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 most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The solution is very reliable."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"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 performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"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."
"Its stability is the most valuable. It has soft alerts. When an alert is raised, we get a call from HP saying that there is this type of alert, and they need to do a remote session to check things. Similarly, for firmware updates, they get in touch to say that a firmware upgrade is required on your storage. They schedule a time and take control remotely to upgrade the firmware. In all such cases, there is no downtime. Everything is done when a full-fledged operation is going on. Its user interface is also quite good. We are quite accustomed to this user interface. We can easily take a look at the current usage or the amount of storage. It is quite easily understandable, and I can present those things to my seniors or other people who are not that tech-savvy, and they can easily understand what we are trying to tell them. We can easily show them that we are using around 87% of the storage, so we need to plan for another tree and things like that."
"We use all the features, but some of the most valuable are the replication, priority optimization, provisioning, and deduplication. There are a lot of good features in this product."
"The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment."
"Their support is the most valuable. The support that we are getting from HP Turkey is very good. This product is better than some of the other products in terms of reliability. It is very reliable."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has a good interface, it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"Fast Snapshots"
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"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."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"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."
"Here in Algeria, we are facing a lot of trouble finding partners and getting support from HPE. There should be better support here in our country."
"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."
"This solution is becoming dated."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"Would like to see some management functions through a web interface."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"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."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"Needs more SAN support."
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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