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."Support has been helpful."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"The technical support is very good."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"Very efficient storage"
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"I think the storage is very good, the way it stores, the thin provisioning it provides, and the data protection. And it's easy to deploy in any environment. We are using VMware. So for me, it's a right click and it's deployed. We can configure and create LUNS very easily with 3PAR management, and the interface is very user-friendly. Easily understandable."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"Being able to provision drives on demand, as opposed to populating a whole stack of drives and not using them. In the latter scenario, you are locking your money in, you don't get a return on investment. On the fly, you can build up your storage as needed, so that's a very good feature."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"The Remote Copy Group is amazing for the replication stuff."
"Stability is awesome. Its performance has been steady and it stays up."
"Its snapshot capability is the most valuable feature, because replicate our databases from production to nonproduction for development. This allows us to do it very quickly."
"I like the speed capabilities that it provides. The deduplication features definitely have some huge potential. The latest firmware, where they've enabled compression for workloads that aren't very good for deduplication, I can definitely see huge potential there."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"The product is flexible."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"Fast Snapshots"
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"NAS stability"
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"I give it an eight because of the support, that I can't get support in my country. This is the worst part. Support cannot be sold until we are out of the sanctions."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"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."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"The product must support more drives."
"They should add new features to the product."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
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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