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's extremely stable and has good performance."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"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."
"It's actually very stable"
"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."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick."
"The ease of management is its most valuable feature. It is so much easier to manage storage on a 3PAR array than anything that we have had before."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses."
"The solution’s deduplication functionality works great. We are getting about a 16:1 dedupe ratio on our VM workloads."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"NAS stability"
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"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."
"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."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Automation could be simplified."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"The interface to manage it could be improved. I was looking at OneView. Something basic like that should be available with the 3PAR. OneView has all the bells and whistles, all the features, but I think something basic and similar to that should be come with the 3PAR, at least for monitoring managing it."
"Although we experienced malfunctions where a virus was running and it failed."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"We have had a few issues with it. We had our virtual environment lock up a few times on storage-based things. We think we have it sorted out, but maybe it came down to a configuration issue on it."
"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."
"We do not use Memory-Driven Flash in the old 3PAR. Perhaps we will use it in the new 3PAR. That is part of the reason why we are upgrading."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 298 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 96 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 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 ExaGrid EX Series. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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