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's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"Very efficient storage"
"It runs. I don't have a problem with it. If it needs an update, I can do it in the middle of the day with nobody being the wiser. It is phenomenal in that respect. As a hospital, I get two hours every quarter to reboot things, so it is imperative that nothing goes down."
"It was the easiest SAN that I have ever set up."
"Our applications are now at least two to four times faster."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"Having moved over from a lefthand, which was seven or eight years old, there's a massive boost in performance. It has definitely improved the speed, the responsiveness, of all our applications."
"The solution is stable."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"I really like the new RMC (Recovery Manager Cental) software that was introduced with the 3.0 or 3.1 update. It allows us to use our data protector with our 3PAR and give it a nicer front-end than the SSMC did."
"The product is flexible."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"It is a scalable solution."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"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."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"An area of improvement for this solution is an increase in the bandwidth as well as an upgrade of the storage functionality and capabilities. The storage needs to be expandable for future-proofing."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"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 NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"The onsite techs have caused outages."
"The interface to manage it could be improved. I was looking at OneView. Something basic like that should be available with the 3PAR. OneView has all the bells and whistles, all the features, but I think something basic and similar to that should be come with the 3PAR, at least for monitoring managing it."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The user interface could be improved."
"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."
"They should add new features to the product."
"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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