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."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"The solution is very reliable."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"We're using the all-flash arrays and, with the deduplication and compression, it just really fits our virtualization environment very well."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"It was the easiest SAN that I have ever set up."
"If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us."
"It was straightforward, simple, and easy to set up, along with the OneView tools, for managing both compute and storage."
"Tech support is great, and that is for any of their team who has ever worked with us. They are willing and committed to making sure the customer is treated the way we need to be."
"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."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"One of the most valuable features offered is double-parity RAID, which guarantees that your data will stay intact. We're also able to provision storage and monitor which ones are really consuming storage."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"The cloud-based monitoring Infosight would be better if users are automatically enrolled in the cloud/group based on the configuration or information gathered or uploaded on the internet."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"Here in Algeria, we are facing a lot of trouble finding partners and getting support from HPE. There should be better support here in our country."
"We have had a few issues with it. We had our virtual environment lock up a few times on storage-based things. We think we have it sorted out, but maybe it came down to a configuration issue on it."
"The product is quite expensive."
"Its price is a bit high for adding another tree."
"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."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"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."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"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."
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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