We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Zadara 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."Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"The reliability is very good."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"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."
"We use a virtual domain in 3PAR and we can create individual pools where clients are able to manage their own resources, instead of we, as storage admin, getting involved in that."
"We use all the features, but some of the most valuable are the replication, priority optimization, provisioning, and deduplication. There are a lot of good features in this product."
"The solution’s deduplication functionality works great. We are getting about a 16:1 dedupe ratio on our VM workloads."
"We have had it for about two years and had zero problems with it."
"Zadara Storage Cloud having 24/7 management saves me support and engineering costs because the storage and computing are managed by a third-party. We are able to focus more attention on the customer, which is truly our core business. Even at 1:00 AM or 2:00 AM at night, someone will answer, which is important."
"The most valuable feature of Zadara is its ease of use and safety. Overall the solution is a complete package, it has all the features needed."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of deployment options."
"A nice feature is the immutable object storage, which can be used in conjunction with Veeam."
"One of the most useful features is that they provide iSCSI as a service."
"The most valuable features of Zadara are its visibility and simplicity to use."
"It's very easy to expand and compared to other storage systems that we've used, it's a lot more expandable and a lot more flexible in how it's deployed."
"The processing is much faster with this product."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"With 3PAR, there is remote copy software which isn't very good."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"I would like to see compatibility with NVMe."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"The product is quite expensive."
"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."
"If HPE 3PAR could handle NAS and all things related to NAS, you would not need to have a mixture of different storages, storage boxes, one solution could fit all."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"There are still some storage features that they lack. For example, other vendors implemented the auto-tiering feature a long time ago, while Zadara Storage Cloud is just coming out with this feature today. So, they are a little bit late compared to the market."
"I would like to see them be a little bit more proactive in terms of the patches and updates that are available. I would like to see more disclosure and information around what fixes or what enhancements are available within a patch, and help in coordinating and scheduling that. Right now, it's driven more by the customer in reaching out via a support ticket."
"Some of the features are a little bit slow to come to market."
"The management interface is more geared towards end-users rather than a service partner like ourselves, and there are improvements that can be made around that."
"In the next release, there can be some improvements to the web console by adding more features because the console is simple. Additionally, the calculator could improve."
"The initial setup of the solution is complex."
"Having iSCSI over the internet using a VPN, the IPSec tunnel is really the only thing that I find missing from this product."
"Cost-wise, because it's a pay-per-use model, it may ultimately end up costing us more in the long run than something we developed ourselves."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while Zadara is ranked 22nd in All-Flash Storage with 9 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Zadara is rated 8.8. 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 Zadara writes "We're able to scale up or down almost instantly, and changes are handled efficiently by their managed services team ". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Zadara is most compared with MinIO, Amazon S3, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Wasabi and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. Zadara report.
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