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 stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Support has been helpful."
"Technical support is good."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"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."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"It has improved the ability of the executives to get proper insights."
"I am impressed with the product's online upgrades."
"They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"The speed is very good."
"The technical support is very good."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"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."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"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 most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"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."
"Extending is not a problem, scalability is okay. But once you buy additional box of disks, you have to wait for HPE to contact you with their plan for implementation, for connecting, and it can take several weeks. So, you have the box and you have to wait for several weeks to actually implement it."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"This solution is becoming dated."
"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."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"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."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"The product must support more drives."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
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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