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 speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good."
"We have our backups set up to replicate between two sites, then we also have our storage set up to replicate between two sites."
"It is reliable, and it seems like a solid product. It has been working well so far."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"The ease of management is its most valuable feature. It is so much easier to manage storage on a 3PAR array than anything that we have had before."
"It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily."
"The speed is very good."
"After being properly configured, it has been a very stable product."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"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."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"I would like them to improve it so I can do firmware upgrades without downtime."
"We are using a built-in solution in 3PAR. We are using All-Flash Storage, and there are some difficulties with it. HPE has now developed a new tool system to support All-Flash, and that's why we are changing our investment. They must increase its performance. I want unlimited support, which is very important for performance. I am not interested in spinning disks. HPE is developing new storage systems called Primera, but they must be developed more."
"Upgrades on them are a bit tricky. For us to do a head swap on one is a full outer joiner storage frame, which is obviously not that easy to do in a production environment."
"An area of improvement for this solution is an increase in the bandwidth as well as an upgrade of the storage functionality and capabilities. The storage needs to be expandable for future-proofing."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"I would like an easier user interface and setup to help with deployment. There were many areas of the setup where I was like, “Why don't we do it this way?” Therefore, some of the things in the user interface could have been more refined, so you don't have to click in 5000 different places to accomplish one goal. Less clicks means more efficiency."
"The WAFL is slow."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"They should add new features to the product."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"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."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"We have some experience with older equipment end-of-life. For example, when warranty support stops or updates stop – it can be frustrating. Not all clients can buy a new filer every year or two, and NetApp ending support a bit quickly can be a concern."
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 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 VAST Data. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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