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."It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days."
"It was the easiest SAN that I have ever set up."
"The Call Home feature is really a great feature, so I do not need to monitor the 3PAR. The 3PAR team is monitoring it and letting me know if there are any problems."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"The ease of management is its most valuable feature. It is so much easier to manage storage on a 3PAR array than anything that we have had before."
"We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding."
"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."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is not cheap."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"The price should be lower."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"The price of this solution should be lower."
"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 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."
"I want artificial intelligence. I don't want anybody from my team to touch it anymore. I want the AI to do everything."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users."
"We do not use Memory-Driven Flash in the old 3PAR. Perhaps we will use it in the new 3PAR. That is part of the reason why we are upgrading."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. There were a lot of different things that had to happen which was the reason why they had to send out the HPE engineers to help us."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The user interface could be improved."
"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."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"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."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 298 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 96 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 ExaGrid EX Series. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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