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 performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"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."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"I am impressed with the product's online upgrades."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"It is reliable, and it seems like a solid product. It has been working well so far."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"The reliability. We're able to replicate our array to our DR site with minimal work. It's just turn it on and we're ready to go. It reduces risk for the business."
"It all works in concert using Recovery Manager Central (RMC). HPE coordinates it all, so it is more of a solution instead of products trying to do things together."
"When we bought it, the big sell for us was what they called "wide striping", how they striped the data and could get performance on a cheaper disk. Nowadays, the newer models that are out, which we are going to in the next couple of years, the most valuable feature is mainly being able to achieve such high IOPS in such a small chassis."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"The product is flexible."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"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 need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"HP has several integration elements that work with other vendor storage products. I'd like to see a greater expansion on that so that a customer can do a more seamless migration from other vendor products."
"We have had a few issues with it. We had our virtual environment lock up a few times on storage-based things. We think we have it sorted out, but maybe it came down to a configuration issue on it."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"Needs more flexibility and expansion, and also relocation, a cloud solution."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"We have had some bad issues on stability."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"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."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
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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