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."It worked flawlessly."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"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 solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"The most valuable feature of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is its online upgrades."
"It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment."
"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."
"The solution offers good stability."
"We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data."
"Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"One of the most valuable features offered is double-parity RAID, which guarantees that your data will stay intact. We're also able to provision storage and monitor which ones are really consuming storage."
"The support is very good."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"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."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"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."
"From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us."
"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."
"We need longer names for our volumes. Now it's only 28 characters. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters."
"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."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"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."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
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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