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."We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"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."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"There's a lot of good features. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is similar to Dell EMC. It is a high-speed system with automatic failover/failback, integrated with Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware. These are the main reason for choosing HPE 3PAR StoreServ in Denmark. We have a very good consulting service together with the product."
"The solution has improved our throughput by helping us keep up with the demand and acquisitions that we have been going through."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing)."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"Good performance because it's an all-flash system. Basically, our applications run faster."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"The solution is stable."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"It is a scalable solution."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
"Integration with some cloud services would be nice... We would like to be able to provision from the 3PAR and decide whether or not we are going to provision onsite or the cloud."
"From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us."
"I would like to see compatibility with NVMe."
"We had a minor error when we were configuring this system, which initially detracted from its overall stability."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"Needs more SAN support."
"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."
"The WAFL is slow."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
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, 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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