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."With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We're hosting virtual infrastructure on the 3PAR storage and it's been very good for that."
"It works well and we don't have any issues with this solution."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"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."
"Stability is awesome. Its performance has been steady and it stays up."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance"
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"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."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"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."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"The performance of the solution is not good anymore and the software is different from all the other types and is not compatible. There are more negative things at this moment than positive. This is why we are removing them all from our organization this year."
"I need flexibility for interoperability across multiple platforms, not just HPE."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"We have had some bad issues on stability."
"Would like to see some management functions through a web interface."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Needs more SAN support."
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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