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"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"It worked flawlessly."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"It is a rugged, performance system; it is trouble-free and a workhorse."
"The solution fetches quick responses in milliseconds which can be within 40-50 milliseconds."
"The tech support is great. If we have a problem, we literally will have boots on the ground with senior sales people, as well as the people to fix the problem, to help make sure we are taken care of."
"The reliability. We're able to replicate our array to our DR site with minimal work. It's just turn it on and we're ready to go. It reduces risk for the business."
"The InfoSight feature helps us with troubleshooting problems in our environment."
"3PAR is easy to keep running and does not require too much effort. It has been very reliable, which is key."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"I really like the new RMC (Recovery Manager Cental) software that was introduced with the 3.0 or 3.1 update. It allows us to use our data protector with our 3PAR and give it a nicer front-end than the SSMC did."
"The solution is stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"It helped us survive power outages in one of our data centers, then continued to function without a hitch."
"We had very good access to technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of its scalability: being able to grow it without having to make sure you get the right disks and the right nodes. The solution is also easy to manage. It's all right there in the vSphere Client. You're not going through multiple things. You don't have to know, once you've created the vSAN node. You add storage, it sees it, and you create your data storage from there. Everything is right there for you."
"It allows us to put our infrastructure in remote locations and still get the same performance we get from our onsite SAN solutions."
"Being hyperconverged, it simplifies what equipment we have to buy."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"A lot of tasks, you have to manually set up. They need to already have them set up and working. Then, you can just go in and tweak them if you need to."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
"I would like to see the reliability improve. While it has been a good product, the QA of the product could be done a little more thoroughly."
"I need flexibility for interoperability across multiple platforms, not just HPE."
"The interface to manage it could be improved. I was looking at OneView. Something basic like that should be available with the 3PAR. OneView has all the bells and whistles, all the features, but I think something basic and similar to that should be come with the 3PAR, at least for monitoring managing it."
"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."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"We want see a better monitoring tool in vSAN. Monitoring is not that great as of now because it shows us false alarms in the Health status. We would like that to be improved."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having better integration with other vendors and the storage is limited, I prefer it to the traditional storage."
"The big thing is pricing, and the rest of it is mostly good. From a scalability point of view, scaling the storage from network or compute should be easier. It is again all around the cost, and it would be good if it was easier to scale your storage separately from your compute."
"vSAN does not have online dedup. When opening the inline dedupe, the performance will be lower than off inline."
"I would like for the next release to be a bit cheaper."
"There are certain shortcomings in the stability of the product where improvements are required."
"Hackers are able to manage to leak information or data from the product using some corrupt files, making it an area of major concern where improvements are required."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
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