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."My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"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."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"I like that it's stable. This is the reason why we're using these products. We work in the broadcast market, and stability is very important. HPE has global services, and that's also important. Dell and HPE are some big companies, and their solutions are robust and stable."
"The deduplication functionality is great. We have seen a lot of benefits in the deduplication ratio. So, it has proven that it is a good cost savings."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"The best feature is its ONTAP product line for Ransomware protection. It also has features for file storage and block storage. The solution is stable. We've had no issues with it. The tool is scalable and meets our requirements. The technical support and the supporting partner are great. The initial setup is straightforward. It is very easy to maintain the product. The feature set is excellent. I recommend the solution."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"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."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"The tool is old."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"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."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"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."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
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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