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."My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"The technical support is very good."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The stability is what we consider to be the best feature it provides. The stability of this solution is what conquers us, every day."
"It is easy to use and understand. It is also very stable."
"The most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence."
"You can scale it out almost indefinitely."
"The tool is fast and easy to use. You can also configure it easily. The product also has good performance tuning."
"We use for our tier one and two apps, so they can do failover, synchronous replication."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use, fully featured and has a great graphical user interface."
"It allows us to cohost as needed. We are able to put more systems on one data storage system and it is still able to deliver the availability and speed that we need it to deliver."
"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."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"The solution is stable."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"The tool has low storage and low performance. This can be solved by adding more disco to the solution. The product’s pricing is also suited for enterprise businesses rather than smaller ones.I would like to see better performance, UI, and compatibility with other products in future releases."
"I would like to see a little bit more integration from a cloud perspective. In this way, I would have some more flexibility to do more with data, how to store it, and where I have it."
"They should add AI-enabled dashboards to the solution."
"We are waiting for compression."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"I would like to see compatibility with NVMe."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. There were a lot of different things that had to happen which was the reason why they had to send out the HPE engineers to help us."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"Needs more SAN support."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
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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