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HPE 3PAR StoreServ

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What is HPE 3PAR StoreServ?

HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a flash storage option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

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HPE 3PAR at a Glance

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 24, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage unit is our primary storage platform for our enterprise. We have two units, an HPE 7200, and an HPE 8200. The 8200 has a mix of Sata and SSD dri...
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Shawn Karr
Engineer - Information Technology
IT Infrastructure Engineer
Advanced Pharmacy
HPE 3PAR StoreServ4 years of experience

HPE 3PAR Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 15, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It was used for one of our business units to support applications with <20 k IOPS.
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Engineer
HPE 3PAR StoreServ3 years of experience

Fast, easy to manage, and will make you look incredible!

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 13, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use HPE 3PAR storage enclosures (with integrated controller) at two locations; The primary location is our corporate datacenter headquarters where the 3PAR acts as the prim...
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Jane Updegraff
Administrator - Information Technology
Senior Systems Administrator
DRT Holdings, Inc.
HPE 3PAR StoreServ3 years of experience

Hardware Top, Software Flop

Rating: 3 out of 10
May 16, 2019
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We have two 3PAR StoreServ 7200c devices running all flash. This is our main storage for the entire company. We wanted to get rid of IBM's expensive disk licenses and in the s...
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Mario Jost
Technician - Information Technology
System Engineer
Mercedes Benz Automobil AG
HPE 3PAR StoreServ4 years of experience

It does its job but is lacking on many fronts

Rating: 2 out of 10
April 26, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are currently using the HPE 3PAR for as our disk storage for our entire organization's data. Its good in that instead of having a large number of physical servers, we can u...
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Andrew Bouwhuis
Consultant - Legal
Network System Administrator
LANprofessionals
HPE 3PAR StoreServ4 years of experience

High IOPS. Amazing Compaction Ratio, and Minimal Administration Needs

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 10, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are transforming legacy systems for a big academic client. We are using HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8200 as the storage layer. Our Tier 1 HPE 3PAR StoreServ is all SSD and Tier 2 is...
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Amanda Decker
Professional - Information Technology
Development Coordinator, Advancement Services
University of Southern California
HPE 3PAR StoreServ2 years of experience

HP 3PAR StoreServ 8200

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 17, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We were setting up a whole new ERP for an academic client. We required a storage that provides us both file based storage for less demanding storage needs and block storage fo...
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Ravinder Gupta
Consultant - Information Technology
Senior Oracle Database Administrator
CGI
HPE 3PAR StoreServ3 years of experience

HP 3PAR StoreServ Flash storage - High performance storage that won't break the bank

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 11, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We have been using HP 3PAR StoreServ Flash storage as our primary Data Base server storage within Central IT. All Virtual machine and data base files associated with any of ou...
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Employee
HPE 3PAR StoreServ4 years of experience
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HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a flash storage option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

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The most common users of HPE 3PAR StoreServ are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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The HPE 3PAR StoreServ storage solution has been successfully utilized in various use cases, proving its versatility and effectiveness. One notable example is the implementation of a new ERP system for an academic client. Users were able to leverage the HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8200 as the storage layer, providing both file-based and block storage options to cater to different storage needs, such as applications and database volumes. With the dedupe feature, users have been able to significantly reduce their overall estimated storage footprint. In addition, the mix of SATA and SSD drives in the HPE 8200 unit has offered affordability and tiered storage options, ensuring smooth performance for PRD SQL databases without disk latency concerns.

Another valuable use case involved using two units of the HPE 3PAR StoreServ - the HPE 7200 and HPE 8200 - as the primary storage platform for an enterprise. This configuration allowed for efficient management of the organization's data while providing high-performance storage solutions. The replication feature of the HPE 3PAR ensured effective disaster recovery by replicating data within approximately 15 minutes of 'live'. Additionally, the all-flash array configuration of the HP 3PAR served as the primary storage for database servers within Central IT, supporting virtual machines and database files.

Overall, customers have found the HPE 3PAR StoreServ to be a reliable and versatile storage solution, meeting their diverse needs for data storage, application performance, and disaster recovery.

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HPE 3PAR at a Glance

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 24, 2020
SK
Shawn Karr
IT Infrastructure Engineer
Advanced Pharmacy (Pharmaceuticals, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE 3PAR StoreServ
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage unit is our primary storage platform for our enterprise. We have two units, an HPE 7200, and an HPE 8200. The 8200 has a mix of Sata and SSD drives, which allows us the affordability of tiered storage. The SSD drives allow us to run our PRD SQL databases with no worries about disk latency.
Pros and Cons
  • Ease of Management. The Web Interface to manage the units is a great asset and one that makes managing storage easy.
  • The acquisition of Nimble allowed HPE to leverage InfoSite. InfoSite has the ability to use predictive analytics to not only alert us on issues but help resolve issues prior to them hitting an enterprise.
Likelihood to Recommend
HPE 3PAR is a medium to high-end SAN, which makes it a little costly. It is a definite advantage if it can be leveraged in high IOP scenarios, and even in DR scenarios where storage replication can be used to assist with disaster recovery. The unit is less appropriate to smaller shops where costs are prohibitive to business needs.

HPE 3PAR Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 15, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE 3PAR StoreServ
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It was used for one of our business units to support applications with <20 k IOPS.
Pros and Cons
  • It has a very user friendly GUI.
  • Easy to manage (create volume/provision luns/adding host/host sets).
Likelihood to Recommend
It has very friendly user interface. We used it to support applications which required <20 K iops and were not very intense.

Fast, easy to manage, and will make you look incredible!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 13, 2019
JU
Jane Updegraff
Senior Systems Administrator
DRT Holdings, Inc. (Aviation & Aerospace, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE 3PAR StoreServ
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use HPE 3PAR storage enclosures (with integrated controller) at two locations; The primary location is our corporate datacenter headquarters where the 3PAR acts as the primary data repository for the data produced by our most important, business-critical application, our ERP system, which is called Infor BaaN IV. The second 3PAR enclosure (with integrated controller) is located in a co-lo that is far enough away from our HQ datacenter that it provides for disaster recovery. So that 3PAR acts as the "failover" location. HPE's 3PAR replication is so effective that we keep our ERP data replicated to within about 15 minutes of "live". Therefore, we would be able to run our ERP directly from the co-lo, in a "live" failover capacity, if our HQ datacenter were destroyed or became otherwise unreachable.
Pros and Cons
  • Replication - HPE 3PAR offers exceptionally fast and well-managed replication with little latency and that's why we bought it to store and protect our most important ERP data. We wanted identical performance and connectivity for our primary storage and our failover (DR) storage and so we bought two of them.
  • Hybrid storage is right up HPE's alley. You can assign different roles to different types of storage arrays inside one enclosure, for instance, you can store your data that needs super high availability and fast IOPS on an all-flash volume but on the same shelf you can have a platter array for longer-term and less- time-critical data. This saves a lot of money on the front end because you don't have to buy all-flash. Why go all-flash for that data where you aren't going to need it?
  • 3PARs can do both file-level and block-level replication which is nice.
  • The data compression/compaction is really very good.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want all-flash or hybrid flash/platter enclosures that can be very fast, very easy to provision and at the same time be very versatile with regard to how you retain your data (i.e. for different data types and access needs) then this is the right product for you. The competition does just about as well with compaction/size reduction but the reporting is better and the IOPS are blazing. The thing runs like a scalded ape!

Hardware Top, Software Flop

Rating: 3 out of 10
May 16, 2019
MJ
Mario Jost
System Engineer
Mercedes Benz Automobil AG (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE 3PAR StoreServ
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have two 3PAR StoreServ 7200c devices running all flash. This is our main storage for the entire company. We wanted to get rid of IBM's expensive disk licenses and in the same step moved from harddisks to solid state disks. We wanted a storage system that supported Veeam as a backup solution as well.
Pros and Cons
  • Great performance (I/O).
  • Support for Veeam Backup.
  • Automated storage snapshots.
  • Inline Dedup.
Likelihood to Recommend
This product is aimed at performance, but not manageability. So if you wanna have a storage system that just delivers performance, but you don't want to have too much interaction with once it is set up, this is the perfect product. But if you emphasize integrability with existing products and a modern, easy to use interface, you should maybe look somewhere else,

It does its job but is lacking on many fronts

Rating: 2 out of 10
Incentivized
April 26, 2019
AB
Andrew Bouwhuis
Network System Administrator
LANprofessionals (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE 3PAR StoreServ
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are currently using the HPE 3PAR for as our disk storage for our entire organization's data. Its good in that instead of having a large number of physical servers, we can utilize its function to allow for a number of virtual servers that are easier to manage.
Pros and Cons
  • It seems to integrate well with VMware.
  • We never seem to have slow I/O, which is good.
  • Its has HP monitoring it and they let us know when things go wrong.
Likelihood to Recommend
I guess it's well suited in an older environment, but really I don't think I would use it in any environment.

High IOPS. Amazing Compaction Ratio, and Minimal Administration Needs

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 10, 2019
AD
Amanda Decker
Development Coordinator, Advancement Services
University of Southern California (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE 3PAR StoreServ
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are transforming legacy systems for a big academic client. We are using HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8200 as the storage layer. Our Tier 1 HPE 3PAR StoreServ is all SSD and Tier 2 is a mix of SSD and Near Line (HDD). We are using it for both file and block level storages. File level storage is used by our applications while block level is used by our database volumes.
Pros and Cons
  • HPE 3PAR StoreServ provides an amazing compaction ratio. Some of our storage volumes have compaction ratio of 25:1. This is amazing If you choose to turn on the dedup feature as we did—you can easily see a reduced storage footprint of 80% or more.
  • This product comes with a lightweight yet powerful GUI interface called SSMC (StoreServ Management Console). The console is very handy to configure and monitor your storage volumes. It can be used by non-storage teams like DBA , Network and System Admins to monitor storage performance when a performance issue is reported to the technical team on the whole.
Likelihood to Recommend
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a great storage device for both file and block-level storage needs. You can use it in place of SAN devices required by database servers. It provides an amazing compaction ratio and, hence, reduces overall storage footprint and cost. This is, however, slightly costly if your environment doesn't really see high transactions most of the time.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 8200

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 17, 2018
RG
Ravinder Gupta
Senior Oracle Database Administrator
CGI (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE 3PAR StoreServ
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We were setting up a whole new ERP for an academic client. We required a storage that provides us both file based storage for less demanding storage needs and block storage for more demanding needs like database and virtual desktops. We have been able to achieve that along with reducing our overall estimated storage footprint by making use of dedupe feature of HP 3PAR.
Pros and Cons
  • We are using HP 3PAR storeServ 8200 for both our file level and block level storage.
  • I really love the amazing compaction ratio provided by HP 3PAR. Some of our disks have compaction ratio above 25:1, which is super amazing. You can definitely look for around 75% reduction of storage footprints.
  • It has a great user friendly web console "SSMC"(StoreServ Management Console). This is an additional bonus and can be used by even non-storage people like DBA and Network to take a look at storage performance.
Likelihood to Recommend
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a great solution where both file level and block level storage is required. It will be recommended to use all flash SSD storage although cheaper near line storage can also be used for light application with less IOPS. I would not recommend HP 3PAR StoreServ if you are looking for a low budget storage solution.

HP 3PAR StoreServ Flash storage - High performance storage that won't break the bank

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 11, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE 3PAR StoreServ
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have been using HP 3PAR StoreServ Flash storage as our primary Data Base server storage within Central IT. All Virtual machine and data base files associated with any of our data bases (production) our stored on the HP 3PAR StoreServ Flash storage. We have the array configured as an all-Flash array (no tiering is used).
Pros and Cons
  • It provides above the level of I/O that we need in order for our data bases to perform as needed. We have never hit a plateau as far as I/O is concerned.
  • The 3PAR is very easy to setup, use and manage. Both the GUI and the CLI are very intuitive and allow you to manage the storage your way.
  • The 3PAR packs a lot of storage space and performance into a much smaller footprint than our previous storage solution. The 3PAR uses aboout 1/3 of 1 Rack, while our old solution used 2 full rack spaces.
Likelihood to Recommend
The 3PAR flash storage is perfect for use cases that need high I/O and low latency (like data bases or even VDI). The flexibility of the system allows you quickly to allocate or expand storage. I would not recommend it for use in archival storage (too expensive) or for systems that have very low I/O requirements.
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