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 technical support is very good."
"The reliability is very good."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The deduplication is pretty impressive because it will shrink. We also do some clones in addition to the snapshots, where we can have multiple clones. These reduce the actual written storage by as much as 50 percent."
"We're hosting virtual infrastructure on the 3PAR storage and it's been very good for that."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use and has good performance."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"It all works in concert using Recovery Manager Central (RMC). HPE coordinates it all, so it is more of a solution instead of products trying to do things together."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"The solution’s deduplication functionality works great. We are getting about a 16:1 dedupe ratio on our VM workloads."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"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."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"It was not proactive communication."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"We are waiting for compression."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
"Sadly, the support from HPE has not been all that great. It is tough to get a tech out or get a response from some of the techs that we have."
"I would like the documentation easy to find. There is a lot of documentation, but sometimes it is hard to find. You have to do a lot of searching to find it."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has limited flexibility in building replication solutions. There are limitations to the number of IOPS the system can do. It's not bad as it is doing its job. However, for the application, if you need a toolbox, you can build everything concerning periodic replication modes of synchronous or asynchronous three-site, four-site, with supported cascading which requires you to buy an IBM product. It also takes a few hours to one day to upgrade the system and sometimes; it takes more time because, in some HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20000 Storage, you have an eight-node system. If you do an upgrade, you do it node by node and every node might take more than an hour."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The biggest issue we face is parts delivery. There's no local warehouse in Myanmar, so if a customer encounters a technical problem like an IMEI issue, they have to wait a long time for replacement parts."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
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 IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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