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."Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"I like the integration with VMware and the provisioning. We also use data compression but not for any of the critical applications."
"Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses."
"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 is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"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."
"The deduplication is pretty impressive because it will shrink. We also do some clones in addition to the snapshots, where we can have multiple clones. These reduce the actual written storage by as much as 50 percent."
"It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"It is very flexible. It integrates well with the public cloud and other components, so everything can be API driven. Therefore, it is very easy to automate it."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The solution is stable."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"We are seeing that there are some enhancements which are required in the SSMC console. There are some features that we do not see in the dashboard."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"Generally, the management of the multiple systems that we have is really the only problem, always having to go to all these separate tools to manage everything."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"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."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"Needs more SAN support."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
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, 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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