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 management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"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 has helped with more than just serving data, but also with recovery."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"It's pretty stable and scalable. I think we've only had a couple of issues, three disk outages in six years."
"We went to an Active-Active data center, set it up to where both data centers are separate, but they act as one. We can have workloads at either side at any given time, and it is all based on the Peer Persistence architecture."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"We built a DR solution based on this, we can sustain our business for any amount of time, 24/7."
"Scalability is incredible. We have a single server cabinet today, but we can grow it to as many cabinets as we need."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The tool needs improvement in the utilization report at the granular level."
"I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"The initial setup was easy. However, we get stuck on preconditions. We were not aware of some of the preconditions."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
"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."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"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."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
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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