"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"On the Data Domain side, the most attractive feature is the compression ratio, which none of the other products in the market are currently able to provide. On the Unity side, what customers mostly like is the availability guarantee."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with vCenter."
"I like how it separates the iSCSI drives from the standard shares. It has two different routes to it. I know most of the other solutions do this, but I just like the way that Dell EMC does it."
"The high availability of Dell EMC Unity XT has been the most important feature."
"Initial setup is a simple process."
"I have had no problem at all. I think this is one of the most important things. It is very good. Maintaining it and deploying updates require very low maintenance. We haven't had problems. We had to replace a couple of disks in all these years, but it was pretty straightforward."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the unified storage. Also, its capabilities for block-access, file access, and the center box."
"When I have an issue and need technical support, I reach out to them either through chat or by submitting a service request, and the response is good."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use and has good performance."
"HPE 3PAR has all the common storage features like cell provisioning and deduplication. Usually the solution is chosen by the customer as they have a preference, or the setup is already in their environment."
"I like that 3PAR can remake the disk online. That's one of the best features because when we first started, that was the best. The team provisioning feature was also a good one. Those features are the best for me, provisioning and online optimization, and the tier you can have for storage."
"This is a stable solution."
"It works well and we don't have any issues with this solution."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"This product is stable, aside from the performance problems we had."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"The reporting should be better. In other systems, you can create many different kinds of reports but this is not the case with Dell."
"It could go faster. Make it bigger, better, and faster at a lower price, and I am there."
"It could be improved in the area of management flexibility. For example, I really need to set read-only access for LUNs, and there's no such option with Unity XT."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say its capacity and its connection."
"Support Responsiveness & time to fix bugs should be improved."
"The interface and configuration could improve."
"We do a lot of VMware. It only integrates with VMware in one way, which is virtual volumes. I don't really have any visibility on anything else. From VMware, I can't look into Unity. From Unity, I can't look into VMware unless I am using virtual volumes, where they integrate together happily, but we are not using that. I would like better integration for non-virtual volume VMware use."
"I would like it to be a little bit easier to contact support. We can contact support, but we have to go through a phone tree. We get routed to different places. I might call support to say that I need a drive replaced and get transferred to three different groups before I get to the group I actually need."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"The configuration and flexibility should improve."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
"An area of improvement for this solution is an increase in the bandwidth as well as an upgrade of the storage functionality and capabilities. The storage needs to be expandable for future-proofing."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"Scalability and management could be improved."
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Dell EMC Unity XT is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 19 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 39 reviews. Dell EMC Unity XT is rated 8.8, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell EMC Unity XT writes "We can do both block and file storage on one unit without purchasing a separate device". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "Robust and easy to use with a simple setup ". Dell EMC Unity XT is most compared with Dell EMC PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray and IBM FlashSystem, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), IBM FlashSystem and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Dell EMC Unity XT vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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