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 GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The solution offers good stability."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes."
"Their support is the most valuable. The support that we are getting from HP Turkey is very good. This product is better than some of the other products in terms of reliability. It is very reliable."
"Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us."
"The most valuable feature of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is its storage capabilities."
"The tool is fast and easy to use. You can also configure it easily. The product also has good performance tuning."
"It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"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."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The solution is stable."
"It is very flexible. It integrates well with the public cloud and other components, so everything can be API driven. Therefore, it is very easy to automate it."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"The product is flexible."
"The file functionality could be better."
"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."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"It needs to improve its price."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"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 more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"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."
"Needs more flexibility and expansion, and also relocation, a cloud solution."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"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."
"Extending is not a problem, scalability is okay. But once you buy additional box of disks, you have to wait for HPE to contact you with their plan for implementation, for connecting, and it can take several weeks. So, you have the box and you have to wait for several weeks to actually implement it."
"HP has several integration elements that work with other vendor storage products. I'd like to see a greater expansion on that so that a customer can do a more seamless migration from other vendor products."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"Needs more SAN support."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"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."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
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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