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."I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"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."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"It has good stability for our company."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"The technical support is good."
"When we started using 3PAR what we liked was the simplicity of the product. We needed a higher performance storage and, in our support model, we needed to keep the simplicity of the storage architecture, keep it as clean and as manageable as we could."
"The technical support is very good."
"If you can handle the IOPS, throughput is a natural byproduct. Usually, IOPS is where you are capped. HPE has done a great job in making sure that our IOP-intensive EMRs stay up and running. We have really good performance on them."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"You can scale it out almost indefinitely."
"The technical support has been fantastic."
"It offers data compression and people management."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"The price is a little bit high."
"The performance of the solution is not good anymore and the software is different from all the other types and is not compatible. There are more negative things at this moment than positive. This is why we are removing them all from our organization this year."
"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."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"They should add AI-enabled dashboards to the solution."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
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, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and VAST Data. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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