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 availability and ease of use are the big features."
"It worked flawlessly."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The scalability is good."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment."
"We deployed 3PAR in the national and international markets. It's not bad, the solution."
"The intelligence around the solution is good."
"They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes."
"The technical support has been fantastic."
"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."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"For us, the greatest aspect of the solution is the fact that it just runs. It is amazingly resilient. That's very important to us, because we are basically, with some exceptions, have a 24/7 operation."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"Upgrades on them are a bit tricky. For us to do a head swap on one is a full outer joiner storage frame, which is obviously not that easy to do in a production environment."
"3PAR has StoreOnce and replication. I would like it if they worked together. Or, if I had Nimble and put that either in DR or a primary cohesive management, but still use the cool features of 3PAR, that would be awesome."
"The price is a little bit high."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"This product has come to the end of its lifecycle."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"The product must support more drives."
"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."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"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."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
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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