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 solution offers amazing performance."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"It's actually very stable"
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"The solution has increased our performance by about 40 percent."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"It is a stable solution."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"The overall quality of the product is fantastic. Advanced Optimization is one of the best features I never thought I needed until I actually used it and saw it in action."
"It has helped with more than just serving data, but also with recovery."
"The predictive analytics, where we're getting notifications prior to a failure has been helpful."
"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"The solution is stable."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"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."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"I would like to see compatibility with NVMe."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"Extending is not a problem, scalability is okay. But once you buy additional box of disks, you have to wait for HPE to contact you with their plan for implementation, for connecting, and it can take several weeks. So, you have the box and you have to wait for several weeks to actually implement it."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"The onsite techs have caused outages."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
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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