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."Technical support is good."
"It has good stability for our company."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The performance is very good."
"Very efficient storage"
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"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."
"Valuable features include the intuitiveness of the SAN itself, a lot of the built-in logic and functionality, the tiering that it uses to determine what type of disk is best for the various types of workloads, and the automation that is built in. It's also easy to manage."
"The new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly."
"It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"The ease of management is its most valuable feature. It is so much easier to manage storage on a 3PAR array than anything that we have had before."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"Fast Snapshots"
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"Automation could be simplified."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"The initial setup was easy. However, we get stuck on preconditions. We were not aware of some of the preconditions."
"The tool has low storage and low performance. This can be solved by adding more disco to the solution. The product’s pricing is also suited for enterprise businesses rather than smaller ones.I would like to see better performance, UI, and compatibility with other products in future releases."
"Needs more flexibility and expansion, and also relocation, a cloud solution."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"It's still an older architecture, you've got a lot of physical spinning disks. I would imagine more the memory-based computing is coming."
"We do not use Memory-Driven Flash in the old 3PAR. Perhaps we will use it in the new 3PAR. That is part of the reason why we are upgrading."
"The WAFL is slow."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"Needs more SAN support."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
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 and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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