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 amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"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."
"It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"Our applications are now at least two to four times faster."
"The technical support has been fantastic."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"It's reliable and it's fast."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"For us, the greatest aspect of the solution is the fact that it just runs. It is amazingly resilient. That's very important to us, because we are basically, with some exceptions, have a 24/7 operation."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"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."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"The support is very good."
"The solution is stable."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"I would like to see more storage, a better interface, and to move from mechanical disks."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"Feature-wise, with the InfoSight additions, there is a lot of the stuff missing in the intelligent interface. As they grow and push, a lot of it will not tie into Hyper-V."
"The tool needs improvement in the utilization report at the granular level."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"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."
"Generally, the management of the multiple systems that we have is really the only problem, always having to go to all these separate tools to manage everything."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"They should add new features to the product."
"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."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
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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