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."Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"If you can handle the IOPS, throughput is a natural byproduct. Usually, IOPS is where you are capped. HPE has done a great job in making sure that our IOP-intensive EMRs stay up and running. We have really good performance on them."
"It is a rugged, performance system; it is trouble-free and a workhorse."
"I like that 3PAR can remake the disk online. That's one of the best features because when we first started, that was the best. The team provisioning feature was also a good one. Those features are the best for me, provisioning and online optimization, and the tier you can have for storage."
"The predictive analytics, where we're getting notifications prior to a failure has been helpful."
"It is easy to use and understand. It is also very stable."
"Fast Snapshots"
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"It is a bit expensive."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
"We need additional enhancements to InfoSight, especially from a VM standpoint. Today, we can see in the Azure VM performance stats in 3PAR, but it is so huge, we can't just drill down on each and every VM and look at its performance."
"I would like to see more flexibility with the cloud. I've actually just been in a presentation about it, here at HPE Discover 2018, so those features are coming."
"The only drawback on it is that tech support seems really busy. We get a critical notification when an important patch comes out, but sometimes it's a month before we can get this critical piece on because they just don't have time on their schedules to do it sooner."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"They should add new features to the product."
"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."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
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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