We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."The most valuable feature is the speed for the end-user."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replicate. We are running a financial company and it needs to be available 24/7. We can't afford any downtime."
"I find this version to be more budget-friendly compared to products from other vendors. This aspect greatly benefits my customers. It's highly advantageous due to its affordability. The operational aspect is also noteworthy. Additionally, its availability and performance are commendable. The speaker are also equally powerful."
"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."
"The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"We replicate between SAN to SAN for a lot of features and supportability. It also helps us when we want to upgrade to a newer SC Series or move the data from one data center to another."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"It is easy to use and understand. It is also very stable."
"Having moved over from a lefthand, which was seven or eight years old, there's a massive boost in performance. It has definitely improved the speed, the responsiveness, of all our applications."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"The reliability. We're able to replicate our array to our DR site with minimal work. It's just turn it on and we're ready to go. It reduces risk for the business."
"Their support is the most valuable. The support that we are getting from HP Turkey is very good. This product is better than some of the other products in terms of reliability. It is very reliable."
"We built a DR solution based on this, we can sustain our business for any amount of time, 24/7."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"VMAX3 is our main system for storage. All our systems and all our virtualizations are connected to it. In terms of expanding it, we are replacing it with a new system, the PowerMax 2000. So our current VMAX3 platform will be decommissioned soon. We are switching to PowerMax 2000 because we are looking for improved performance. We see it as the best fit for our requirements in terms of the performance and the overall cost."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"The connection should be better integrated with the network to offer a better view of the system."
"Compellent comes in the form of a component that's not true of a unified storage platform."
"While the price is competitive, in the next release it would be better if they could reduce the fees."
"We have seen some degraded throughput with mixed workloads. We have been working with Dell EMC to correct some of these latency issues."
"We can definitely see a need for it being a multi-controller system for customers who want to scale beyond the current capability. That's always a downside. A lot of the new systems are scaling vertically, they scale out, and the Compellent, of course, is controllers with shelves under it, so you don't scale out with it, unless you add another one. But if you do, they don't talk to each other, like some of the other solutions that we sell."
"I would like to see higher compression, dedupe, faster I/O, and bigger drives."
"The lower model, the 3000, should have duplication. It doesn't right now. It's only from 5000 that this is offered, but it depends on the performance. It could be they don't offer it on lower models because the duplication is too much of a burden to the performance."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"The price of this solution should be lower."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"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."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction."
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