HPE 3PAR StoreServ Reviews

We are using it for the storage for our on-premise servers, which are both Oracle workloads, as well as having many VMs. We have a lot of complex business needs around legacy things.

Our organization has been using 3PAR for about a decade. The performance has been good.

Everything runs smoothly.

The expandability is good. 

HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good.

There are some weird things that we can't figure out.

Stability is good.

Scalability is good.

My team is happy with technical support. However, I have not called them personally.

We had EVAs before, then switched to an earlier generation of 3PAR.

If you can afford it on-premise, and that is the way you want to go, then it is a good solution. 

Overall, it has been a good product, and it is stable.

It's used for allocating disk to many servers.

It has high availability, and it's flexible to tuning for system admin.

• AO
• CLI
• Performance report.

Integrate to monitor with CentOS.

Speed, it is because systems could respond quicker and customers do not have to wait as long as before.

System response time.

Cost, it is still fairly expensive, cost could go down to make this technology more popular in the market.

Three months.

No issues.

No issues.

Fairly good.

No comment, because we requested our local vendor to perform the setup and configuration for us.

Always bargain with your local HPE account manager, the price could go down a lot if you know how to negotiate with them. For example, it could help if you tell them you have another brand of product on hand and it cost less than HPE, then they would likely offer you a huge discount for their product.

Remember, the initial setup only covered the default configuration, you have to know what you need before you know which configuration settings suit you the best.

Hardening is another issue.

All the SSL options, default password, and cipher suite are other issues which we looked at very carefully.

The most valuable features for us are the performance and efficiency. These servers work well even as you add more and more transactions to it.

Our cost savings are significant because it performs much better with greater efficiency. We can now virtualize our environments and bring in all storage into those environments.

The biggest area of improvement would be the cost. It's an expensive solution and the initial cost of ownership is high.

Another area of improvement is the loss in performance when bringing in different types of storage. You can get very high performance when you have all new storage in the same virtualized environment, but if you have legacy storage, the configurations have to be different and the performance will suffer. You end up losing a lot of the efficiency of the whole storage system.

It deploys without any issues.

It's very stable.

We have the option to scale, though we haven't done it yet.

The initial setup was easy.

I still use Dell. We also looked at EMC.