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."Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"It has been very stable. We've had very minor issues, but I've loved how HPE is proactive on letting us know. Usually, they let us know before we notice it ourselves and they already have a solution for us. It has been great that way."
"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."
"There are a lot of screens for easy management where you can change some settings. But after a few years, the important settings were better after an upgrade, and all the vendors have other ways to upgrade their systems."
"From a single panel, I can see the performance of my service, my network, and my storage."
"We never had a blackout and we have never been offline."
"The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us."
"It has improved uptime, as well as speed to delivery."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"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."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"NAS stability"
"The solution is stable."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"With 3PAR, there is remote copy software which isn't very good."
"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."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"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."
"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."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"They should add new features to the product."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
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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