HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs Qumulo comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Qumulo are both solutions in the NAS category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.5, while Qumulo is ranked #11. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 3.4% mindshare in N, compared to Qumulo’s 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Qumulo users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 7, 2024

HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Qumulo compete in the data storage market. Despite HPE 3PAR StoreServ’s lower price, Qumulo often gains favor due to its advanced features.

Features: HPE 3PAR StoreServ offers scalable architecture, effective data deduplication, and reliable support, suiting high-demand environments. Qumulo provides strong data analytics, real-time visibility, and seamless cloud integration. The main distinction is Qumulo’s focus on analytics compared to HPE’s emphasis on scalability.

Room for Improvement: HPE 3PAR StoreServ could enhance its deployment complexity and expand cloud integration options. Some users suggest improvements in user interface design and licensing flexibility. Qumulo can improve its customer support responsiveness, offer more competitive pricing, and enhance robustness in non-standard storage environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qumulo offers seamless cloud integration and responsive support, making deployment straightforward. HPE 3PAR StoreServ, while traditional and complex, is reliable with strong customer service. The choice is between Qumulo’s ease and adaptability versus HPE’s stable service.

Pricing and ROI: HPE 3PAR StoreServ is attractive for its lower initial setup costs and stable long-term ROI. Qumulo’s higher upfront costs are justified by efficiency gains and advanced data features, offering higher ROI for those prioritizing advanced data solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE 3PAR StoreServ

Ranking in NAS

10th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

303

Ranking in other categories

Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) (5th), All-Flash Storage (15th)

Qumulo

Ranking in NAS

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File and Object Storage (21st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the NAS category, the mindshare of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is 3.4%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qumulo is 5.4%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

NAS Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE 3PAR StoreServ	3.4%
Qumulo	5.4%
Other	91.2%

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Featured Reviews

Muhammad Saqib

System Engineer at Hybrid Tech

Uninterrupted upgrades accelerate performance with good support

I would rate the solution eight out of ten. It should be noted that in Pakistan, some parts are not readily available, and we need to import them from Singapore or other countries. We encountered an issue with a customer where the midplane failed and was not available. We had to wait for several days for a replacement, even in a 24/7 support case. Additionally, we faced motherboard failures in the customer's environment, encountering two motherboard failures simultaneously. We obtained one motherboard immediately, yet had to wait ten days for another. These issues should have been resolved promptly given the 24/7 support level.

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VinceVitro

Senior Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Useful data sharing, simple cluster scaling, and excellent support

One aspect of Qumulo that I hoped to see improved was its software upgrade process, which did see significant progress during my usage. Initially, upgrading the software resulted in several minutes of system downtime. However, by the time I departed last summer, the downtime had reduced to mere ten seconds. Although I am unsure if Qumulo has yet achieved a completely outage-free upgrade, I simply performed the upgrades early in the morning before the marketing department began its workday, so any downtime was inconsequential.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"3PAR is different from other storage solutions because it uses a chunklet when we initiate the storage. Every disk is submitted as a 1 GB chunklet. This chunklet can be RAID 1, 4, 5, or 6. This fabulous feature is very useful for me because I can distribute the RAID for any volume. The adaptive optimization is the biggest feature in 3PAR. 3PAR is very usable with thin volume because it detects zeros while writing. Every time I tell the hypervisor to make the full provisioning, it makes the volume as simple provisioning in 3PAR, not full provisioning. Other vendors take this volume as thick provisioning because of which the capacity is reached quickly. It doesn't happen in 3PAR because it detects zeros. It only writes the data, and it doesn't write zeros. There are two processors in 3PAR: the ASIC processor and the main processor. The ASIC processor detects zero writing and doesn't write it, which is a big feature in 3PAR."

"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."

"We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding."

"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."

"The new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly."

"The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days."

"When we bought it, the big sell for us was what they called "wide striping", how they striped the data and could get performance on a cheaper disk. Nowadays, the newer models that are out, which we are going to in the next couple of years, the most valuable feature is mainly being able to achieve such high IOPS in such a small chassis."

"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."

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"The ratio of total operational cost to complexity versus feature set is very good."

"The data protection algorithm to protect the data between the nodes has been the most valuable feature. The integration with backup platforms such as Veeam and Veritas has also been valuable."

"The most valuable features of Qumulo are the ease of management and special permissions that are quick to enable. The overall performance of the solution is good."

"The most valuable feature is real-time analytics."

"The most valuable feature of Qumulo is the ability to share files and reliability."

"The feature that I like most is the analytics part of the file system."

"The most valuable features of Qumulo are its rolling updates and all-day availability."

"It is a very stable product. I never faced any issues."

Cons

"Extending is not a problem, scalability is okay. But once you buy additional box of disks, you have to wait for HPE to contact you with their plan for implementation, for connecting, and it can take several weeks. So, you have the box and you have to wait for several weeks to actually implement it."

"I would like to see compatibility with NVMe."

"The solution could be improved in regard to space reclamation by adding automation."

"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."

"HPE 3PAR StoreServ could have better integration into the cloud and converged infrastructure."

"We would like to see the ability to not only be integrated with hybrid IT, but on-prem."

"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."

"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."

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"The support for iMac and protocols should be improved, not all features are available."

"Some anti-theft permissions do not transfer well to Qumulo."

"In the future, I would like to see non-disruptive updates."

"One aspect of Qumulo that I hoped to see improved was its software upgrade process, which did see significant progress during my usage. Initially, upgrading the software resulted in several minutes of system downtime. However, by the time I departed last summer, the downtime had reduced to mere ten seconds. Although I am unsure if Qumulo has yet achieved a completely outage-free upgrade, I simply performed the upgrades early in the morning before the marketing department began its workday, so any downtime was inconsequential."

"Qumulo should continue to expand automation and orchestration capabilities."

"The solution could improve availability and improve data protection or data services such as compression of deduplication. In a future release, we'd like to have more cloud API integrations."

"The price of the software is a bit expensive, so a reduction in cost would make it more competitive."

"In the next release, I would like to see the ability to have more control at a terminal level of the file system."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We had to go back and purchase iLO licenses and brocade switches for the flex fabric to have a complete solution."

"The solution's price is reasonable."

"Budget wise, 3PAR is a lot of money compared to other solutions, but what is in the 3PAR integration that customers are getting now from the Nimble and InfoSight acquisitions, it is worthwhile."

"It's very reliable and it was cost competitive with other arrays at the time that we purchased it."

"If HPE reduced the price of 3PAR StoreServ they would be more attractive to mid-range companies."

"They have added features, such as the compression and duplication, which have further increased our ROI."

"The tool’s price is higher compared to other products."

"The price of the license depends. Some people expect more from the hardware. Some expect more from the licensing, and that is because you can receive several licenses nowadays, such as the terabyte license. You buy the storage, and you pay extra for the terabyte license for the software. There is a one-time purchase for the license and you pay annually for the maintenance."

More HPE 3PAR StoreServ pricing and cost advice

"The price of the solution is in the middle range compared to others. We look at the price per terabyte."

"The price of Qumulo is reasonable."

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May 1, 2015

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Government

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	72
Midsize Enterprise	74
Large Enterprise	170

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

What's the difference between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE Primera?

HPE Primera has many great features but one of the best is that it is very easy to deploy. From an overall perspective, it is reliable, easy to set up, stable, and offers quality block storage. All...

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What do you like most about HPE 3PAR StoreServ?

The compression features are good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE 3PAR StoreServ?

It is expensive, however, when we compare it to the features provided by HPE, the price-to-performance ratio is very good.

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Also Known As

HPE 3PAR Flash Storage, InServ, Storeserv, 3PAR Flash Storage, HP Enterprise Storage, 3PAR Flash Array, HP 3PAR Flash Storage

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Overview

HPE 3PAR StoreServ is an AI-driven storage solution that prevents issues before they occur by learning and adjusting in real time. The solution offers a tier-1 all-flash foundation for mission-critical workloads. HPE 3PAR StoreServ was designed with more than 3M IOPS and consistent sub-ms latency. It aims to transform midrange and enterprise deployments with solutions that scale from a few TBs to more than 20PBs. In addition, the solution is built to modernize data centers and is made to handle unpredictable workloads effortlessly. By implementing HPE 3PAR StoreServ, you gain automated and rapid provisioning, hardware-accelerated deduplication and compression, and a multi-tenant design.

HPE 3PAR StoreServ Features

HPE 3PAR StoreServ has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Flexibility: With HPE 3PAR StoreServ, you can easily deploy highly configurable, scale-out storage for multi-tenant workloads.

Always-on availability for your data: HPE 3PAR StoreServ includes an always-on resilient storage infrastructure for your hypervisors and applications. In addition, with Peer Persistence, your virtual machines (VMs), hosts, and data can move freely across data centers rather than being constrained by their physical boundaries.

Fast, scalable performance: HPE 3PAR StoreServ enables you to accelerate consistent mixed-workload performance and also provides necessary QoS levels that are optimized for your highest priority applications.

Performance insights: HPE 3PAR StoreServ helps you gain performance insights in real time, and anticipate as well as prevent issues across the infrastructure stack by utilizing cross-stack analytics.

Flash optimized data protection: With tier-1 data services, multi-tenant security, and copy data management, you can avoid downtime.

Seamless data mobility: HPE 3PAR StoreServ makes it possible for you to not only experience converged data protection, but also experience seamless data mobility services, at flash speed, from the edge to the cloud.

HPE 3PAR StoreServ Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing HPE 3PAR StoreServ. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Easy to manage. The web interface to manage the units is a great asset and one that makes managing storage easy.

User-friendly GUI

Exceptionally fast and well-managed replication
Low latency

Hybrid storage gives you the ability to assign different roles to different types of storage arrays inside one enclosure

Both file-level and block-level replication

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the HPE 3PAR StoreServ solution.

A SAN Consultant at a tech services company says, “One of the features that I like the most is the data replication element. The reason I like it is due to the fact that it's pretty clean on replicating data over to a second site. The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments. It's easy to make changes without affecting the environment. The solution is very easy to use. The product is very robust and offers very good performance.”

A Storage Manager at a financial services firm mentions, "There are a lot of screens for easy management where you can change some settings. But after a few years, the important settings were better after an upgrade, and all the vendors have other ways to upgrade their systems."

A Senior IT Infrastructure & Data Center Operation Engineer at Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) comments, “The adaptive optimization is the biggest feature in 3PAR. 3PAR is very usable with thin volume because it detects zeros while writing. Every time I tell the hypervisor to make the full provisioning, it makes the volume as simple provisioning in 3PAR, not full provisioning.”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Qumulo is a data storage and management platform that promotes object-based storage for users, backup archives, and surveillance. Its primary use case is to provide a cost-effective and feature-rich solution for managing large data.

Qumulo's data protection algorithm ensures the safety of node data, while its integration with backup platforms like Veeam and Veritas makes it easy to manage backups. The platform offers a good balance between operational cost and complexity versus feature set, making it an attractive option for businesses of all sizes.

Qumulo

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Just Energy, Latisys, team AG, DreamWorks, BlueShore Financial, Erasmus MC

County of Riverside Sheriff Department, Hyundai Mobis Automotive North America, University of Arizona, UCSD - San Diego Supercomputer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Sinclair Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Kaiser Permanente, Deluxe Creative, Vexcel Imaging, University of Florida, The Madison Square Garden Company, Arizona State University, Cinesite, San Diego Padres Baseball, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine, IHME, EllieMae, Washington State University.

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