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 tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"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."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly."
"It's pretty stable and scalable. I think we've only had a couple of issues, three disk outages in six years."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"So far, we have yet to have a disk fail on either system, other than one I forced to fail when we first got the system in. So the reliability of the 3PAR system has been outstanding."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"Our applications are now at least two to four times faster."
"We're hosting virtual infrastructure on the 3PAR storage and it's been very good for that."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"We need longer names for our volumes. Now it's only 28 characters. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters."
"A lot of tasks, you have to manually set up. They need to already have them set up and working. Then, you can just go in and tweak them if you need to."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"I need flexibility for interoperability across multiple platforms, not just HPE."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"Needs more SAN support."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"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."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 298 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 96 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 ExaGrid EX Series. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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