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 features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"The technical support is very good."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"It was straightforward, simple, and easy to set up, along with the OneView tools, for managing both compute and storage."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"Being able to provision drives on demand, as opposed to populating a whole stack of drives and not using them. In the latter scenario, you are locking your money in, you don't get a return on investment. On the fly, you can build up your storage as needed, so that's a very good feature."
"I am a system integrator, so we sell a lot of 3PAR storage to our customers. Our business has increased compared to previous days."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing)."
"I think the storage is very good, the way it stores, the thin provisioning it provides, and the data protection. And it's easy to deploy in any environment. We are using VMware. So for me, it's a right click and it's deployed. We can configure and create LUNS very easily with 3PAR management, and the interface is very user-friendly. Easily understandable."
"It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up."
"We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"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."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users."
"The interface could be improved to match the system."
"The price is a little bit high."
"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."
"Extending is not a problem, scalability is okay. But once you buy additional box of disks, you have to wait for HPE to contact you with their plan for implementation, for connecting, and it can take several weeks. So, you have the box and you have to wait for several weeks to actually implement it."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"Generally, the management of the multiple systems that we have is really the only problem, always having to go to all these separate tools to manage everything."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
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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