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 noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"Since it's being used to support a virtual infrastructure, that gives us access to all of the benefits of a virtual infrastructure. So, instead of spending hours trying to rebuild or to fix a broken server, we can instead wipe it out and throw up a new one and we're up and running again."
"Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us."
"It was straightforward, simple, and easy to set up, along with the OneView tools, for managing both compute and storage."
"Having moved over from a lefthand, which was seven or eight years old, there's a massive boost in performance. It has definitely improved the speed, the responsiveness, of all our applications."
"The chunklet technology is the main benefit out of 3PAR. The way it subdivides. It is using more logic to subdivide the drives into smaller pieces."
"Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance"
"The solution is quite stable and scalable."
"It's advantageous in terms of the cost, in terms of the performance, and taking up less space."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"Automation could be simplified."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"The hard part with the initial setup was that we were on EMC VNX and trying to get those converted over into the HPE 3PAR, that process took awhile, along with scheduling downtime to get some of the physical stuff migrated over to the new device."
"The interface to manage it could be improved. I was looking at OneView. Something basic like that should be available with the 3PAR. OneView has all the bells and whistles, all the features, but I think something basic and similar to that should be come with the 3PAR, at least for monitoring managing it."
"We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"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."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
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, 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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