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 is the SAN backbone for our company."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"Whatever failures you have, there is no single point of failure. So, any failure, you get an alert, you have time, you plan the fix, the replacement, and so on. So your operations are intact."
"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."
"HPE 3PAR has all the common storage features like cell provisioning and deduplication. Usually the solution is chosen by the customer as they have a preference, or the setup is already in their environment."
"It's a really stable solution. We have no problems with the customer, no negative feedback from them on this."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"It was straightforward, simple, and easy to set up, along with the OneView tools, for managing both compute and storage."
"NAS stability"
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"The best feature is its ONTAP product line for Ransomware protection. It also has features for file storage and block storage. The solution is stable. We've had no issues with it. The tool is scalable and meets our requirements. The technical support and the supporting partner are great. The initial setup is straightforward. It is very easy to maintain the product. The feature set is excellent. I recommend the solution."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"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."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The tool has low storage and low performance. This can be solved by adding more disco to the solution. The product’s pricing is also suited for enterprise businesses rather than smaller ones.I would like to see better performance, UI, and compatibility with other products in future releases."
"I give it an eight because of the support, that I can't get support in my country. This is the worst part. Support cannot be sold until we are out of the sanctions."
"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 would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"We need additional enhancements to InfoSight, especially from a VM standpoint. Today, we can see in the Azure VM performance stats in 3PAR, but it is so huge, we can't just drill down on each and every VM and look at its performance."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"The user interface could be improved."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
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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