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."It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"Technical support is good."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"We can quickly see performance per CPG and per LUN. You can drill right down to see actual performance to the virtual volumes themselves. That's really good."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"The most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"The most valuable feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"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."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"The solution is easy to use."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"For us, the greatest aspect of the solution is the fact that it just runs. It is amazingly resilient. That's very important to us, because we are basically, with some exceptions, have a 24/7 operation."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"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."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"The price should be lower."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"I want artificial intelligence. I don't want anybody from my team to touch it anymore. I want the AI to do everything."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"The only drawback on it is that tech support seems really busy. We get a critical notification when an important patch comes out, but sometimes it's a month before we can get this critical piece on because they just don't have time on their schedules to do it sooner."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"The biggest issue we face is parts delivery. There's no local warehouse in Myanmar, so if a customer encounters a technical problem like an IMEI issue, they have to wait a long time for replacement parts."
"The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"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."
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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