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 is that maintenance is free."
"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."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The reliability is very good."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"Our applications are now at least two to four times faster."
"It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"Multi-tier storage was the primary reason that we bought it. I also love the interface that you use for administering it."
"If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us."
"We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data."
"We use all the features, but some of the most valuable are the replication, priority optimization, provisioning, and deduplication. There are a lot of good features in this product."
"I like that it's stable. This is the reason why we're using these products. We work in the broadcast market, and stability is very important. HPE has global services, and that's also important. Dell and HPE are some big companies, and their solutions are robust and stable."
"Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance"
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The support is very good."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"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."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"Sometimes the required upgrades have been a little bit involved: "You have to do this before you do this," and I want them to explain to me why. It's more work than it should be."
"I would like to see a little bit more integration from a cloud perspective. In this way, I would have some more flexibility to do more with data, how to store it, and where I have it."
"The cloud-based monitoring Infosight would be better if users are automatically enrolled in the cloud/group based on the configuration or information gathered or uploaded on the internet."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"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."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"I would like them to improve it so I can do firmware upgrades without downtime."
"Needs more SAN support."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"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 no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"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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