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."We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"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 initial setup was really straight forward."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"The compression features are good."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"We have had it for about two years and had zero problems with it."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"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."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"They should add AI-enabled dashboards to the solution."
"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."
"There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered."
"The new feature sets, like deduplication and compression, are complex to work with. I hope when I view the roadmap that they will be less complex."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"I would like the documentation easy to find. There is a lot of documentation, but sometimes it is hard to find. You have to do a lot of searching to find it."
"This product has come to the end of its lifecycle."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"Needs more SAN support."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"The biggest issue we face is parts delivery. There's no local warehouse in Myanmar, so if a customer encounters a technical problem like an IMEI issue, they have to wait a long time for replacement parts."
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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