HPE 3PAR StoreServ Reviews

I think the service during post-implementation, and not just pre-implementation, is the most valuable feature. That's the most important thing for us. When the system is running in production, we need to solve problems very fast.

The benefit is that it doesn't crash.

I would like to see more fast storage and more inside support.

It is very stable.

I would give technical service a rating of 10/10. The service was good.

We knew we needed a new solution because of our growth.

The setup was complex, because the technology is new in Central America.

The price is not too high.

We looked at Dell and Lenovo.

When selecting a vendor, we look for the presence in Central America. They should have offices in Central America.

They should buy it of course.

The main features are good pricing, very good options, and ease of use. From a management point of view, the reports provided by the management console are very good.

We are pretty happy with what we have. One small disappointment was when we invested in an HPE 3PAR 7440c two years ago. We had heard that it was supposed to be a long-term system. Around a year later, when they answered our RFP, it was for an HPE 3PAR 8400c, which was already on the market. The HPE 3PAR 7440c system was a bit old. I would appreciate if they made more of an investment in the “c” series.

We are wondering what we should do for the next purchase, because we want to invest for five years going forward to protect our investment. I know that we have the support for new, huge capacity, so on the technical side, there is no pressure.

I would like to see a bit of improvement from the new managed interface because they have this Windows client which was used in the past. I don't remember the exact name of it, but it worked fine.

The new web-based interface for reports is great for some parts of the monitoring. But for day-to-day usage, it’s not very user-friendly.

This solution has been in production for a year and a half, and we have installed everything on it. It’s 99% stable. We had some crashes, but they were due to technical problems. All companies have these kinds of things happen.

The scalability of this solution is pretty easy. When we did the initial sizing of the solution, I estimated our business needs at the time. Approximately three years ago, the estimate was about 700 TBs in total. We had two sites, so I sized it with all of the documentation and with staff feedback to have it grow in size to 1.5 PBs per site. That comes out to 3 PBs in total.

We have had very extensive growth due to some medical applications we use, such as DNA and image analysis. We are up to 2 PBs for each system. This is our maximum capacity, but it's our problem because we scaled it up too much.

I have used technical support and they are pretty good, responsive, and quick. Many companies outsource technical support and then you have a very process-by-process situation. Overall, the technical support is okay. We've had some problems, but we can survive.

When I arrived two and a half years ago, they were using multiple Windows solutions. They were using NetApp for all of the file services and we decided to separate. We decided to keep NetApp for all these file services, but I suggested that we use FlexArray in order to virtualize our NetApp tool with a disk from HPE 3PAR.

They also had a lot of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). They were customers of Hitachi for 10-15 years. They had multiple systems. My goal was to consolidate everything on those boxes. Currently, we have one storage box per site. There are almost 2 PBs for each site and we have storage arrays to perform the deduplications and backups.

Since I already had experience with storage solutions for almost 15 years with IBM and Hitachi solutions, I did an RFP to find our next provider of a storage solution. I made a request for features. As a public institution, we are primarily focused on price, and the competitive price was one of things I really appreciated about HPE.

I was involved in the initial setup and it was really, really straightforward and easy. Because we are one of the biggest customers of HPE 3PAR solutions in Switzerland, our problem was that the consultants weren’t with us during the installation. The installation was just done by installation wizards.

When we did some auditing, we requested a highly technical guy from HPE to come directly to us. They sent us someone from another city and he did okay, given our large environment. For our environment, installation wizards are not so good. We needed to fine-tune the installation. For basic environments, for perhaps 70-90% of installations, the installation wizard should be okay.

We received four replies on the RFP, and HPE beat them all in terms of price.

You need a good service contract. HPE has a solution called Datacenter Care. If you are a big, critical customer, then you should get this type of contract.

The most valuable features for us are the flexibility and expandability of the platform itself. Also, there are regular updates with the software which bring out new features. The licensing policy is such that it brings us some additional revenue if we ever needed it. It's quite clear what kind of license we're purchasing.

It's simplified our management and increased the speed of our applications. We're able to use different solutions on 3PAR. It's become easier and faster to do.

We'd like to remove some of the barriers to integration with Microsoft. Having the same level of integration with Microsoft as with other applications would be an improvement.

We went with it quite recently.

We are fortunate that they haven't had any incidences yet. It just works.

We are not too big in terms of scalability. But we're quite scalable in case we need to scale, but we haven't had to yet.

They were quite professional and were able to fix some issues that we had before. We also have service contracts with partners, which provides us some assurance in case something happens.

The best feature is how easy it is to use.

We are able to replicate our Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) easily from one 3PAR device to another.

With our old SAN storage, it was either too complicated to do LUN replication or not available at all.

We've used it for three years.

No issues encountered, and we have deployed two F400s, two 7400s, and one 7200.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

8/10.

8/10.

For the most part straightforward. HP had an engineer available onsite for one week to help with setup and any questions that we had.

• RCIP - Its part of our data replication into our DR site
• Flash

I've used it for three years.

No issues encountered.

We haven't seen any issues with this.

Scalability has been fine. No issues.

Good - they provide a nice customer service experience.

Good - they provide a nice customer service experience.

No previous solution was in place be 3PAR.

It's a straightforward setup.

We used a vendor to implement it.

We also evaluated EMC.

It's a very attractive product that is easy to use and deploy. This is due to its user friendly OS and console.

• Wide striping
• Ease of use
• Dedicated ASIC
• Thin Provisioning
• AO and DO
• Adaptive Flash Cache
• Persistent Ports
• Tiered storage
• AFA
• Funcitonality

It enables growth from the existing array due to the thin provisioning suite.

Ease of updating.

I've used it for three years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Excellent.

Good.

We previously used EVA, but as we are an HP house, we migrated to the latest HP offering due to the benefits.

Out of the box deployment is easy.

We implemented it ourselves.

It's an excellent, scalable solution.

We also looked at EMC and PURE.

Do it, you will never look back. We're not currently using 3PAR flash storage, but definitely plan to in the future. 3PAR AFA is the class leader.

We use it for mission-critical apps and database. It runs our core banking applications.

It helps our core applications run very fast. It has increased overall performance by about 60 percent. There is one process which has gone from taking seven hours to taking one hour. It's a key for storage in our organization.

They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes. It's also very solid and reliable in our environment.

We would like to see full virtual. We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR.

The hardware stability is very good.

It's very scalable. For our organization, it's very scalable and at low cost.

Overall, technical support depends, but mission-critical support is a nine out of ten.

We needed the capacity and faster processing.

The initial setup was very easy. It went very quickly.

We used an integrator, HPE Enterprise Support. Our experience with them was very good.

HPE is the preferred solution for our company.

I would recommend 3PAR, especially in the financial industry where data is mission-critical. It's very good.

We use this solution for low latency, high-performance workloads.

This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance.

The most valuable features are Dedupe, Compression, and the simplicity of SSMC (StoreServ Management Console).

We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types.