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."The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"Very recently, we are able to do a lot of data center automation by being able to script some of the 3PAR actions for our private cloud."
"There are a lot of screens for easy management where you can change some settings. But after a few years, the important settings were better after an upgrade, and all the vendors have other ways to upgrade their systems."
"We have had it for about two years and had zero problems with it."
"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 feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"The features which are most valuable are the availability of the system and the management."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"NAS stability"
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"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."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"I would like to see a little bit more integration from a cloud perspective. In this way, I would have some more flexibility to do more with data, how to store it, and where I have it."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"The onsite techs have caused outages."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"We need longer names for our volumes. Now it's only 28 characters. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"We have issues with scalability because 3PAR has limited storage capacity, so we have to invest more after a while."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
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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