We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and SolidFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"It's actually very stable"
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"I like the speed capabilities that it provides. The deduplication features definitely have some huge potential. The latest firmware, where they've enabled compression for workloads that aren't very good for deduplication, I can definitely see huge potential there."
"It is a rugged, performance system; it is trouble-free and a workhorse."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has a good interface, it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The intelligence around the solution is good."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"We have our backups set up to replicate between two sites, then we also have our storage set up to replicate between two sites."
"Tech support is great, and that is for any of their team who has ever worked with us. They are willing and committed to making sure the customer is treated the way we need to be."
"This product is stable, aside from the performance problems we had."
"I would say in terms of architecture and in terms of functionality, the product is quite good."
"SolidFire is one of the products that does have great APIs right out-of-the-box. It works great. The tools and the other stuff seem to work a little better right out-of-the-box than the ONTAP stuff does, C-Mode."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"If we get complaints about any kind of performance metric issues, whether it's storage related or something on the virtual side, we use it to pinpoint what the actual issue is."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"SolidFire has seamless performance for the nodes and extensions. I also like the tool’s scalability. The product’s performance does not get affected when we scale either up or down. This is not the case with other products."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"We can add a node, we add compute, we add storage, and we've had really good luck with that."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"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."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"...sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has limited flexibility in building replication solutions. There are limitations to the number of IOPS the system can do. It's not bad as it is doing its job. However, for the application, if you need a toolbox, you can build everything concerning periodic replication modes of synchronous or asynchronous three-site, four-site, with supported cascading which requires you to buy an IBM product. It also takes a few hours to one day to upgrade the system and sometimes; it takes more time because, in some HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20000 Storage, you have an eight-node system. If you do an upgrade, you do it node by node and every node might take more than an hour."
"The management console could use some work. All the functionality is there, of course, but it can be hard to find some features or do certain tasks."
"We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. SolidFire report.
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