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."I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"Technical support is good."
"The first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"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."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"We use for our tier one and two apps, so they can do failover, synchronous replication."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"Previously, we were using EVA from HPE. When we moved to 3PAR, we noticed a reduction in footprint, reduced by more than 30%. We use the Adaptive Optimization, giving us a reduction in cost and with better performance."
"So far, we have yet to have a disk fail on either system, other than one I forced to fail when we first got the system in. So the reliability of the 3PAR system has been outstanding."
"This is a stable solution."
"I like the integration with VMware and the provisioning. We also use data compression but not for any of the critical applications."
"It runs. I don't have a problem with it. If it needs an update, I can do it in the middle of the day with nobody being the wiser. It is phenomenal in that respect. As a hospital, I get two hours every quarter to reboot things, so it is imperative that nothing goes down."
"The technical support has been fantastic."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"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."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"Anything new can be complex. There were some things in the initial deployment that I was not happy about. One of my directives was, "However, it's configured, ensure that it can never be overprovisioned." That one key thing was overlooked. This is why I had to have a support call last year, because it actually became overprovisioned and I had to move some stuff around."
"From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us."
"The tool needs improvement in the utilization report at the granular level."
"The performance of the solution is not good anymore and the software is different from all the other types and is not compatible. There are more negative things at this moment than positive. This is why we are removing them all from our organization this year."
"I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL."
"We are waiting for compression."
"The price is a little bit high."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"The user interface could be improved."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident 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 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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