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."It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Whatever failures you have, there is no single point of failure. So, any failure, you get an alert, you have time, you plan the fix, the replacement, and so on. So your operations are intact."
"The solution has increased our performance by about 40 percent."
"Its snapshot capability is the most valuable feature, because replicate our databases from production to nonproduction for development. This allows us to do it very quickly."
"The scalability is good because it is easy to add in new disks. We just add them on the fly, and they are available for use."
"The command line is very extensive, a lot of tools so in comparison to other vendors. It's one of the great things about 3PAR, that you can really drill down on performance, get statistics, really know how your system is internally performing."
"The Remote Copy Group is amazing for the replication stuff."
"The product has definitely improved throughput. We are able to more efficiently see patients because all of our medical records and practice management software seems to run faster. Uploading images and charts is a lot faster. Recalling information in the exam rooms is faster. The overall throughput of data, going back and forth, is so we can more efficiently see patients, and it also helps increase our patient flow. We can see patients a lot faster, getting them in and out a lot more quickly."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"The support is very good."
"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."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"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 the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"It needs to improve its price."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"I would like to see more flexibility with the cloud. I've actually just been in a presentation about it, here at HPE Discover 2018, so those features are coming."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"Sadly, the support from HPE has not been all that great. It is tough to get a tech out or get a response from some of the techs that we have."
"We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types."
"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."
"The solution could be improved in regard to space reclamation by adding automation."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"They should add new features to the product."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"The WAFL is slow."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 298 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 96 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 ExaGrid EX Series. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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