HPE 3PAR StoreServ is an enterprise storage that is mainly deployed in enterprise scenarios like banking and insurance.
Head of Engineering at Informatics (Private) Limited
An enterprise storage solution that is deployed in banking and insurance companies, but it stability could be improved
Pros and Cons
- "HPE 3PAR StoreServ is an enterprise storage that is mainly deployed in enterprise scenarios like banking and insurance."
- "The solution’s stability could be improved."
What is most valuable?
What needs improvement?
The solution’s stability could be improved.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ an eight out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Around 20 customers use the solution extensively in their companies.
I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a seven out of ten for scalability.
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How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward if it is a single server. If there are multiple servers, the initial setup becomes complex.
What about the implementation team?
A single server takes an hour to be deployed.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution has two parts: software and hardware, and you need to buy licenses for some features.
What other advice do I have?
One admin is enough to maintain the solution if it is single storage. A complex environment with a heavy workload will need more people to maintain the solution.
I would recommend HPE 3PAR StoreServ to users based on their use cases.
Overall, I rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ a seven out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Integrator

GM-IT at BSE
An easy-to-deploy and scalable storage product with an experienced support team
Pros and Cons
- "The initial setup was very straightforward."
- "The tool is old."
What is our primary use case?
We are using the solution for capacity storage.
What is most valuable?
The initial setup was very straightforward.
What needs improvement?
We are planning to change the storage soon. The tool is old. We are looking for enterprise-grade storage with NVMe capabilities, low latency, and higher responses.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using the solution since 2018.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the product’s stability an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool’s scalability is good. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten. The product is not for users. It is used by an application. We are using 70% of the total capacity of the tool. We are looking to change the solution.
How are customer service and support?
The support team has good capabilities. The team has people with good experience.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
I rate the ease of setup an eight out of ten. The deployment took three to four months.
What about the implementation team?
We have an on-site team. One or two people are required for implementation and deployment.
What other advice do I have?
We choose the solution because HPE is a long-term partner. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Security Officer at Videocon Intelligent Security Private Limited
Reliable with a good user interface and helpful support
Pros and Cons
- "It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
- "This solution is now at end-of-life."
What is our primary use case?
The solution is mostly used for storage.
What is most valuable?
The user interface is very good. It's impressive. I find it very easy to understand.
It offers good scalability.
The stability is very reliable.
There is the possibility of using it in a hybrid way.
It's a very popular product for enterprise storage. It's good for medium to enterprise-level companies.
It's easy to set up the product.
Technical support has been helpful.
What needs improvement?
This solution is now at end-of-life.
We have found the solution to be expensive.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using with the solution for the last six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is very stable and extremely reliable. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable and easily expands.
We have various customers on the solution. They might have thousands of users overall, however, we have four to five clients using the product in general.
How are customer service and support?
We have been satisfied with the level of technical support we get. They are helpful and responsive.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We also use Primera and PowerStore.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is very straightforward and simple. We also use Primera and PowerStore and the setup is pretty much the same for all of those.
How long it takes will be determined by the capacity and the formats. It can take anywhere from six or seven hours up to 24.
We might need two to three staff members to handle deployment and maintenance It depends on the SLA and the organizational structure.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
There is a one-time cost once you purchase the solution. There is no perpetual licensing.
It is an expensive product.
What other advice do I have?
I'm an end-user and handle storage only.
Unfortunately, I cannot recommend the product as it is at end-of-life. However, I would rate it ten out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Head of IT Department at Sonepar
Good performance, proactive monitoring and support , and quick to deploy
Pros and Cons
- "We never had a blackout and we have never been offline."
- "The price of this solution should be lower."
What is our primary use case?
The StorServ is the main storage for our infrastructure. Our ERP system runs on it, as well as 15 other servers including Active Directory, synchronization servers, and more.
What is most valuable?
The performance is very good. This is a full-flash storage device and it is very quick.
HPE monitors each storage device and if there are any problems, such as an issue with a hard drive, the technical support will quickly and proactively contact us to change the part.
What needs improvement?
The price of this solution should be lower.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using our current HPE 3PAR for the past year and a half. For the previous six years, we had an older version of 3PAR storage.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
3PAR is a stable product. We have used the current device and an older version for more than seven years and although we had accidents with nodes and hard drives, it is high-availability storage. We never had a blackout and we have never been offline.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
With respect to the capacity, it is easy to add to. We just have to get more boxes with hard drives. We have quite a small environment so, in terms of scalability, it's okay for us. We have never needed to expand.
There are four of us who administer the 3PAR. I am an IT manager and I have three colleagues in my team.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is tremendous.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have worked with other storage products from Dell, although that was more than ten years ago. The reason that we switched to HPE was the comparison between performance and price.
The 3PAR is high-level storage and at the time, it was cheaper than the competitors.
How was the initial setup?
The implementation was done by our partner and it took less than a day to complete. It was deployed within approximately five hours.
What about the implementation team?
The deployment was completed by a gold HPE partner. They delivered the storage devices in addition to the ESXi servers that we ordered.
Any maintenance that needs to be done, such as updating the firmware on the devices, is the responsibility of our external partner. We don't have experience in this field.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
This product is quite expensive and in addition, we subscribe to 24/7 support with a four-hour response time.
What other advice do I have?
HPE is a vendor that I recommend in general, and especially for storage solutions.
I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Easy to add more storage, reasonably-priced, and reliable
Pros and Cons
- "It is reliable, and it seems like a solid product. It has been working well so far."
- "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."
What is our primary use case?
It is for shared storage for virtual machines running VMware.
What is most valuable?
It is reliable, and it seems like a solid product. It has been working well so far.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for about three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is stable. I didn't have any issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable. You can add storage quite easily.
We have only 10 users. It is a small system.
How are customer service and support?
I never contacted HPE support because I have a selling partner, but we didn't have many issues. So, we rarely needed any support.
How was the initial setup?
Its initial setup was done by our partner, who has previous experience. So, it was relatively easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is reasonable. As compared to other solutions, it doesn't seem to be much different.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I tried to look, but it was more about the products that our IT partner had available than me choosing. They had previous experience with HPE and 3PAR, and they recommended it to us, and we followed their advice.
What other advice do I have?
I can't compare it with other brands because we only have this system.
I would advise having some reference implementation that you can test and see if it's good for your needs. In my case, I would have liked to have the opportunity to test it first to see if it's good for our use case, but I couldn't.
I would rate it an eight out of 10. Performance is the only thing that I would like them to improve.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
GIDC India - Architecture Design and Engineering Leader at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Easy to set up with good auto-tiering, but needs to be more reliable
Pros and Cons
- "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."
- "The solution lacks reliability."
What is most valuable?
It's very similar to most of the other arrays, which are available there.
The auto-tiering is something that we like. The provisioning is quite good.
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. That's the other important aspect of using 3PAR.
The initial setup is simple.
What needs improvement?
The solution should have a smaller footprint. It's large compared to, say, something like Pure Storage, which is a lot smaller.
3PAR is not as fast as Pure Storage. That's something that 3PAR needs to look at.
They need to look at the frequent breakdowns. It's not as lag-free as some of the other HPE Arrays, the enterprise flash arrays. That's something that HPE needs to look at.
The pricing could be lowered.
In the future, I'd like to see it being controlled more from the cloud itself.
The solution lacks reliability. This aspect has gone down in the last few years.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with the solution for many years now. It's been five or more at this point.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Reliability is one area that needs improvement. I cannot afford to have a 4-node storage array suddenly having 2-nodes reboot for no reason. This has never happened on Pure or even on Dell EMC Storage Arrays. However, I've seen that happen on 3PAR on multiple accounts. That's something that HPE needs to work on. They need to work on their codes and make them more reliable. It was reliable to start with, however, somewhere down in the last three or four years, they just slipped.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support has always been quite good. I have no complaints there. They're pretty good, very professional. I'm satisfied with the level of service.
How was the initial setup?
I've been using it for so many years that, for me, the implementation process is quite easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The costs can be lowered. They're a little more expensive, especially on the support side of it. Even with us being that kind of partner, and getting discounted prices, it's still a little expensive.
What other advice do I have?
We use it in our company as well as our customer's companies.
We've used all different versions of 3PAR from the smaller arrays to the newest one, which we have, even their 2400, 2800 versions as well.
StoreServ is good storage, which needs to get implemented alongside other products to allow it to be utilized in the way it's supposed to be - especially in a private cloud environment. Some of the other storage arrays, which came after StoreServ didn't really fully feature. For example, Nimble. We thought Nimble would do that, however, that's not the case. Still, StoreServ is quite well-rounded as storage, which we can still work with on multiple traditional environments plus with the new environments - with cloud and DevOps running the show.
I'd rate the solution at a six out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. partner
Director of Technology Services at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Secure, stable, scalable, and has good support
Pros and Cons
- "The interface could be improved to match the system."
What is our primary use case?
We use it for our financial system.
What needs improvement?
The interface could be improved to match the system.
The initial setup could be simplified.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using HPE 3PAR StoreServ for three years.
We are using a 3PAR 8800.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a stable solution. We haven't had it go down.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's a scalable solution.
How are customer service and technical support?
Our experience with technical support was good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not use any other solution previously.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was complex.
I would suggest that you don't install it on your own, and you get help from an HPE solution provider or an architect to assist you with that.
What about the implementation team?
We had help from an HPE solution provider.
What was our ROI?
You are not spending that money to truly get ROI on the equipment. You are basically trusting that device to keep you safe.
We have had it for three years and we haven't had one hiccup. It was money well spent. The $60,000 was well spent.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We purchased the total package for approximately $60,000. That was purchasing it outright.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We are an HP shop. It was natural for us to go with HPE for the storage solution. When we were looking, there were other solutions out there such as Dell EMC but we opted not to go with them. We decided to stick with an HPE brand solution.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate HPE 3PAR StoreServ and eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
SAN Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Robust and easy to use with a simple setup
Pros and Cons
- "The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
- "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."
What is our primary use case?
Generally, clients use the solution as primary storage or data storage for corporations. They also use it for data replication where they replicate to another site or even on the same site. They're typically replicating the data for a backup situation.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution has greatly assisted data performance as far as a VM-ware environment goes. My data performance is much faster.
What is most valuable?
One of the features that I like the most is the data replication element. The reason I like it is due to the fact that it's pretty clean on replicating data over to a second site.
The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments.
It's easy to make changes without affecting the environment.
The solution is very easy to use.
The product is very robust and offers very good performance.
What needs improvement?
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 migration of data to their platform could be better.
Primarily they don't have a lot. They have several EMC elements that they can migrate data from, however, there are many more controllers out there and it'd be good to see a more seamless integration so that that could occur.
I'd like to see 3PAR have some integration with Cloud services.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for several years. It's been probably around seven years or so. It has definitely been a while.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is pretty decent. The only thing you have to worry about is that you don't overtax the controller. In other words, you don't do that combination of deduping and compression as well as data replication and then also heavily use the controllers where your IO starts, the IO performance. With IOPS and Truepoint, it's important that users do not over-utilize the environment. Then you have performance issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
You have to be careful about exactly what your usage is. You really need to understand what you want to do with the controller. You need to understand what your total IOP performances will be, before you do any sizing so that you can size appropriately, otherwise, as with any storage, you could have an underutilized controller. That would then cause you frustration and business units would suffer as you would have slower performance than what you expected.
A lot of times customers get themselves in trouble due to the fact that they make a purchase or size a controller and then later on they undersized it. Sometimes the under-sizing can occur due to the fact that a company starts putting more demand on the new stores where they want to put one more device on the storage product or connect to it, and that wasn't what it was sized for at the time. If you didn't plan on the growth of the utilization of the controllers the product doesn't look like it's performing properly, however, indeed it is. It's just, not big enough to handle the new user profile that you have put on it.
Microsoft Exchange, VMware, SQL, and Oracle - those are the types of software or devices that are applications that were used within our environment. We have several different departments or groups that get access to that storage.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
There were some older 3PARs that we wanted to replace and there were some Clariion EMC products that we wanted to replace. The reason why was due to the fact that the 3PARs, were four years old and we needed a technology revamp, so to speak.
The other reason we switched was that EMC was just too slow. It was getting overwhelmed and we had to go to a stronger or newer technology controller. Therefore we decided to go with the 3PAR as it was a lot easier to use. We also liked the virtualization of the product and we appreciated the ease of being able to make changes without having an overall effect in the environment.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. It's not too complex. If you have any SAN experiences pretty easy, as you have to understand some of the terminologies so that you can pre-prep the architectural design that you're looking for. Overall, however, it's pretty easy from a GUI perspective. You can do everything from a GUI. You don't need to play at the CLI level. Of course, if you'd like to do that, you can do that as well.
What about the implementation team?
I typically handle implementations for my clients.
What other advice do I have?
I'm a consultant and an HPE partner and I have my hands on several different things in terms of products I use.
Normally I work with all the versions as far as software versions. I've worked with all the different hardware, 3PAR versions as well, and I do a lot of installations.
The big thing and with 3PAR and with any other storage - and this goes for any kind of storage as you're sizing - is to make sure that you are getting the right size environment for what you currently have and what you expect for future growth. Otherwise, you may run into performance issues.
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate it at a nine. We've been quite happy with the solution so far. It's robust and offers very good performance.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner

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