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."Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has a good interface, it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario."
"It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"You can scale it out almost indefinitely."
"The most valuable feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"We built a DR solution based on this, we can sustain our business for any amount of time, 24/7."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"We went to an Active-Active data center, set it up to where both data centers are separate, but they act as one. We can have workloads at either side at any given time, and it is all based on the Peer Persistence architecture."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"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."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"It needs to improve its price."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"The cloud-based monitoring Infosight would be better if users are automatically enrolled in the cloud/group based on the configuration or information gathered or uploaded on the internet."
"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."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"We need longer names for our volumes. Now it's only 28 characters. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters."
"Its price is a bit high for adding another tree."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"The user interface could be improved."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"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."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"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 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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