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."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"The scalability is good."
"Good performance because it's an all-flash system. Basically, our applications run faster."
"We went to an Active-Active data center, set it up to where both data centers are separate, but they act as one. We can have workloads at either side at any given time, and it is all based on the Peer Persistence architecture."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"There's a lot of good features. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is similar to Dell EMC. It is a high-speed system with automatic failover/failback, integrated with Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware. These are the main reason for choosing HPE 3PAR StoreServ in Denmark. We have a very good consulting service together with the product."
"If you can handle the IOPS, throughput is a natural byproduct. Usually, IOPS is where you are capped. HPE has done a great job in making sure that our IOP-intensive EMRs stay up and running. We have really good performance on them."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"This is a stable solution."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"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."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"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."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"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."
"There were a few goofy things with support where we were trying to do OS upgrades and HPE MyRoom failed. However, they would not get on WebEx because they are only allowed to get on HPE MyRoom."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"It's a very complex platform to manage and it's not cheap either. It doesn't really give us the level of flexibility we had for very, very small workloads."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"The initial setup was easy. However, we get stuck on preconditions. We were not aware of some of the preconditions."
"Scalability and management could be improved."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"Needs more SAN support."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"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."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"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."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 298 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 96 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 ExaGrid EX Series. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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