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."Technical support is good."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"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 allows us to cohost as needed. We are able to put more systems on one data storage system and it is still able to deliver the availability and speed that we need it to deliver."
"The chunklet technology is the main benefit out of 3PAR. The way it subdivides. It is using more logic to subdivide the drives into smaller pieces."
"We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers."
"It has helped a lot for times when our customers do DR testing. Instead of having to spin down and spin up, I can do it live and seamless. I do not have to schedule downtime with an organization."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"The stability is what we consider to be the best feature it provides. The stability of this solution is what conquers us, every day."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"Fast Snapshots"
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"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 input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"The product is flexible."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"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."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"Automation could be simplified."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"The price is a little bit high."
"This solution is becoming dated."
"The hard part with the initial setup was that we were on EMC VNX and trying to get those converted over into the HPE 3PAR, that process took awhile, along with scheduling downtime to get some of the physical stuff migrated over to the new device."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"With 3PAR, there is remote copy software which isn't very good."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"As long as they can keep the solution stable, it will be good. Stability is very important to us."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"Needs more SAN support."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 12 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 19 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "Reliable with a good user interface and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". 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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