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 reliability is very good."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us."
"Being able to provision drives on demand, as opposed to populating a whole stack of drives and not using them. In the latter scenario, you are locking your money in, you don't get a return on investment. On the fly, you can build up your storage as needed, so that's a very good feature."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use, fully featured and has a great graphical user interface."
"I like the speed capabilities that it provides. The deduplication features definitely have some huge potential. The latest firmware, where they've enabled compression for workloads that aren't very good for deduplication, I can definitely see huge potential there."
"In the deployment of virtual servers, I can have a new VM up and running in 15 minutes, run the patches, then done. I routinely fire up base images that I have for my servers: Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. I routinely fire those base images up and do all the updates, then prep them again for cloning. With 3PAR, we definitely have the performance to do that. Those images I do keep on SSD just to have that performance to deploy a new VM."
"Its snapshot capability is the most valuable feature, because replicate our databases from production to nonproduction for development. This allows us to do it very quickly."
"Our applications are now at least two to four times faster."
"The reliability. We're able to replicate our array to our DR site with minimal work. It's just turn it on and we're ready to go. It reduces risk for the business."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"The price should be lower."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"The price could be better."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"We have had some challenges in the Arabic implementation and in migration, but for daily work, it's fine."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
"I would like to see a faster Ethernet connection. Right now, it is 10G. If they could do multiple hundred gigs to speed up the transfer from the array to the servers, that would be good. We are trying to get away from Fibre Channel."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"It's a very complex platform to manage and it's not cheap either. It doesn't really give us the level of flexibility we had for very, very small workloads."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"The user interface could be improved."
"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."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
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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