However, the LeftHand SANs are now seven years old. They don't need a whole lot of performance. I put very low priority VMs on those two LeftHand SANs. Also, have two 4200 LeftHand SANs in the environment. Our engineering solutions are running on FAST class, and then most of our traditional file and print, storage, and workloads are running on Nearline SATA. Then, we have other workloads for our barcode. Our primary ERP system is an Oracle JD Edwards running on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 that is all on SSD. We're currently running two 3PAR 7200 storage units in high availability. I find that is a problem. When we are dealing with support to send somebody over, for example, we make sure to always put the emphasis on, 'Make sure you send somebody who is English-speaking to us.' What do I think about the stability of the solution? We speak Dutch and English, but because we are in the Caribbean, the way the system is set up with HPE in Latin America, a lot of times when we contact support, we get a Spanish-speaking people instead of an English-speaking people. We are in the Caribbean, but we are Sint Maarten. That is a setback when compared to other solutions. If the machine is not under warranty anymore, it's hard to get the driver. Sometimes, you just need a simple driver, because your machine needs to restart and reinstall. Now, you need to have a service contract, or something else, to be able to get the drivers.

You have to do a lot of searching to find it.īefore you could go on the HPE website, and download every driver that you wanted. There is a lot of documentation, but sometimes it is hard to find. I would like the documentation easy to find. It has also significantly improved throughput, so we don't need to worry about performance for any of our platforms. We get our servers up and running quickly and that way we support our environment faster so we can be more agile. The solution has also helped us reduce time to deployment, I would say by at least 30%. Compared with what we had before 3PAR, this has certainly done its job. The storage array absolutely increases performance. We are now able to see a lot more using InfoSight and we have a pretty good idea of exactly what's going on in our storage array.

We deployed InfoSight predictive analytics not too long ago. We don't use All-Flash because the performance of the existing arrays knows the job, but I certainly see where if we are doing data-intensive operations it could assist us. We also have databases, ERP applications, and websites running on it.Īll-Flash also positions our organization for growth. It certainly has its place. We don't need to worry about the platform's ability to manage the workload, so we are pretty happy.

We have been able to scale faster and get our applications out in much less time.

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