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."Very efficient storage"
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"This solution is very scalable."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"You can scale it out almost indefinitely."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"It works well and we don't have any issues with this solution."
"They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes."
"I like the speed capabilities that it provides. The deduplication features definitely have some huge potential. The latest firmware, where they've enabled compression for workloads that aren't very good for deduplication, I can definitely see huge potential there."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"The solution has improved our throughput by helping us keep up with the demand and acquisitions that we have been going through."
"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."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"One of the most valuable features offered is double-parity RAID, which guarantees that your data will stay intact. We're also able to provision storage and monitor which ones are really consuming storage."
"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."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"I would like to see more storage, a better interface, and to move from mechanical disks."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"The WAFL is slow."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
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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