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 console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"It has good stability for our company."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"Very efficient storage"
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has been stable."
"The technical support has been fantastic."
"We can quickly see performance per CPG and per LUN. You can drill right down to see actual performance to the virtual volumes themselves. That's really good."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"I am a system integrator, so we sell a lot of 3PAR storage to our customers. Our business has increased compared to previous days."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"It is easy to use and understand. It is also very stable."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"The product is flexible."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"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."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"We had a minor error when we were configuring this system, which initially detracted from its overall stability."
"The performance of the solution is not good anymore and the software is different from all the other types and is not compatible. There are more negative things at this moment than positive. This is why we are removing them all from our organization this year."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"In the next release, I would like them to make it a little easier to find where everything is in the new console. It now has the OneView look and sometimes I don't think the OneView look is enough. It's too different from the original console that was a separate system."
"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."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"The product must support more drives."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"They should add new features to the product."
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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