We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support has been amazing."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"This solution has allowed for massive performance acceleration of all workloads and massively increased availability (with peer persistence/transparent failover feature)."
"Whatever failures you have, there is no single point of failure. So, any failure, you get an alert, you have time, you plan the fix, the replacement, and so on. So your operations are intact."
"The support is really fast. There is very good support for 3PAR storage."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses."
"The predictive analytics, where we're getting notifications prior to a failure has been helpful."
"It is easy to manage and performs very well."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"One of the most valuable features offered is double-parity RAID, which guarantees that your data will stay intact. We're also able to provision storage and monitor which ones are really consuming storage."
"The product is flexible."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"I need flexibility for interoperability across multiple platforms, not just HPE."
"The management console could use some work. All the functionality is there, of course, but it can be hard to find some features or do certain tasks."
"An area of improvement for this solution is an increase in the bandwidth as well as an upgrade of the storage functionality and capabilities. The storage needs to be expandable for future-proofing."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"We are waiting for compression."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 98 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and VAST Data. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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