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."It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"It is a rugged, performance system; it is trouble-free and a workhorse."
"It has improved uptime, as well as speed to delivery."
"It has allowed us to set up a fully functioning disaster recovery site with replication, which we have been able to configure between our 3PAR systems."
"The Call Home feature is really a great feature, so I do not need to monitor the 3PAR. The 3PAR team is monitoring it and letting me know if there are any problems."
"It is reliable, and it seems like a solid product. It has been working well so far."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"The tool is fast and easy to use. You can also configure it easily. The product also has good performance tuning."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"The support is very good."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"NAS stability"
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"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."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The solution could be improved in regard to space reclamation by adding automation."
"I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team."
"Needs more flexibility and expansion, and also relocation, a cloud solution."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 97 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 and NetApp AFF, 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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