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."Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"The technical support is very good."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good."
"We deployed 3PAR in the national and international markets. It's not bad, the solution."
"It has improved the ability of the executives to get proper insights."
"All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform."
"You can have SSD drives, fast disk drives, and slower drives, redundancy between drives, and hot-swappable drives on the SSDs, the faster hard drives, and the slower drives."
"The InfoSight feature helps us with troubleshooting problems in our environment."
"The command line is very extensive, a lot of tools so in comparison to other vendors. It's one of the great things about 3PAR, that you can really drill down on performance, get statistics, really know how your system is internally performing."
"The support is really fast. There is very good support for 3PAR storage."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"NAS stability"
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"The solution is not cheap."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"I would like to see the ability to be able to migrate to newer versions of the 3PAR without having to take any of our data offline and be able to upgrade on the fly."
"We have had some bad issues on stability."
"A lot of tasks, you have to manually set up. They need to already have them set up and working. Then, you can just go in and tweak them if you need to."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"The interface to manage it could be improved. I was looking at OneView. Something basic like that should be available with the 3PAR. OneView has all the bells and whistles, all the features, but I think something basic and similar to that should be come with the 3PAR, at least for monitoring managing it."
"Scalability and management could be improved."
"If HPE 3PAR could handle NAS and all things related to NAS, you would not need to have a mixture of different storages, storage boxes, one solution could fit all."
"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."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
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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