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 is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"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."
"It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment."
"The Call Home feature is really a great feature, so I do not need to monitor the 3PAR. The 3PAR team is monitoring it and letting me know if there are any problems."
"It's reliable and it's fast."
"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."
"The intelligence around the solution is good."
"The support is really fast. There is very good support for 3PAR storage."
"After being properly configured, it has been a very stable product."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"For us, the greatest aspect of the solution is the fact that it just runs. It is amazingly resilient. That's very important to us, because we are basically, with some exceptions, have a 24/7 operation."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"It was not proactive communication."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"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."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"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."
"I would like to be able to deploy and manage 3PAR within OneView Global Dashboard so we do not have to use the interface for 3PAR."
"The first array that they sent us was in some type of a factory mode. We didn't find that out until we loaded a bunch of data onto it, then we had to back it all off. We had to replace the array, which was sort of painful."
"We need additional enhancements to InfoSight, especially from a VM standpoint. Today, we can see in the Azure VM performance stats in 3PAR, but it is so huge, we can't just drill down on each and every VM and look at its performance."
"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."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"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."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
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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