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 support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"The performance has been fantastic. It has not had many issues whatsoever, and what issues they do have, the support picks up on it quickly. They send us tickets saying that they are doing work without us even having to engage them."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"Technical support for both 3PAR and Dell EMC in my country, Iran, is very difficult because we are under sanctions."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"The solution is stable."
"It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up."
"Scalability is incredible. We have a single server cabinet today, but we can grow it to as many cabinets as we need."
"I like the integration with VMware and the provisioning. We also use data compression but not for any of the critical applications."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"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 product is flexible."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"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."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"It needs to improve its price."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"I would like an easier user interface and setup to help with deployment. There were many areas of the setup where I was like, “Why don't we do it this way?” Therefore, some of the things in the user interface could have been more refined, so you don't have to click in 5000 different places to accomplish one goal. Less clicks means more efficiency."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"Extending is not a problem, scalability is okay. But once you buy additional box of disks, you have to wait for HPE to contact you with their plan for implementation, for connecting, and it can take several weeks. So, you have the box and you have to wait for several weeks to actually implement it."
"If HPE 3PAR could handle NAS and all things related to NAS, you would not need to have a mixture of different storages, storage boxes, one solution could fit all."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"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."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
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, 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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