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 data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"The technical support is very good."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"The solution fetches quick responses in milliseconds which can be within 40-50 milliseconds."
"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."
"It has improved uptime, as well as speed to delivery."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"This product is stable, aside from the performance problems we had."
"I like that it's stable. This is the reason why we're using these products. We work in the broadcast market, and stability is very important. HPE has global services, and that's also important. Dell and HPE are some big companies, and their solutions are robust and stable."
"We never had a blackout and we have never been offline."
"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 replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"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 a faster Ethernet connection. Right now, it is 10G. If they could do multiple hundred gigs to speed up the transfer from the array to the servers, that would be good. We are trying to get away from Fibre Channel."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ could have better integration into the cloud and converged infrastructure."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
"Needs more SAN support."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"The user interface could be improved."
"They should add new features to the product."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 97 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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