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."Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The technical support is very good."
"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."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"It allows us to cohost as needed. We are able to put more systems on one data storage system and it is still able to deliver the availability and speed that we need it to deliver."
"They are using Ansible to automate the provisioning, so that simplifies the day-to-day operations."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"From a single panel, I can see the performance of my service, my network, and my storage."
"The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment."
"It has helped with more than just serving data, but also with recovery."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"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."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"The product is flexible."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"The solution could be improved in regard to space reclamation by adding automation."
"We have had some bad issues on stability."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"I would like the documentation easy to find. There is a lot of documentation, but sometimes it is hard to find. You have to do a lot of searching to find it."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"The WAFL is slow."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
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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