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."The scalability is good."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"It worked flawlessly."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"The solution is easy to use and very stable."
"The technical support is good."
"We use all the features, but some of the most valuable are the replication, priority optimization, provisioning, and deduplication. There are a lot of good features in this product."
"We deployed 3PAR in the national and international markets. It's not bad, the solution."
"The most valuable feature of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is its storage capabilities."
"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."
"HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"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 one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"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."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"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."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"They should add AI-enabled dashboards to the solution."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"Integration with some cloud services would be nice... We would like to be able to provision from the 3PAR and decide whether or not we are going to provision onsite or the cloud."
"In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users."
"I want artificial intelligence. I don't want anybody from my team to touch it anymore. I want the AI to do everything."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"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."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"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."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"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."
"They should add new features to the product."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
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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