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 most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"We use a virtual domain in 3PAR and we can create individual pools where clients are able to manage their own resources, instead of we, as storage admin, getting involved in that."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"Previously, we were using EVA from HPE. When we moved to 3PAR, we noticed a reduction in footprint, reduced by more than 30%. We use the Adaptive Optimization, giving us a reduction in cost and with better performance."
"It has allowed us to set up a fully functioning disaster recovery site with replication, which we have been able to configure between our 3PAR systems."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"It offers data compression and people management."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"They should add AI-enabled dashboards to the solution."
"From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"The first array that they sent us was in some type of a factory mode. We didn't find that out until we loaded a bunch of data onto it, then we had to back it all off. We had to replace the array, which was sort of painful."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"We have some experience with older equipment end-of-life. For example, when warranty support stops or updates stop – it can be frustrating. Not all clients can buy a new filer every year or two, and NetApp ending support a bit quickly can be a concern."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"They should add new features to the product."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
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 IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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