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."Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The initial setup was extremely simple and straightforward."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"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."
"We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"The performance has been fantastic. It has not had many issues whatsoever, and what issues they do have, the support picks up on it quickly. They send us tickets saying that they are doing work without us even having to engage them."
"HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good."
"For virtualization, the failure rate is much less compared to traditional storage where you need more hard drives"
"Better performance and lower costs."
"The product is flexible."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"The software layer has to improve."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ could have better integration into the cloud and converged infrastructure."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
"It's a very complex platform to manage and it's not cheap either. It doesn't really give us the level of flexibility we had for very, very small workloads."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"They should add new features to the product."
"The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"The product must support more drives."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 98 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 StorageWorks MSA, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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