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."I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"The solution is stable."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"The solution’s deduplication functionality works great. We are getting about a 16:1 dedupe ratio on our VM workloads."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing)."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes."
"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."
"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."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"We are waiting for compression."
"We need longer names for our volumes. Now it's only 28 characters. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters."
"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."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"They should add new features to the product."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"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."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 97 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 VAST Data. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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