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."One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The technical support is very good."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"The predictive analytics, where we're getting notifications prior to a failure has been helpful."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"The solution is easy to use and very stable."
"It's advantageous in terms of the cost, in terms of the performance, and taking up less space."
"With the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, we can grow as required."
"The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment."
"The InfoSight feature helps us with troubleshooting problems in our environment."
"Proactive support. Before we notice that there's a problem in the storage, or any part, any hard disk, they already notify us, and within four hours, the product is delivered. Within the next hour after product delivery, the engineer is available to support me."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"Fast Snapshots"
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"The hard part with the initial setup was that we were on EMC VNX and trying to get those converted over into the HPE 3PAR, that process took awhile, along with scheduling downtime to get some of the physical stuff migrated over to the new device."
"HPE could improve by raising awareness when a new product is launched. They must think of ways to better serve and engage with their enterprise customers. HPE is selling enterprise products and mission-critical support."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"An area of improvement for this solution is an increase in the bandwidth as well as an upgrade of the storage functionality and capabilities. The storage needs to be expandable for future-proofing."
"They should add AI-enabled dashboards to the solution."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"The product must support more drives."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
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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