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 is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"The solution has increased our performance by about 40 percent."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"The technical support is very good."
"It is reliable, and it seems like a solid product. It has been working well so far."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"The solution offers good stability."
"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."
"So far, we have yet to have a disk fail on either system, other than one I forced to fail when we first got the system in. So the reliability of the 3PAR system has been outstanding."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"The price could be better."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"The file functionality could be better."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"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."
"The management console could use some work. All the functionality is there, of course, but it can be hard to find some features or do certain tasks."
"I would like to see improvement in the product's scalability. As a partner, I had serious problems because of the competition from Dell EMC and Pure."
"3PAR has StoreOnce and replication. I would like it if they worked together. Or, if I had Nimble and put that either in DR or a primary cohesive management, but still use the cool features of 3PAR, that would be awesome."
"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."
"We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"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."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"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 one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
"The product must support more drives."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
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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