Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses.
This solution has allowed for massive performance acceleration of all workloads and massively increased availability (with peer persistence/transparent failover feature).
It allows us to cohost as needed. We are able to put more systems on one data storage system and it is still able to deliver the availability and speed that we need it to deliver.
We have been able to scale faster and get our applications out in much less time. We don't need to worry about the platform's ability to manage the workload, so we are pretty happy.
It has allowed us to set up a fully functioning disaster recovery site with replication, which we have been able to configure between our 3PAR systems.
Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-25T06:38:00Z
Jun 25, 2019
If you can handle the IOPS, throughput is a natural byproduct. Usually, IOPS is where you are capped. HPE has done a great job in making sure that our IOP-intensive EMRs stay up and running. We have really good performance on them.
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.
Network Admin at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-25T06:38:00Z
Jun 25, 2019
The product has definitely improved throughput. We are able to more efficiently see patients because all of our medical records and practice management software seems to run faster. Uploading images and charts is a lot faster. Recalling information in the exam rooms is faster. The overall throughput of data, going back and forth, is so we can more efficiently see patients, and it also helps increase our patient flow. We can see patients a lot faster, getting them in and out a lot more quickly.
In the deployment of virtual servers, I can have a new VM up and running in 15 minutes, run the patches, then done. I routinely fire up base images that I have for my servers: Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. I routinely fire those base images up and do all the updates, then prep them again for cloning. With 3PAR, we definitely have the performance to do that. Those images I do keep on SSD just to have that performance to deploy a new VM.
The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days.
Computer Systems Administrator at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-25T06:38:00Z
Jun 25, 2019
The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated.
We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers.
Tech Director Data Centers with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2018-06-26T08:38:00Z
Jun 26, 2018
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.
So far, we have yet to have a disk fail on either system, other than one I forced to fail when we first got the system in. So the reliability of the 3PAR system has been outstanding.
It has helped a lot for times when our customers do DR testing. Instead of having to spin down and spin up, I can do it live and seamless. I do not have to schedule downtime with an organization.
Project Development Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2018-06-24T08:03:00Z
Jun 24, 2018
Being able to provision drives on demand, as opposed to populating a whole stack of drives and not using them. In the latter scenario, you are locking your money in, you don't get a return on investment. On the fly, you can build up your storage as needed, so that's a very good feature.
Director Technology Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2018-06-24T08:03:00Z
Jun 24, 2018
Valuable features include the intuitiveness of the SAN itself, a lot of the built-in logic and functionality,
the tiering that it uses to determine what type of disk is best for the various types of workloads, and the automation that is built in. It's also easy to manage.
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2018-06-24T08:03:00Z
Jun 24, 2018
I do not have to worry about cross systems talking to each other or multiple systems trying to interact with each other. Our entire vCenter infrastructure is one large stack, which is nice.
Supervisor Infrastructure at Blessing Health System
Real User
2018-06-24T08:03:00Z
Jun 24, 2018
Tech support is great, and that is for any of their team who has ever worked with us. They are willing and committed to making sure the customer is treated the way we need to be.
When we started using 3PAR what we liked was the simplicity of the product. We needed a higher performance storage and, in our support model, we needed to keep the simplicity of the storage architecture, keep it as clean and as manageable as we could.
Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2018-06-20T06:33:00Z
Jun 20, 2018
We went to an Active-Active data center, set it up to where both data centers are separate, but they act as one. We can have workloads at either side at any given time, and it is all based on the Peer Persistence architecture.
We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding.
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2018-06-20T06:33:00Z
Jun 20, 2018
When we bought it, the big sell for us was what they called "wide striping", how they striped the data and could get performance on a cheaper disk. Nowadays, the newer models that are out, which we are going to in the next couple of years, the most valuable feature is mainly being able to achieve such high IOPS in such a small chassis.
What is network-attached storage (NAS)? NAS is a data storage device that connects to a computer network and allows access to data from a central location for authorized network users and multiple network clients.
The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing).
Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients.
Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses.
This solution has allowed for massive performance acceleration of all workloads and massively increased availability (with peer persistence/transparent failover feature).
We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data.
It allows us to cohost as needed. We are able to put more systems on one data storage system and it is still able to deliver the availability and speed that we need it to deliver.
The InfoSight feature helps us with troubleshooting problems in our environment.
We have been able to scale faster and get our applications out in much less time. We don't need to worry about the platform's ability to manage the workload, so we are pretty happy.
The stability is what we consider to be the best feature it provides. The stability of this solution is what conquers us, every day.
It has allowed us to set up a fully functioning disaster recovery site with replication, which we have been able to configure between our 3PAR systems.
It is easy to use and understand. It is also very stable.
The solution has improved our throughput by helping us keep up with the demand and acquisitions that we have been going through.
If you can handle the IOPS, throughput is a natural byproduct. Usually, IOPS is where you are capped. HPE has done a great job in making sure that our IOP-intensive EMRs stay up and running. We have really good performance on them.
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.
The product has definitely improved throughput. We are able to more efficiently see patients because all of our medical records and practice management software seems to run faster. Uploading images and charts is a lot faster. Recalling information in the exam rooms is faster. The overall throughput of data, going back and forth, is so we can more efficiently see patients, and it also helps increase our patient flow. We can see patients a lot faster, getting them in and out a lot more quickly.
The solution has increased our performance by about 40 percent.
In the deployment of virtual servers, I can have a new VM up and running in 15 minutes, run the patches, then done. I routinely fire up base images that I have for my servers: Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. I routinely fire those base images up and do all the updates, then prep them again for cloning. With 3PAR, we definitely have the performance to do that. Those images I do keep on SSD just to have that performance to deploy a new VM.
The solution’s deduplication functionality works great. We are getting about a 16:1 dedupe ratio on our VM workloads.
They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes.
The deduplication functionality is great. We have seen a lot of benefits in the deduplication ratio. So, it has proven that it is a good cost savings.
We have been able to back up our data more frequently now that we have everything on flash. It responds a lot faster, so the IOPs are a lot faster.
The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days.
If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us.
The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated.
We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers.
Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance
The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS.
The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment.
This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance.
Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly.
The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us.
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.
With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance.
So far, we have yet to have a disk fail on either system, other than one I forced to fail when we first got the system in. So the reliability of the 3PAR system has been outstanding.
They are using Ansible to automate the provisioning, so that simplifies the day-to-day operations.
The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues.
We're using the all-flash arrays and, with the deduplication and compression, it just really fits our virtualization environment very well.
The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them.
It has helped a lot for times when our customers do DR testing. Instead of having to spin down and spin up, I can do it live and seamless. I do not have to schedule downtime with an organization.
The predictive analytics, where we're getting notifications prior to a failure has been helpful.
Being able to provision drives on demand, as opposed to populating a whole stack of drives and not using them. In the latter scenario, you are locking your money in, you don't get a return on investment. On the fly, you can build up your storage as needed, so that's a very good feature.
It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily.
Valuable features include the intuitiveness of the SAN itself, a lot of the built-in logic and functionality,
the tiering that it uses to determine what type of disk is best for the various types of workloads, and the automation that is built in. It's also easy to manage.
Our applications are now at least two to four times faster.
The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance.
It has improved the ability of the executives to get proper insights.
It is a rugged, performance system; it is trouble-free and a workhorse.
We have our backups set up to replicate between two sites, then we also have our storage set up to replicate between two sites.
Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day.
I do not have to worry about cross systems talking to each other or multiple systems trying to interact with each other. Our entire vCenter infrastructure is one large stack, which is nice.
I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage.
It has improved uptime, as well as speed to delivery.
We use for our tier one and two apps, so they can do failover, synchronous replication.
After being properly configured, it has been a very stable product.
Tech support is great, and that is for any of their team who has ever worked with us. They are willing and committed to making sure the customer is treated the way we need to be.
3PAR is easy to keep running and does not require too much effort. It has been very reliable, which is key.
HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good.
It was the easiest SAN that I have ever set up.
We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades.
The most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence.
When we started using 3PAR what we liked was the simplicity of the product. We needed a higher performance storage and, in our support model, we needed to keep the simplicity of the storage architecture, keep it as clean and as manageable as we could.
We went to an Active-Active data center, set it up to where both data centers are separate, but they act as one. We can have workloads at either side at any given time, and it is all based on the Peer Persistence architecture.
Multi-tier storage was the primary reason that we bought it. I also love the interface that you use for administering it.
It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up.
We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding.
The chunklet technology is the main benefit out of 3PAR. The way it subdivides. It is using more logic to subdivide the drives into smaller pieces.
Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us.
When we bought it, the big sell for us was what they called "wide striping", how they striped the data and could get performance on a cheaper disk. Nowadays, the newer models that are out, which we are going to in the next couple of years, the most valuable feature is mainly being able to achieve such high IOPS in such a small chassis.
All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform.