We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and NEC D3 series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up."
"We're hosting virtual infrastructure on the 3PAR storage and it's been very good for that."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"We have been able to scale faster and get our applications out in much less time. We don't need to worry about the platform's ability to manage the workload, so we are pretty happy."
"The most valuable feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"The performance is better than with our previous version."
"I would like to see a faster Ethernet connection. Right now, it is 10G. If they could do multiple hundred gigs to speed up the transfer from the array to the servers, that would be good. We are trying to get away from Fibre Channel."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"if it were easier for us to manage the product ourselves without having to get HPE to connect, because it sometimes it does take a bit to get the scheduling worked out with the HPE support. If it were simpler, then it might be easier for us to handle it ourselves."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"I would like to be able to deploy and manage 3PAR within OneView Global Dashboard so we do not have to use the interface for 3PAR."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"HPE could improve by raising awareness when a new product is launched. They must think of ways to better serve and engage with their enterprise customers. HPE is selling enterprise products and mission-critical support."
"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."
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HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 3rd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 299 reviews while NEC D3 series is ranked 21st in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NEC D3 series is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NEC D3 series writes "Stable, performs well, and the technical support is good". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas NEC D3 series is most compared with .
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