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HPE 3PAR StoreServ is a flash storage option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
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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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October 13, 2019
Fast, easy to manage, and will make you look incredible!
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.
- 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.
- HPE 3PAR enclosures are expensive, especially if you want to go all-flash.
- I don't much care for the management tool, but I have to admit that provisioning is super easy, as is monitoring.
- Thanks to 3PAR enclosures, we now have a disaster recovery solution that is both more affordable than the hyper-converged solution we had considered for our HQ and DR col-lo and with a whole lot better replication speed and less latency overall. I can't quantify a saved expense for Disaster recovery because it hasn't happened yet, but I would guess that just having a good solid DR solution powered by HPE 3PAR could easily save us millions per day in the event of a disaster. We would be able to keep working even if we lost our primary datacenter.
- The 3PARS have eliminated the need for more overly complicated NetApp enclosures with their clunky GUI and requirements for what can only be described as arcane knowledge. We've saved hours and hours of engineer's time by using the easy-to-provision and easy-to-manage 3PARS, and pulling storage reports is a total snap. I'd guess we save about 10 hours per month in engineering time.
- NetApp FAS series, NetApp All Flash FAS, NetApp SnapMirror and NetApp ONTAP System Manager (formerly OnCommand)
We still use NetApp storage enclosures at each plant for our routine file shares (CIFS) but I would love to swap them out for the HPE 3PARs as we use for our ERP app data. The 3PARS are simply faster and much better at near-instant replication. But even more importantly we can get the reporting that we need from the 3PAR within a few minutes, even custom reports. 3PARs are much easier to manage than NetApps in general and I think that the only place that they compete is in compaction.
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.
- 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.
- The SSD volumes are fast and we haven't seen much high disk activities in our Tier 1 storage. However, Tier 2 storage which also uses nearline HDD often sees high disk activity. We were told that replacing it with SSD will fix the issue since the high demand is coming from our system and HPE 3PAR StoreServ can't do anything about it.
- You can't really set up many of the threshold alerts manually from SSMC such as CPU overheating, block disk corruptions. We were told that this is handled by the system processor automatically and sends alerts as minor and major alerts. But we wanted to configure it custom to our environment.
- HPE 3PAR StoreServ was easy to configure. We contracted storage experts for initial setup and our in house technical team was able to take over the work with little training. This requires minimal day to day monitoring and hence reduces maintenance cost.
- The time to Go Live was fast and hence that as well helped us save time and money.
We also considered NetApp All-Flash FAS since it works on similar technology and provides comparable throughput. However, we were offered better deal from HPE as we are existing customers for HPE, hence we chose HPE 3PAR StoreServ.
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Product Features were definitely the key but we chose HPE 3PAR StoreServ over NetApp All FAS because of our existing relationship with the vendor which got us good discount and hence reduced overall cost.
We are quite happy with the product, so I wouldn't really change anything in the evaluation process but I would like to get all my technical team members who will be using the product in future included in all the meetings and sessions. They asked us specific questions about the product later which we would have preferred HPE to answer :)
September 17, 2018
HP 3PAR StoreServ 8200
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.
- 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.
- I was trying to look for what kind of threshold monitoring I can do using the web console for hour HP 3PAR. Though it covers most of the essential threshold alert settings, I was looking for things like CPU overheating, block corruptions. I was told these can not be monitored directly through SSMC but are thrown as minor and major alerts automatically by the system processor.
- Native reporting features in 3PAR are just fine, but they can be more user friendly and can be made to be more representative.
- We were facing high disk IOPS and increased service time, due to few overloaded disks. We had to dig this ourselves but it would have been nice if HP 3PAR could have provided some automated recommendations to improve performance.
- The all flash HP 3PAR StoreServ provides great IOPS bandwidth. It depends on how many disks you have, for my environment of 8 disks with 6 TB each SSD, it allows upto 80,000 IOPS.
- HP 3PAR StoreServ has native offsite replication capability and onsite snapshot copy features. These features allow faster recovery.
- HP 3PAR StoreServ comes with inbuilt High Availability at controller nodes level and internal disk redundancy. This allows sustaining disk failures or controller node failure without immediately causing downtime.
- The deduplication feature, when turned on, provides a compaction ratio up to 25:1 times and hence helps reducing overall storage footprint, as HP claims, up to 95 % times.
NetApp does not have RDMA capabilities in CIFS (SMB) and NFS protocols. Also, NetApp All Flash FAS has no direct storage attachment available. Most configurations require additional switches for data access.
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HP 3PAR StoreServ Flash Storage is Administered directly by a team of 12 people and is used by applications and monitoring infrastructure which has roughly 5000 end users. Although, most of these users never login to 3PAR directly but they are impacted directly if there is any performance impact on 3PAR StoreServ storage.
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We have 4 Storage experts who are responsible for configuring 3PAR StoreServ, Carving out virtual volumes, configure volume replication, export volumes to host sets, work with HP for firmware upgrades. Besides, we have another set of 8 people who provide tier 1 support and are responsible for monitoring 3PAR StoreServ performance and investigate any alerts before reaching out to Tier 2 support.
- We use them for data stores for VMWare infrastructure containing 10 ESXi hosts.
- We are using the 3PAR StoreServ Flash Virtual Volumes for Oracle ASM disks to host Oracle Databases.
- We are also using 3PAR StoreServ production virtual volumes and replicating them to non-production virtual volumes for disaster recovery.
- We use 3PAR StoreServ storage snapshots for quick recovery from volume failures.
- We are using StoreServ for both file level and block level storage with no additional configuration required.
- We are using local Storage Snapshots as BCV (Business Continuity Volumes).
- We have a big existing Mainframes and PeopleSoft infrastructure. We are planning to upgrade the technology stack and 3PAR StoreServ Flash Storage would be our choice for storage layer.
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I believe Product Reputation was the most important factor why we chose 3PAR StoreServ Flash Storage. We didn't had any prior experience with this product. Besides the HP sales team, presentation was a key factor, we also heard of this product from our storage experts and based on those recommendations we decided to purchase HP 3PAR StoreServ Flash Storage (All SSDs).
The SSD volumes are little on the expensive side but we get amazing deduplication compaction which compensates for it. Hence, we would like to stick to the product until we come across something more exciting in future.
September 11, 2018
HP 3PAR StoreServ Flash storage - High performance storage that won't break the bank
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).
- 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.
- The system requires a physical or virtual system to manage upgrades and patches and for call home features. Most other systems have this integrated into the array. Just another piece of infrastructure to manage.
- There are some system jobs that come pre-scheduled in the initial setup, but there is at least 1 job that should be added to this by default. When you delete storage, you also need to run a job to compact the CPG (a group where the luns all reside) to reclaim the previously used storage as free. This should be done by default at least monthly in the background.
- There are 2 different GUI front ends that can still be used. The older version (3 PAR management console) is being phased out (has been for 3 years).
- Our data bases are performing at very high levels and can now support the few times a year when we have very high demand.
- The system is very easy to use and has saved us up to 10 hours per week compared to our old system.
- With the smaller footprint we are consuming less electricity and using less cooling to provide more storage that is faster than our old solution.
The 3PAR is faster, easier to use, takes up less space and is much easier to expand than a VMAX system. We compared the 3PAR head to head against XtremIO and Compellent and chose the 3PAR for its combination of performance, features and price (Compellent was cheaper, but did not have some of the features we needed at the time - they do now).