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 has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"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."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"It has good stability for our company."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"The solution is easy to install."
"It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up."
"Very recently, we are able to do a lot of data center automation by being able to script some of the 3PAR actions for our private cloud."
"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 solution is quite stable and scalable."
"In the deployment of virtual servers, I can have a new VM up and running in 15 minutes, run the patches, then done. I routinely fire up base images that I have for my servers: Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. I routinely fire those base images up and do all the updates, then prep them again for cloning. With 3PAR, we definitely have the performance to do that. Those images I do keep on SSD just to have that performance to deploy a new VM."
"We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data."
"It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"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."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"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."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"It is suitable for medium-sized businesses and data centers with less number of users and less important data. It is not really an enterprise-level solution. It needs more capacity. It is also not really stable. It should be more stable. It should also support any server model. It is really weak in this area."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"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."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"The biggest issue we face is parts delivery. There's no local warehouse in Myanmar, so if a customer encounters a technical problem like an IMEI issue, they have to wait a long time for replacement parts."
"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."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
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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