3PAR is a great option for EVA customers but don't agree that it was terrible - far from it. There was good reason for it to have over 150,000 of them out there. It was an innovative product when it was introduced 12+ years ago and had many of the same ease of use features that 3PAR has (striping across all drives, no dedicated parity, easy LUN provisioning) - but 3PAR is certainly a better choice now!
I have a couple of things to point you to help:
- Video/podcast I did with analyst from the Taneja group talking about testing they did against a traditional disk array to show that you could double your VM density with HP 3PAR. Related to that, you probably qualify for the Double Your VM density guarantee we have (link is to the blog posts I have talking about it.
- I did the first of a series of ChalkTalks I'll have talking about the special sauce with 3PAR. You can find the first one here.
- I have a ton of other blog posts talking about HP 3PAR that you can check out.
Calvin (@HPStorageGuy)