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."Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"We're using the all-flash arrays and, with the deduplication and compression, it just really fits our virtualization environment very well."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance"
"This solution has allowed for massive performance acceleration of all workloads and massively increased availability (with peer persistence/transparent failover feature)."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"We deployed 3PAR in the national and international markets. It's not bad, the solution."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"Fast Snapshots"
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"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."
"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."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"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."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ could have better integration into the cloud and converged infrastructure."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"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."
"I would like to see a faster Ethernet connection. Right now, it is 10G. If they could do multiple hundred gigs to speed up the transfer from the array to the servers, that would be good. We are trying to get away from Fibre Channel."
"We have had some bad issues on stability."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"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."
"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."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"The user interface could be improved."
"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."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
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, 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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