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."Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us."
"We have our backups set up to replicate between two sites, then we also have our storage set up to replicate between two sites."
"It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick."
"This is a stable solution."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"It is easy to manage and performs very well."
"It has a really powerful tool to measure data, how it is working, the performance, and if we have any bottlenecks."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"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."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"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."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"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 solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"We would like to see the ability to not only be integrated with hybrid IT, but on-prem."
"From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us."
"The GUI interface could be improved. I have been having trouble with one issue in particular. If you look at the DC and DR, if there is a communication break and the link went down—so the data is not replicating from DC to DR—there is no way to find out how much data is ready for transmission. Only the size of the data that needs to be transferred after the link comes up. If the firewall link is down, there is no way of seeing how much data is waiting to be transferred. This is a weak point of 3PAR."
"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."
"Anything new can be complex. There were some things in the initial deployment that I was not happy about. One of my directives was, "However, it's configured, ensure that it can never be overprovisioned." That one key thing was overlooked. This is why I had to have a support call last year, because it actually became overprovisioned and I had to move some stuff around."
"I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"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."
"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."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 98 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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