been simplified and the performance has improved.

We have a need for a LUNS larger than 16TB but this unit does not support it.

I've used it for two years.

We had HP installers help with the setup and deployment.

We haven't had an issue yet.

Not so far.

Customer service is excellent.

It's excellent.

An EMR upgrade forced us to do a hardware refresh and HP was chosen for several reasons including cost, performance, and ease of use.

It was straightforward as HP did most of the setup.

We a had a team from HP help with the installation and they were great.

We also looked at EMC storage.

I would highly recommend working with HP directly during the installation process. We had the system up and running with production data one week after the equipment arrived.

• ASIC assisted RAID Calculations
• Performance
• Flash

• Incredible performance
• Automation
• Ease of use

• Host Integration
• Support for new platforms

I've used it for four years.

There were some minor issues.

No issues if you plan properly.

No scalability issues at all.

It's the best.

It's the best.

We switched because of the performance and cost of 3PAR was better than our previous solution.

It depends on what aspects you need to configure.

We implemented it in-house.

It was two to three years.

• EMC
• NetApp

My advice would be to do the following:

• Plan it properly
• Implement it
• Check it's working as it should be
• Monitor it regularly

We use the solution for database backups.

I have been using HPE 3PAR StoreServ for more than four years.

The solution is stable.

HPE 3PAR StoreServ is scalable.

We have approximately 15 customers using this solution.

The technical support is very good but it is expensive.

I have used IBM FlashSystems.

We used three engineers from HPE to do the implementation and it took two days.

The price of the solution could be reduced for the license and for support.

I would recommend this solution to others.

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