We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"The predictive analytics, where we're getting notifications prior to a failure has been helpful."
"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."
"It's reliable and it's fast."
"The solution fetches quick responses in milliseconds which can be within 40-50 milliseconds."
"The solution is easy to use and very stable."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"Its snapshot capability is the most valuable feature, because replicate our databases from production to nonproduction for development. This allows us to do it very quickly."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"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."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"I would like them to improve it so I can do firmware upgrades without downtime."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"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."
"I would like to see a little bit more integration from a cloud perspective. In this way, I would have some more flexibility to do more with data, how to store it, and where I have it."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"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 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."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
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HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is ranked 30th in All-Flash Storage. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is rated 9.4. 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 Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array writes "Good support, improves performance, scales well, and boosts team efficiency". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is most compared with Pure FlashArray X NVMe.
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