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 deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"It was the easiest SAN that I have ever set up."
"It has helped with more than just serving data, but also with recovery."
"It's reliable and it's fast."
"It has improved uptime, as well as speed to delivery."
"We use for our tier one and two apps, so they can do failover, synchronous replication."
"After being properly configured, it has been a very stable product."
"I do not have to worry about cross systems talking to each other or multiple systems trying to interact with each other. Our entire vCenter infrastructure is one large stack, which is nice."
"The support is really fast. There is very good support for 3PAR storage."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"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."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"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."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Automation could be simplified."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"Although we experienced malfunctions where a virus was running and it failed."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"The hard part with the initial setup was that we were on EMC VNX and trying to get those converted over into the HPE 3PAR, that process took awhile, along with scheduling downtime to get some of the physical stuff migrated over to the new device."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"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."
"Would like to see some management functions through a web interface."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
"There were a few goofy things with support where we were trying to do OS upgrades and HPE MyRoom failed. However, they would not get on WebEx because they are only allowed to get on HPE MyRoom."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
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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