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."We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"For virtualization, the failure rate is much less compared to traditional storage where you need more hard drives"
"All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform."
"I really like the new RMC (Recovery Manager Cental) software that was introduced with the 3.0 or 3.1 update. It allows us to use our data protector with our 3PAR and give it a nicer front-end than the SSMC did."
"You can have SSD drives, fast disk drives, and slower drives, redundancy between drives, and hot-swappable drives on the SSDs, the faster hard drives, and the slower drives."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"The most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"It is very flexible. It integrates well with the public cloud and other components, so everything can be API driven. Therefore, it is very easy to automate it."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"Fast Snapshots"
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"We are using a built-in solution in 3PAR. We are using All-Flash Storage, and there are some difficulties with it. HPE has now developed a new tool system to support All-Flash, and that's why we are changing our investment. They must increase its performance. I want unlimited support, which is very important for performance. I am not interested in spinning disks. HPE is developing new storage systems called Primera, but they must be developed more."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"We are waiting for compression."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. There were a lot of different things that had to happen which was the reason why they had to send out the HPE engineers to help us."
"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."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
"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."
"if it were easier for us to manage the product ourselves without having to get HPE to connect, because it sometimes it does take a bit to get the scheduling worked out with the HPE support. If it were simpler, then it might be easier for us to handle it ourselves."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"Needs more SAN support."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
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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