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 stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"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."
"The solution fetches quick responses in milliseconds which can be within 40-50 milliseconds."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"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."
"The deduplication is pretty impressive because it will shrink. We also do some clones in addition to the snapshots, where we can have multiple clones. These reduce the actual written storage by as much as 50 percent."
"It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"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."
"...sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"The WAFL is slow."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"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."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"The product must support more drives."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
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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