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 most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The performance is very good."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use and has good performance."
"I do not have to worry about cross systems talking to each other or multiple systems trying to interact with each other. Our entire vCenter infrastructure is one large stack, which is nice."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"With the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, we can grow as required."
"It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up."
"It has improved the ability of the executives to get proper insights."
"It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use, fully featured and has a great graphical user interface."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"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."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"You can use different protocols at the same time. Monitoring is also very easy in NetApp FAS Series. There is a free tool for monitoring."
"It is a scalable solution."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"Here in Algeria, we are facing a lot of trouble finding partners and getting support from HPE. There should be better support here in our country."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"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."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"The GUI interface could be improved. I have been having trouble with one issue in particular. If you look at the DC and DR, if there is a communication break and the link went down—so the data is not replicating from DC to DR—there is no way to find out how much data is ready for transmission. Only the size of the data that needs to be transferred after the link comes up. If the firewall link is down, there is no way of seeing how much data is waiting to be transferred. This is a weak point of 3PAR."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The product must support more drives."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"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."
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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