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 has good stability for our company."
"It simplifies storage."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence."
"We have been able to back up our data more frequently now that we have everything on flash. It responds a lot faster, so the IOPs are a lot faster."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"It is easy to manage and performs very well."
"We deployed 3PAR in the national and international markets. It's not bad, the solution."
"It has allowed us to set up a fully functioning disaster recovery site with replication, which we have been able to configure between our 3PAR systems."
"The solution offers good stability."
"The InfoSight feature helps us with troubleshooting problems in our environment."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"The solution is stable."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"The first array that they sent us was in some type of a factory mode. We didn't find that out until we loaded a bunch of data onto it, then we had to back it all off. We had to replace the array, which was sort of painful."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"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."
"There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered."
"Feature-wise, with the InfoSight additions, there is a lot of the stuff missing in the intelligent interface. As they grow and push, a lot of it will not tie into Hyper-V."
"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."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"The user interface could be improved."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
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 IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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