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."Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"Our applications are now at least two to four times faster."
"The solution has improved our throughput by helping us keep up with the demand and acquisitions that we have been going through."
"The performance has been fantastic. It has not had many issues whatsoever, and what issues they do have, the support picks up on it quickly. They send us tickets saying that they are doing work without us even having to engage them."
"The new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly."
"Valuable features include the intuitiveness of the SAN itself, a lot of the built-in logic and functionality, the tiering that it uses to determine what type of disk is best for the various types of workloads, and the automation that is built in. It's also easy to manage."
"The support is really fast. There is very good support for 3PAR storage."
"Multi-tier storage was the primary reason that we bought it. I also love the interface that you use for administering it."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"Automation could be simplified."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"The solution is not cheap."
"I would like to see the reliability improve. While it has been a good product, the QA of the product could be done a little more thoroughly."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"As long as they can keep the solution stable, it will be good. Stability is very important to us."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"HP has several integration elements that work with other vendor storage products. I'd like to see a greater expansion on that so that a customer can do a more seamless migration from other vendor products."
"If HPE 3PAR could handle NAS and all things related to NAS, you would not need to have a mixture of different storages, storage boxes, one solution could fit all."
"The new feature sets, like deduplication and compression, are complex to work with. I hope when I view the roadmap that they will be less complex."
"We have issues with scalability because 3PAR has limited storage capacity, so we have to invest more after a while."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"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 user interface could be improved."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
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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