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 upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily."
"Technical support for both 3PAR and Dell EMC in my country, Iran, is very difficult because we are under sanctions."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"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."
"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."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"The most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence."
"It's a really stable solution. We have no problems with the customer, no negative feedback from them on this."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"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."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"We have had a few issues with it. We had our virtual environment lock up a few times on storage-based things. We think we have it sorted out, but maybe it came down to a configuration issue on it."
"The only drawback on it is that tech support seems really busy. We get a critical notification when an important patch comes out, but sometimes it's a month before we can get this critical piece on because they just don't have time on their schedules to do it sooner."
"As long as they can keep the solution stable, it will be good. Stability is very important to us."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities."
"3PAR has StoreOnce and replication. I would like it if they worked together. Or, if I had Nimble and put that either in DR or a primary cohesive management, but still use the cool features of 3PAR, that would be awesome."
"I would like them to improve it so I can do firmware upgrades without downtime."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"They should add new features to the product."
"The biggest issue we face is parts delivery. There's no local warehouse in Myanmar, so if a customer encounters a technical problem like an IMEI issue, they have to wait a long time for replacement parts."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 12 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 19 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "Reliable with a good user interface and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". 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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