We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and HPE 3PAR StoreServ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"Very efficient storage"
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"It simplifies storage."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use this frame. I am a SAN administrator, but I was able to train my colleague, who had only been a VMware administrator, on the PowerStore in about half a day. Now he's autonomous in assigning volumes and creating data stores..."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"It is a stable solution."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"The most valuable feature of the solution for me is the deduplication part, especially since most of the servers in our organization are Windows-based servers."
"The compression is excellent."
"PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes."
"Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use."
"It has a really powerful tool to measure data, how it is working, the performance, and if we have any bottlenecks."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario."
"The new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly."
"All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform."
"It is easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy to configure."
"The command line is very extensive, a lot of tools so in comparison to other vendors. It's one of the great things about 3PAR, that you can really drill down on performance, get statistics, really know how your system is internally performing."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"Dell PowerStore is a good solution overall, but some models could support hypervisors better by allowing for more customization and flexibility for customer needs."
"The price is on the higher side."
"It needs more mature code."
"I have not seen anything specific. The only thing I can think of that needs improvement is the price."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"We are looking for the Dell PowerStore to become more mature to maximize our use cases."
"After the smooth launch of the product in our company, only the areas around upgrades are a bit problematic. In our organization, we face difficulties when updating the product."
"There were a few goofy things with support where we were trying to do OS upgrades and HPE MyRoom failed. However, they would not get on WebEx because they are only allowed to get on HPE MyRoom."
"The interface could be improved to match the system."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"The performance of the solution is not good anymore and the software is different from all the other types and is not compatible. There are more negative things at this moment than positive. This is why we are removing them all from our organization this year."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"The price of this solution should be lower."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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