We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The scalability is good."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"From a single panel, I can see the performance of my service, my network, and my storage."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"The technical support is very good."
"Previously, we were using EVA from HPE. When we moved to 3PAR, we noticed a reduction in footprint, reduced by more than 30%. We use the Adaptive Optimization, giving us a reduction in cost and with better performance."
"Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"This solution is resilient."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"The most valuable features are the interface and performance."
"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."
"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."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"The file functionality could be better."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"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."
"Sometimes the required upgrades have been a little bit involved: "You have to do this before you do this," and I want them to explain to me why. It's more work than it should be."
"HP has several integration elements that work with other vendor storage products. I'd like to see a greater expansion on that so that a customer can do a more seamless migration from other vendor products."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"The product is quite expensive."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"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 to see support for high-availability."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"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."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
Earn 20 points
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while VMAX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while VMAX [EOL] 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 VMAX [EOL] writes "Offers seamless data compression and encryption with no impact on performance". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and IBM FlashSystem, whereas VMAX [EOL] is most compared with .
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