HPE 3PAR StoreServ pros and cons

We deployed 3PAR in the national and international markets. It's not bad, the solution.

Very recently, we are able to do a lot of data center automation by being able to script some of the 3PAR actions for our private cloud.

There's a lot of good features. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is similar to Dell EMC. It is a high-speed system with automatic failover/failback, integrated with Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware. These are the main reason for choosing HPE 3PAR StoreServ in Denmark. We have a very good consulting service together with the product.

We're hosting virtual infrastructure on the 3PAR storage and it's been very good for 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.

We never had a blackout and we have never been offline.

The technical support is good.

The solution is easy to install.

It is reliable, and it seems like a solid product. It has been working well so far.

It's a very popular product for enterprise storage.

With 3PAR, there is remote copy software which isn't very good.

The solution lacks reliability.

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

The product is quite expensive.

The GUI interface could be improved. I have been having trouble with one issue in particular. If you look at the DC and DR, if there is a communication break and the link went down—so the data is not replicating from DC to DR—there is no way to find out how much data is ready for transmission. Only the size of the data that needs to be transferred after the link comes up. If the firewall link is down, there is no way of seeing how much data is waiting to be transferred. This is a weak point of 3PAR.

The price of this solution should be lower.

The performance of the solution is not good anymore and the software is different from all the other types and is not compatible. There are more negative things at this moment than positive. This is why we are removing them all from our organization this year.

While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon.

The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected.

This solution is now at end-of-life.