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."Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The solution is very reliable."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use, fully featured and has a great graphical user interface."
"It has a really powerful tool to measure data, how it is working, the performance, and if we have any bottlenecks."
"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."
"The stability is what we consider to be the best feature it provides. The stability of this solution is what conquers us, every day."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"The solution’s deduplication functionality works great. We are getting about a 16:1 dedupe ratio on our VM workloads."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"The solution fetches quick responses in milliseconds which can be within 40-50 milliseconds."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"You can use different protocols at the same time. Monitoring is also very easy in NetApp FAS Series. There is a free tool for monitoring."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The product is flexible."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"3PAR has StoreOnce and replication. I would like it if they worked together. Or, if I had Nimble and put that either in DR or a primary cohesive management, but still use the cool features of 3PAR, that would be awesome."
"The configuration and flexibility should improve."
"The only drawback on it is that tech support seems really busy. We get a critical notification when an important patch comes out, but sometimes it's a month before we can get this critical piece on because they just don't have time on their schedules to do it sooner."
"Scalability and management could be improved."
"There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered."
"The solution could be improved in regard to space reclamation by adding automation."
"I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL."
"It's still an older architecture, you've got a lot of physical spinning disks. I would imagine more the memory-based computing is coming."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"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."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
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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