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 most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"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."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"Having moved over from a lefthand, which was seven or eight years old, there's a massive boost in performance. It has definitely improved the speed, the responsiveness, of all our applications."
"When we started using 3PAR what we liked was the simplicity of the product. We needed a higher performance storage and, in our support model, we needed to keep the simplicity of the storage architecture, keep it as clean and as manageable as we could."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing)."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"The solution is stable."
"You can scale it out almost indefinitely."
"I like that 3PAR can remake the disk online. That's one of the best features because when we first started, that was the best. The team provisioning feature was also a good one. Those features are the best for me, provisioning and online optimization, and the tier you can have for storage."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"The support is very good."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"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."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"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."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"The GUI interface could be improved. I have been having trouble with one issue in particular. If you look at the DC and DR, if there is a communication break and the link went down—so the data is not replicating from DC to DR—there is no way to find out how much data is ready for transmission. Only the size of the data that needs to be transferred after the link comes up. If the firewall link is down, there is no way of seeing how much data is waiting to be transferred. This is a weak point of 3PAR."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"The WAFL is slow."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"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."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
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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