Richard Siemers wrote:
As someone currently managing some Hitachi arrays, my jaw dropped seeing one recommended here. This is either vendor shenanigans or someone who doesn't have to manage one day to day. 3PAR is hands down superior for ease of use and performance.
As someone how has managed a LOT of Hitcahi, EMC, Netapp, IBM, HP and various other arrays
I won't argue the 3PAR is easy to use and fast (our 8400s push around 14GB/s all day long)... it's just not what I'd catagorize as "enterprise class".
The software inside the arrays is appalingly buggy (even gives the early days of EVA a run for its money), nearly every patch release has fixes for "unexpected node restarts", de-dupe is still broken.
HPE will not allow us to enable de-dupe even after 18+ months of arrays crashes we had, they tell us they have no safe harbour code version for us to go to yet.
To me the 3PAR is a nice easy to use and fast mid-range array, just so long as you don't try to use any of the fancy bells and whistles the marketing team have enabled before engineering has got them working