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."It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"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."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"It's reliable and it's fast."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"It works well and we don't have any issues with this solution."
"The deduplication functionality is great. We have seen a lot of benefits in the deduplication ratio. So, it has proven that it is a good cost savings."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has a good interface, it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"It runs. I don't have a problem with it. If it needs an update, I can do it in the middle of the day with nobody being the wiser. It is phenomenal in that respect. As a hospital, I get two hours every quarter to reboot things, so it is imperative that nothing goes down."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"NAS stability"
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"I would like to see the reliability improve. While it has been a good product, the QA of the product could be done a little more thoroughly."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
"We are waiting for compression."
"I would like to see more storage, a better interface, and to move from mechanical disks."
"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."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"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."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
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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