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 initial setup was really straight forward."
"This solution is very scalable."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"There are a lot of screens for easy management where you can change some settings. But after a few years, the important settings were better after an upgrade, and all the vendors have other ways to upgrade their systems."
"The most valuable feature for me is the solution's availability."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"Technical support for both 3PAR and Dell EMC in my country, Iran, is very difficult because we are under sanctions."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"For virtualization, the failure rate is much less compared to traditional storage where you need more hard drives"
"All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform."
"Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"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."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"The hard part with the initial setup was that we were on EMC VNX and trying to get those converted over into the HPE 3PAR, that process took awhile, along with scheduling downtime to get some of the physical stuff migrated over to the new device."
"Needs more flexibility and expansion, and also relocation, a cloud solution."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is at its end of life and they are forcing us to purchase new hardware. They will no longer support this solution. They should provide support for a longer time. For example, 10 years instead of five years."
"In the next release, I would like them to make it a little easier to find where everything is in the new console. It now has the OneView look and sometimes I don't think the OneView look is enough. It's too different from the original console that was a separate system."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
"The initial setup was easy. However, we get stuck on preconditions. We were not aware of some of the preconditions."
"I would like to see compatibility with NVMe."
"We had a minor error when we were configuring this system, which initially detracted from its overall stability."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"The product must support more drives."
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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