What advice do you have for others considering HPE 3PAR StoreServ?

The learning curve is steep, but we are prepared for it. My experience with the software has been positive, and it meets our institutional needs. We have several AI projects underway. One involves automatically collecting grades using robots at our HPE computing center. These robots gather data and collaborate to streamline the process. We also created a 3D model of the archaeological castle, using AI to identify features and detect any defects. We took photos and generated reports for that project to find ruins and other issues. We’re working on protein-protein interaction solutions in chemistry. This allows us to simulate lab experiments at the computing center, saving time and reducing the need for in vitro tests. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

The migration from IBM to HPE 3PAR StoreServ was a bit challenging. Although we had a partner from HPE, they were also new to 3PAR, which led to some difficulties during the migration. We encountered issues such as hardware compatibility, which required us to obtain a special card for the servers and a switch for 3PAR. Additionally, we had to work with Veeam to ensure compatibility, which involved using a beta version of their software. The system was marketed to us as offering very fast snapshots, which was appealing at the time because we needed extensive backup solutions. It also promised smooth transitions between Nearline and Fast Class storage tiers. However, our work environment changed rapidly, and many planned features did not align with our new needs. Space was a significant issue; we frequently needed more storage than anticipated. While the solution was good, its effectiveness depends on the specific requirements and context of the deployment. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We are partners. After we give the inputs to evaluate and ask the commercial to the presales team, they take a lot of time to respond. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.

One admin is enough to maintain the solution if it is single storage. A complex environment with a heavy workload will need more people to maintain the solution. I would recommend HPE 3PAR StoreServ to users based on their use cases. Overall, I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a seven out of ten.

We choose the solution because HPE is a long-term partner. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I would recommend this tool to other users, consumers, or customers. I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Generally, other storage solutions like EMC are used more than HPE 3PAR StoreServ. However, HPE 3PAR is better when we consider the cost of the product, scalability, and stability. I would recommend the solution to others. I would rate the solution a nine on ten.

I'm an end-user and handle storage only. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend the product as it is at end-of-life. However, I would rate it ten out of ten.

We have approximately 100 users that are using this solution. I would recommend this solution to others. I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.

I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ nine out of 10. We use HPE because it's a hardware leader locally. We have a longstanding relationship with HPE, so we trust them more than other providers. But it's a stable product that runs with minimal support.

Recently we had an issue because we added some hard drives to HPE 3PAR StoreServ and we needed to upgrade the VMware to allow support by HPE 3PAR StoreServ hard drives. We were discussing with our IT manager if we were going to stay with this solution or are we going to use another solution for a disaster recovery plan because we need a disaster recovery plan. I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.

We use it in our company as well as our customer's companies. We've used all different versions of 3PAR from the smaller arrays to the newest one, which we have, even their 2400, 2800 versions as well. StoreServ is good storage, which needs to get implemented alongside other products to allow it to be utilized in the way it's supposed to be - especially in a private cloud environment. Some of the other storage arrays, which came after StoreServ didn't really fully feature. For example, Nimble. We thought Nimble would do that, however, that's not the case. Still, StoreServ is quite well-rounded as storage, which we can still work with on multiple traditional environments plus with the new environments - with cloud and DevOps running the show. I'd rate the solution at a six out of ten.

HPE have have made a new system to substitute with 3PAR. It is the HPE Primera solution. It is a product similar to 3PAR, but it's more converged together with the hybrid system. You can implement it on-premise of the cloud. It has cloud connect functionalities and the market is going that way. If you want a solution better than HPE 3PAR StoreServ you will be using Primera. I would advise those wanting to implement this solution to use a partner which has high-scale competencies. They need to be technical experts, both in hardware and software. Customers cannot implement this solution themself. In the beginning, it was allowed for customers to do the installation, but after one or two years, HPE decided that it was not allowed. It is not allowed today. You need a certified person to do the installation and configuration. I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.

I recommend this solution to others. I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten.

I rate 3PAR a nine out of ten. Maybe there are better storage options, but from my experience 3PAR's performance is better than the other storage solutions I have used. The market has other big storage options, but I don't have experience in those. As of now, we are satisfied with this solution and I would recommend it to others.

My advice to those wanting to implement this solution would be to find a good reseller who has expertise in HPE 3PAR StoreServ. I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an eight out of ten.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. I've been pretty happy with its capabilities. I'd recommend the solution to other users and organizations. We don't have plans to leave this solution any time soon. We'll likely have it for the next two to three years.

I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ and eight out of ten.

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.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine.

In general, this product works well. That said, it is not perfect because there is always a difference between what we expect and what is delivered. There has to be a gap. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

The job of direct channel support to HPE 3PAR StoreServ is not an end of life or end of support but HPE Primera has now replaced it and I hope they get all the functionality in there like the HPE 3PAR. I remember it seems like HPE 3PAR and HPE Primera have support for volume plugins and that will be a big game if they can implement volumes on their system because that kind of release is much better than the datastore level.

The product is at end of life so although we'll continue to use it, I wouldn't recommend it. I rate this solution an eight out of 10.

It's a very good system, especially the All-Flash system. That's quite good. The only downside is the price — otherwise, the product is perfect. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of eight.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I'm a consultant and an HPE partner and I have my hands on several different things in terms of products I use. Normally I work with all the versions as far as software versions. I've worked with all the different hardware, 3PAR versions as well, and I do a lot of installations. The big thing and with 3PAR and with any other storage - and this goes for any kind of storage as you're sizing - is to make sure that you are getting the right size environment for what you currently have and what you expect for future growth. Otherwise, you may run into performance issues. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate it at a nine. We've been quite happy with the solution so far. It's robust and offers very good performance.

The most important things are availability, scalability, reliability, stability, and performance. We are service providers, and the customers want availability. You must focus on these things before buying storage. I advise going for All-Flash Storage to all people because spinning disks take too much space and electricity and provide less performance. That's why NVMe is better. I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a seven out of ten.

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.

If you are a new company and you need more capacity, availability, and scalability, you can choose 3PAR. Otherwise, you can choose another storage. When you put 3PAR, you must tell the customers about the usable capacity from the first day, not the row capacity. I would recommend taking the official course from HP for 3PAR before performing any tasks. This is because 3PAR is not easy to manage in your IT environment. You must know everything about storage and how everything is written in the storage. I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an eight out of ten.

3PAR is very much reliable. In these four years, I've not raised a single ticket with HPE regarding 3PAR. I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a nine out of ten. It has good support, good UI, and good reliability.

This is a product that I do not recommend because it is too difficult for people to manage, and it should also be a little bit cheaper. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We are now thinking about transitioning to the HPE Nimble or Primera, although not this year. This may happen in 2022. We plan to continue using this solution for performance, and availability. We are following the recommendation of HPE. They have recently started to mention the Primera and Nimble, which is why we are studying them. We are not looking as much at Nimble because we are interested in the 100% availability that Primera has. The Primera is a little more expensive than the Nimble, so this is something that we have to think about. This is a good solution and I can recommend it. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We're just a customer. We don't have a business relationship with HPE. I'd recommend the product to others. We've only ever had a good experience with it. Overall, I would rate the solution nine out of ten.

I would rate 3PAR a nine out of ten. The stability is the most important.

We're just customers. We don't have a business relationship with HPE. Anyone interested in any solution should probably research the software that comes with their own system a little bit better. If you do that, there's a chance that you might not buy some of the things that we bought and that were defaulted on setup. That was not good. Knowing what works together well will help in the long run. Don't be afraid if a third-party asks you questions. They're probably just trying to get to the bottom of how your setup looks. I'd rate the solution six out of ten overall.

There is a storage replication feature that I think is nice, although we don't use it right now. For us, this product is a very good, full-flash storage. The suitability of this product depends on the organization. It comes down to a combination of the performance and the price. I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

The setup is pretty straightforward but HP only allows their engineers to do the setup. This gives us peace of mind for the setup.

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.

We are happy with what we have in place. You should consider getting this solution if you are in the process of acquiring or switching. I would suggest giving this a good look. The biggest lesson we have learned from using the solution is the stability. This is what I always tell people. The stability is what surprises us. It's a stable solution. In terms of growth, we are planning on going from 35 terabytes to around 50 terabytes in the six months. We will probably keep using 3PAR but we may change to something better. We are here at HPE Discover 2019 looking for other solutions. If we cannot find something better we will continue using the same technology, the 3PAR. I would rate 3PAR at eight out of ten because we love the stability but sometimes we still lack upgrades for the solution.

It's not necessarily about the price. The price is certainly an important factor, but what the solution does and how it supports you is even more important than price. Our biggest lesson was that we need to do our homework and make sure that we're going with a vendor that can support us in the long term. I would probably rate this as eight and a half out of ten. It does what it's supposed to and does that very well, even if there are areas to improve on. More integration with cloud would be great. But what it does, it does very well.

Using this solution has increased our system performance. We will continue to use HP products in the future, and this is a solution that is worth investing in. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

It's a great product. Their support is great. We even have the ability to have loaner products provided to us as an option. We can have the products come inside and test and use them before we make our final decision. That helps with the analysis and recommendation process, so it's been a great partnership with HPE. We haven't really had any significant issues. So other than that it's able to provide what we need and that the customer service is great, we haven't learned any big lessons from using it. We don't use too much deduplication, but from what we've seen so far, it seems to execute what we need it to execute. Once we get this issue that we've had recently resolved then I would say it's a ten out of ten. We haven't had any real issues with it.

This product has met our expectations. Once we got past the minor configuration issues, it's been smooth sailing, so I'm very happy with it. It is important to understand the terminology upfront because it helps prepare to do the actual implementation. I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

It is a great solution. There are others out there, but we have always been using 3PAR. We are pretty happy with it. We are using the GreenLake Flex Capacity offering. At first, the service was great, because we had a configuration that was meeting our needs. However, when the issue came with Spectre, and then the L1TF vulnerability came out, those really affected us, so hopefully we will find a solution that meets our needs going forward. That is what we are looking at now. We just started getting into InfoSight predictive analytics. It is something that I want to explore more, and something that I want to get going. I can say that, "All-flash is the way that the future will be."

From my experience in the past with other storage solutions, it is very easy to use with pretty good support. So far, from what I have seen, I do like it. It is a real good solution. It is probably one of the better storage solutions for large enterprises and main back-end storage that I have used in the past. We do the InfoSight predictive analytics. We have just gotten into it with the 3PAR storage, as we have mainly used it on the Nimble side. We actually don't use the deduplication right now. That is something that we have looked into, but haven't implemented yet.

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

Look at both the 3PAR and Nimble, then see which one is best for your needs. They are both reliable systems which work great. They just run. We have had 3PAR for a while. So, it has reduced time to deployment by about 10 percent, which is the same as our older platform.

Look at HPE's roadmap for 3PAR, SimpliVity, and Nimble. Do your research, then pick the right one that works for you with the future that you envision. I'm highly interested in using InfoSight going forward. One of the things that I have always tried to do is get to where I had just one dashboard for everything from managing from the desktop up to my Internet perimeter security. I want to look more at Aruba Networks and Cloud services to see how that might be able to help me integrate my WatchGuard perimeter security. I'm looking at Commvault and switching to Commvault for my backups, because eventually I just want one dashboard that shows me everything: servers, storage, switches, access points, and security perimeter points. That is the platform that can get me there. That's one of the reasons why I'm at the conference is to check out HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity. Biggest lesson learnt: Don't be absent during the design phase.

The performance is great.

Spend your time doing the research on the product and learn the system. So far, it has been pretty reliable. It has been a set it and forget it type product, which has been great, except for when there are some minor issues. However, the issues that we have had were resolved fairly quickly. We are flash and standard disk combo, or hybrid. Having flash though does not mean that we have faster performance. What it does helps us with is being able to see more patients, because we're not having to wait as long for applications to load or waiting for the data to get sent to where it needs to be. Biggest lesson learnt: Why didn't we do it a long time ago?

The biggest lesson that I learned from using 3PAR is the snapshot capability.

Check out HPE. They are well worth it. It pretty much checks all the boxes that I have concerns about moving forward. This version will do dedupe better. We will start to use some of the data classifications where it tiers the storage for us. Of all the bubbles that I care about, it checks them all. We don't use dedupe on our old 3PAR. We're hoping to use it on the new one. We don't use InfoSight at the moment. It's something we're looking into, though. I'm very happy with it. It has performed as I expected.

I don't really know the other products out there, but I love this product. We are not running SSDs drive yet. When we move to SSDs, I think it will be much faster. We are not yet using the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity offering. Biggest lesson learnt: if you have a good product, you have less maintenance.

I would definitely recommend it. It is a good fit for our organization, and if it works for you, that would be great too. File Persona is now included, so we might explore doing file shares straight off of the 3PAR array. We do not use HPE GreenLake. Biggest lesson learnt: The initial pain is worth it.

It is a solid product. It works really well for our situation and what we need at a disaster recovery site. It is fairly simple to set up. We do not use InfoSight.

We like it so much that we are in the process of evaluating our next three to five year roadmap. We are planning to reinvest in the next generation of the systems. Everything can always get better, but I’ve been very happy with it. I have not been called in during the middle of the night because of it. It is the right solution for the right people. Biggest lesson learnt: You get what you pay for.

Definitely look at 3PAR. It is worth it. We do use the Memory-Drive Flash. We don't have any problems with latency anymore that we had eons ago. However, I can't really tell you from a technical perspective if it was from implementing 3PAR or something else. We do not use InfoSight predictive analytics yet, but I would like to. The biggest lesson learned is 3PAR is good, and I want it for future. Let us find a way how to do it. It was a giant leap in technology at the time that we purchased it, and I would like to do the same next time, which will be very close. While I wouldn't say not to buy a 3PAR again, we will need a new technology that will do the giant leap forward again. We need a big step once every few years instead of doing granular steps every year.

The solution’s deduplication functionality is alright.

Check the performance and every technical aspect that you can, as much as you can. Don't trust anyone else telling you otherwise. Test everything yourself. The biggest lesson I've learned from using this solution is that having centralized storage is the right way to go and that sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected. What every IT guy will tell you is that we disable the dedupe, mostly because of the hit on the performance. Regarding InfoSight predictive analytics, we tried to use it. It was not that predictive because it doesn't give as much information as we were told. We had actually turned it on and we had a few critical issues but we got no alerts from InfoSight regarding them. It increased performance for a while, but then, as we grew, and we did not grow significantly, performance dropped down. For a few of our critical, online systems, we went back to using the physical disks and not the centralized storage. It was supposed to improve throughput but it was not enough, not as much as we were told before we bought the product. We have talked about using the flex-capacity offering, HPE GreenLake, but we haven't used it yet. From our experience, I would rate low, but I don't want to rate it low because from a technical perspective, it's a stable solution, it works. I would give the product a seven out of ten, even though our experience has not been that good. A seven is fair at this point.

3PAR provides high performance and HPE's service is good. In terms of HPE GreenLake, we have just introduced this service to our client. We expect it will help with our client's capacity management efforts, but for now we have just presented and explained the service.

Never go with your first impression regarding 3PAR. They say that hybrid is the best thing anytime, but if you read the small print, it depends on how you use it, etc. So, we went with an all-flash for that reason. So, don't go with your first feeling. Investigate and try it out. Try to get a demo to make sure it works. I like that the solution's availability gives me: * Ease of use * Performance * Good support from HPE.

The All-flash has better performance, which means that our applications are faster. Our performance has increased by twenty to thirty percent. The biggest lesson that I learned from this solution is to try something before you reject it. My advice for anybody considering this solution is to test all of the functions that the vendor tells you about. It is important to see how it works in order to see whether it suits your business. This is a good solution, but it is not perfect. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.