HPE 3PAR StoreServ Reviews

• Simple management console with ability to manage storage (files, blocks, objects, functionalities) that's user friendly.
• High-availability and resiliency
• Data security (RAID system on global level (disks = modules))

Data security was greater and the system worked faster.

There were no areas for improvement a that time.

I used it for one and a half years, before I moved companies.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It's excellent.

It's excellent.

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It was very simple with a user guide provided from HP representative.

We used a vendor team.

Just to go for it if you need storage on site. If you need it in the cloud, there are other solutions tor that.

Problem with one of the disks in storage.

The most valuable features are having the proper contacts, getting a better price, and becoming certified. For example, our partners get certified because we are the only partner who has the most certifications.

It has helped us work much better.

HPE Mexico takes a lot of time to register and deliver. After we negotiated the final price, HPE releases it and then it takes 48 to 72 hours to deliver it. This is not the best deal.

for the last 4 years

The stability is great for our customers and for us. It's perfect.

The scalability is sufficient. We are expanding our operations now.

I have used technical support and I would give them a rating of 8/10. Their staff just came from university and they are still getting experience.

The initial setup was very complex, because it was our first installation.

We didn't evaluate any other solutions besides HPE.

Of course, you should go for it. We are an HPE shop and we have to focus on that. We have to focus more on the competence and less on the financial considerations.

IOPS, reliability and the value that it adds to our organization are the most valuable features.

Maybe, there is a need to have an easier interface. They could improve the storage platforms.

There are some things that are missing. We had some initial hardware problems that gave us a bad taste. We did, eventually, fix them but it did take a little bit of time to resolve them. These were either hardware issues, disk drive issues or connectivity issues, we just couldn't figure it out.

So far, the scalability is good.

It is very scalable.

The technical support is pretty good.

We were using a different solution previously, we were using EMC. Since we were hitting the ceiling of the hardware, we decided to switch over to HPE. Cost was the main reason why we moved over to HPE.

We looked at other solutions such as HPE and Hitachi.
The most important criteria while selecting a vendor are if it is user-friendly, the support provided and cost.

This is a great product.

The ease-of-use, reliability, and the value I get for the capacity are the most valuable features. All of the deduplication and compression features allow me to buy much less storage to fulfill my business needs. I don't have very many support issues with it.

The benefit to the company is less down time. I can put my time towards other things, such as finding ways to increase performance or doing more proactive tasks.

Support has gone down a little bit in the past few years. It's hard to get the right person initially and sometimes you have to wait for a call back. It was better when it was 3PAR.

Stability is great and it's getting better every year. I have less and less issues as HPE works on the software.

Our newer array is much more scalable than I had in the past. I don't anticipate ever reaching a limit on it.

Overall, technical support is great, other than some problems getting connected with the right person. But once you get to the right technical resources, they are very easy to work with and quickly resolve our issues.

Initially, we were using another HPE DBA product and we were hitting its limits. So this was a great fit for us. We bought it just before HPE acquired it and the solution has been great ever since. This solution replaced a product that wasn't scaling well for us. Now we have a nice, scalable solution.

When we are looking for a vendor, we want somebody who can be a true partner with us and not just somebody trying to sell us something.

I was not involved in the setup of the original 3PARs we have, but I was involved in five subsequent installations. They were straightforward compared to other storage products that I've used, such EMC.

I'm sure they probably looked at EMC, but I wasn't there for the initial sale. For now, we are staying with HPE.

Don’t have any second thoughts and just go with it. It's really a great product and should fulfill most business needs. It is easy to use.

Its ease of administration and reliability are the most valuable features.

It allowed us to put storage in remote facilities without purchasing a complete SAN solution.

There is a need for just cleaning up the administration page a little more and making it a little faster. We'd like to see a little more preemptive alerts for the usage and spikes.

Stability has been great, we haven't had any issues with it. The normal firmware patches come out to keep it up to date.

Scalability has been great. As we have needed to add storage, its just a matter of adding the disk and then, adding them to the bulk.

For the 3PAR the technical support has been great. They've been able to help us with any issues that we've had.

This was a net new solution for our remote facilities so we had nothing in place. This was something that we purchased and built out ourselves.

I was involved in the initial setup and it was very straightforward, specifically for the way that we wanted to configure it. It was the ease of administration, setting up the pool, connecting it to the chassis and then, zoning it to our brocade fabric that made the setup straightforward.

We looked at Dell, EMC and Pure Storage. However, HPE was the only one that provided the flat SAN solution that we wanted for those remote locations.

The important factor while selecting a vendor is the range of products for the solution in terms of the issue that I'm trying to fill. Also, how the vendors support their products and the price are other crucial factors that we look at before selecting a vendor.

Make sure you're looking at everything that's out there and that 3PAR has come a long way.

Manageability and reliability are the most valued features of 3PAR. We've had no issues with it. We did a lot of research before we installed it. The other three companies we looked at were top of the line.

We did not lose connectivity, as we did with the other units. We've had no failed drives. The system has been up and running for almost four years now and there has not been an issue anywhere.

It is very stable.

It is very scalable. We've added quite a bit to it since we started.

We have used technical support. They were great.

The system we had prior to 3PAR had a lot of drives. We didn't lose any data, but it was just not reliable.

I was involved in the initial setup. It was pretty straightforward.

We looked at two other vendors. One was Compellent and one was EMC. Through our research and talking to various companies that were already using 3PAR, it was determined to be the better product.

When selecting a product, reliability and support are the most important requirements.

It's a very reliable product. I would advise them to get it.

There are tools in place that allowed easy migration from our existing infrastructure, i.e., our EVA arrays. We have a great relationship with HPE that has worked over many years. We have great confidence in what they can deliver for us and that it will fit in well with our existing environment.

The availability of the 3PAR array is the greatest benefit. The ability to perform upgrades to the machine while it remains online is very valuable. It saved us from making our systems unavailable. In addition, the tools that are built into the 3PAR array are a significant improvement and give us great visibility into what's actually being used and how it's being used. It has simplified the management of the array.

If you're familiar with 3PAR, there are multiple GUIs that have been available over a course of time and the new SSMC GUI is excellent. It has great consistency against the HPE line, so that an operator is immediately familiar with it. However, there are a few features that were included in the previous GUI that haven't been brought forward, or maybe are not quite as obvious. I would like to see some of those previous resources brought forward, or at least an option to see an emulation of that previous GUI.

We had great availability and stability with our previous HPE arrays and that has continued with 3PAR. We have not had a single incident of downtime nor have we had any service interruptions of any kind.

Scalability seems to be very good. I think it's been one of the strengths of HPE products in the array space for a long time. With 3PAR, the scalability is excellent.

The technical support is very good. The folks that have come in to work with us, particularly on some of our software upgrades on the machine, have been excellent. The field service staff is just superior.

I was involved in the initial setup and it was complex. There is more to it than there was in previous arrays, but I think that really ties into making the machine valuable to us. We probably have to rely on HPE a little more for the setup, but they did such a great job. I understand that it was necessary and I appreciate it.

Our arrays were getting on the older side. The new array fits in with our existing infrastructure very well. We have a great history with HPE support and it wasn't a difficult sell. We did look at other options, but in reality, because of the long-standing great relationship and outstanding support, we went with HPE.

For their own benefit, they really should consider 3PAR. It's so reliable, functional, has great support from HPE, and it is tied into so many of the HPE family of products. It is a great piece of hardware.

Ease of setup and connectivity to our server environment.

We use it for our VND environment. It’s made it easy to make sure we have the highest throughput capable. It has helped with our connectivity to our DL servers. It’s made functionality a lot easier, doing that.

As far as what I do with it, I don't have any additional needs from the system. It is doing exactly what we need it to do. To make it even better, it could be faster.

It is very stable. The only issue that we've had with our 3PAR system was caused by a firmware update and it caused an outage. It was actually a human issue.

It’s very scalable.

Technical support was actually really good. Once we got the right person on the call, then it was actually resolved pretty quick.

We changed to the 3PAR solution to do a direct connect to 3PAR. Before that, we had a VND environment and we were connected to a larger SAN array. We actually had HPE come on-site. They drew up the solution and the architecture that we wanted to do and they actually were able to implement it based upon what our needs were. When selecting a vendor, we look for support, which is one of the biggest things. Other elements are up-time and hardware reliability.

I was involved with initial setup. HPE came on site for the configuration and they were really good.

We have IBM solutions on the docket. We are really big. Our storage team has everything, so we actually brought in 3PAR to get it in-house.

Work with HPE and the sales team. The HPE sales team has been great to work with. They offered a great solution to us.

The speed of the Flash Array is better than what we had with the previous products. We like their blades better than the Cisco Blades. It is easier to manage.

We're using Peer-to-Peer for two data centers and having that fill over instantaneous is what we really needed for disaster recovery.

The thing that we're a little bit bummed about is they're not so quick to get it with the latest version of VMware and we're also using an older version of OneView; so to get to the newer/later releases, it seems like it's a two week process for two different data centers. If they could streamline that process, make it a little quicker, maybe so that the customer can do it, instead of hiring somebody else, then it would be helpful.

So far, we're very stable; we've been using it for a couple of years now.

Its scalability is really good because we're only using a third of the array's storage that we have, so we'll be able to keep that for several more years.

The technical support team is very good. We've gotten a really good response from them.

We needed a faster storage and more capacity, so that's why we upgraded and switched from EMC to HPE.

The setup was pretty straightforward.

We did look at Hitachi and they were a close second to HPE. However, it was just that, we were more familiar with HPE because we already had some of their C-Class Blades.

Manageability is an important criterion while selecting a vendor. Also, for system administrators like myself, it is important to be able to understand the solution right off the bat.

Probably, you should purchase the CS700 all-in-one storage, so that it's easy to implement it that way. Don't try to do it yourself.

Ease of use, cost, and provisioning are the most valuable features.

It's just something that we added because of its price-point, speed and performance.

There is need to have pre-defined setups for your clients so that you know that the configuration at the LS is correct.

Stability is good; we had issues at first, but we have cleared them up.

We haven't tried scaling it, yet. I'm sure it will be fine.

We have had to use technical support, they were very good. It was a little slow at first, but once we got over that, they were good.

We are a large EMC shop and have a lot of EMC products.

The most important criteria while selecting a vendor are the cost and support.

The setup was complex because we were using iSCSI and we don't have a lot of iSCSI at our shop; this made it a little bit more cumbersome for us since we're generally Fiber-attached. This was resolved after we contacted HPE support.

Since we're an EMC shop, we test a lot of stuff.

It's a good product. We like it so far and haven't been unhappy with it.