TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of Universität Münster is based on an April 2019 survey of HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:

• Addressed the following issues with HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:
  • Performance issues and errors that were requiring too much time to be spent on administrative tasks (OPEX)
  • Issues with not being able to do much with virtual environments
  • High risks related to unplanned (stability and reliability issues) or planned (upgrades) downtime
  • Transparency

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage that the surveyed organization uses:

• Consolidating the following workloads or applications on their HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage system:
  • Development and testing
  • VDI
  • Unstructured data aka NAS
• Deployed the following solutions in conjunction with their HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:
  • VMware
  • Citrix
  • Windows Storage Sever
• Chose HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage over other vendors, like Dell EMC or Netapp, because:
  • HPE 3PAR offers superior performance, improved reliability, and is easier to use than competitive solutions
  • HPE 3PAR fits seamlessly into HPE’s end-to-end total solution of servers, networking, and storage for simplified infrastructure vs. storage only vendors offering point solutions

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:

• Rates the value of the following HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage capabilities:
  • High performance: valuable
  • High stability: valuable
  • Ability to scale: valuable
  • Consolidated storage management: valuable
  • Reduced footprint (higher capacity density than legacy systems with traditional disk drives): valuable
  • Capacity reclamation (deduplication & compression): very valuable
  • Application-level data snapshotting: valuable
  • Integrated data protection: valuable
  • Advanced optimization: very valuable
  • Disaster avoidance with advanced replication and application transparent failover: very valuable
• Reduced the time to perform administrative tasks with HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:
• Improved the following since using HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage: