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 feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"Their support is the most valuable. The support that we are getting from HP Turkey is very good. This product is better than some of the other products in terms of reliability. It is very reliable."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform."
"The technical support has been fantastic."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's online upgrades."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"For us, the greatest aspect of the solution is the fact that it just runs. It is amazingly resilient. That's very important to us, because we are basically, with some exceptions, have a 24/7 operation."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"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."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"The configuration and flexibility should improve."
"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."
"...sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected."
"I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL."
"I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team."
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"The product must support more drives."
"Needs more SAN support."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
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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